Our theme for the second week of December was "Candyland" and we focused on the letter Ll, the number 9 and the color red.
The Berenstain Bears: Too Much Junk Food by Stan and Jan Berenstain
The Very Hungry Caterpillar by Eric Carle
L,M,N,O Peas by Keith Baker
Our question of the week was "What is your favorite thing about school?" Everyone pretty much had an answer right away... it was great!
For our theme of the week, we did some "sweet" activities.
We counted and compared candy canes. I had one regular size candy cane and the kids had to estimate how many mini candy canes would equal the height of the regular one.
We wrote a recipe for hot chocolate, made it and then drank it. Delicious!
It does not really go along with our theme of the week, but to get ready for the holidays we decorated snowflakes with puffy paint for a classroom mural. I pre-cut the snowflakes out of poster board and painted a simple background of snow and evergreens. The kids colored their snowflake however they wanted and then added the puffy paint. We had some left from another project, so i used store bought paint, but I did find a recipe that someday soon I would like to try.
Our director purchased different kinds of ornaments for each classroom from Oriental Trading, we got these cute snowman snowflake ornaments. The kids and I put these together, and then I had each of them give me a blue hand print that I glues onto the backs of the snowflakes. These will be the kids' gifts to give to their parents. Next week we're doing a really cool project for the wrapping!
We talked about the color red, and we sang "We Love Red."
"We love red, we love red,
That's what we said, that's what we said.
Apples and cherries, oh me, oh my,
Tomatoes to bake on a pizza pie.
Red is the color and that is why,
We love red."
When we focus on a color I love to do "color hunts" in our classroom.
Each child takes a turn to walk
around the classroom and bring back
something that they found that is red. The tricky thing is that they
have to bring different things, no duplicates allowed! Here is what we
found for the color red.
We made red collages with red paint, feathers, tissue paper and glitter. (No picture, sorry!)
When we worked on our number activities, we practiced writing the number and word for the number 9. (This actually went home for practice. We had a snowy day that day.)
I
made these worksheets that reinforces the one to one concept. The kids
practice writing the number and have to color a square for each picture
that they see. (This actually went home for practice. We had a snowy day that day.)
For our letter activities, we used our handwriting sheet for the letter Ll from this book. (This actually went home for practice. We had a snowy day that day.)
We also did this worksheet that helps work on letter recognition that I got from this book.
The students also wrote in their journals for the letter L.
We turned a L into an Lion! This book is great.
We made a short book all about "Lizard's Lollipops" that I got from this Mailbox book.
We leaped every time I called out a word that started with an "L". This was a fun one to combine listening for letter sounds and physical activity all in one.
For our alphabet wall we made leaves with tissue paper.
Here are the words we came up with this week!
Up next week: "Merry Christmas," the letter Mm, number 10 and color green.
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