This week we talked about Families, the letter F, and triangles.
For the family theme, we read the book "Families Are Different," and talked about how our families are different but still all special. The kids made their families using popsicle sticks, yarn, construction paper, and googly eyes. They all seemed to really enjoy making and talking about their families! we also read "Are You My Mother?" and colored cranes and birds from the story, we read "I Go With My Family to Grandma's," and "I Love You Always and Forever." We made our own "family trees" and made handprints and talked about why we love our families.
For the letter F this week we met Frank the Frog and traced the F/f's on his stomach. We read a story about the letter F, looked for F's in the books that we were reading, traced the letter F on strips of paper, and practiced writing an uppercase F on the board. We also wrote F's and then glued yarn to it, and also glued triangles to a big letter F.
For triangles we met Terri the Triangle and counted all her sides and then all her corners. We sang a song about triangles, practiced cutting them, sat in a big triangle on the carpet. We also got to make a triangle by rolling a ball of yarn to each other to make one big triangle. We practiced sorting shapes and finding triangles. On Thursday for art we painted construction paper with vinegar and stuck tissue paper triangles on it. After it dried, we pulled the tissue paper off and the triangle shape stayed on the paper. They also made triangle fish, by gluing different shaped triangles together to make a fish.
We also went "fishing" in class, we took turns to see what we could catch (circle, square, triangle, F, or S) and then showed and told the class what we caught.
Next week we'll be talking about the color yellow, the letter Y, and the theme "My House."
Also the Feelings book that we made from last week I will start sending home with one child for a week at a time. When it's your child's turn to have it, just make sure you send it back by Friday so we can send it out again on the following Monday. See you all next week!
Email or call me if you have any questions about anything.
Stephanie Ray
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