The Story of Ferdinand by Munro Leaf
Stellaluna by Janell Cannon
The Very Hungry Caterpillar by Eric Carle
Brave Horace by Holly Keller
Our question of the week was "What is something that you are really good at?"
The shape of the week: circle was fun to talk about. At our morning meetings,
we would talk about the shape and things in real life that are the circle shape.
We also practiced drawing circles in the air. The children worked
on their fine motor skills by tracing circles, and reviewing our square shape from last week. I found these worksheets
on Kidzone.
The children also worked on their circle recognition. I got this page from The Original Summer Bridge Activities, for PreK-K.
Each child told me things that made them happy or made them smile, and I scribed it onto their Happy Card. (That's whee I got the idea!) Then I painted smiley faces on their hands and they made hand prints.
We talked about being sad while we were making watercolor relief paintings. With white crayon, the children drew sad faces all over their paper. Then they used blue watercolor paint to make it appear. They were thrilled with the "magic".
The children drew 4 different 'feeling' faces on cut out circles and glued them onto a strip of black paper. while they made the project we talked about why we think our faces make certain expressions when we have different feelings.
We also did some yoga that helped us talk about being calm when we're upset or angry.
I created envelope games for each letter of the alphabet. I adapted them from activities from Mailbox Letter of the Week projects, both book one and two. The children had to load the boat with all the "B" cargo. Everything else had to be left behind for other ships.
The children turned a capital letter B into an bee. I got the idea from the book Alphabet and Counting from Twin Sister Productions. They give tips for how to make it a glue and paste projects, but I like to give them crayons and the challenge to add the parts of the animal to the letter. It opens up room for more conversation about the shape of the letter AND the features of the animal.
We practice and work on our handwriting for each letter as well. The Original Summer Bridge Activities, for PreK-K has
great handwriting practice sheets. The kids trace and write the letters
and then have a little phonics practice at the bottom.
From the book Alphabet, Colors, Numbers and Shapes,
the kids practice letter recognition AND direction following. Some
weeks certain letters have to be colored specifically and sometimes it's
up to them. I love these!
Each
child has a journal that they write in every week. When we focus on a
letter, they write for that letter. On shorter weeks and during our
review later in the year, they write to the theme. This is such a great
way to get children excited about writing and reading. I start the children out by
tracing, and once they are comfortable and controlling the crayon well,
they move onto copying.
I
made a cube of cardboard and glued pictures of "B" things one each
side. The children say "Bumble bee, Bumble bee, what do I see.... I see a
____ looking at me!" They roll the cube and fill in the blank. This idea came
from a Mailbox activity book, and let me tell you, it was a hit!! They
loved it!
I gave the children a square of brown paper, a strip of black paper, scissors, crayons and a blank white paper. I then gave them the task of creating a boat.. and they blew me away! This is one of my favorite kinds of projects to do because it is completely up to the child for how to make their boat, the kind of scene, etc.
I gave the children a square of brown paper, a strip of black paper, scissors, crayons and a blank white paper. I then gave them the task of creating a boat.. and they blew me away! This is one of my favorite kinds of projects to do because it is completely up to the child for how to make their boat, the kind of scene, etc.
During the week we made a list of words that begin with the letter b. Here is what we thought of!
We celebrated a birthday this week!
and we celebrated Rosh Hashana with some apples and honey to bring in a "sweet new year."
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