All year our students have been working on their own alphabet books. We practice our letter sounds, identifying the beginning sounds of words, identifying objects, tracing/writing, cutting, creating an object that begins with each letter and following directions. Today we finished the last letter of the alphabet! The students each chose their favorite page from the book they created. Tomorrow we will glue their picture into the book and it is ready to go home. I am so proud of their hard work!
We had a fantastic trip over to Heritage today! I am so proud of all the students! We took the van over, took a tour of the whole school, visited the ILC, OT, PT and Speech rooms, participated in Adapted Physical Education and morning meeting in Mrs. Couture's classroom.
The past couple weeks we have been learning all about plants. We learned about the parts of a plant, what plants need to grow, plant vocabulary, and the life cycle of plant. We wrote about what we see in gardens, painted paper plate flowers, made flowers in a garden with water colors, created a poem about flowers, built flowers and planted seeds.
This week we released our butterflies! We finished our Butterfly observation journal after we released them. The children worked so hard creating their journal through each stage we observed. They came out awesome!
We practiced letter identification, letter sounds, counting and 1:1 correspondence when we used Bee-Bots this week. This morning the weather was perfect for an outdoor scavenger hunt! The past few weeks have gone by so quickly! We have been learning about dinosaurs, farm animals and watching our classroom caterpillars transform! We now have 3 butterflies in the room and are looking forward to releasing them next weekend in the beautiful weather!
During dinosaur week we made our own dinosaurs, created fossils, painted dinosaurs with legs, built volcanos and even dug dinosaurs out of eggs. During farm week we made a tractor, wrote about the tractor, used ducks to create math facts, and explored with pigs in "mud." We have been observing our caterpillars, writing about what we see and drawing pictures. We have had so much fun with our rainbow and St. Patrick's Day activities this week! We made rainbows in a variety of ways using yarn, paint, and paper. We created our own rainbow crayons, read books about clovers, counted gold coins, sorted lucky charms and graphed them. We dyed vinegar and used pipets to see what would happen when we put it in baking soda. This morning when the students came for morning group they found rocks that the leprechaun had left in our room. We put them in baking soda and found gold coins inside!
Last week our theme was Groceries- we worked on measurement using different grocery items, sorted by food groups, practiced counting with food items, followed directions by making sandwiches, and created a bag of groceries with items that we like to eat.
This week we have been learning about weather. We created a thunderstorm collage, did a science experiment to make a storm in a cup, sorted activities/clothing based on weather, read It Looks Like Spilt Milk, created our own cloud like in the story, used the smartboard for math activities and made our own weather books. This week we have enjoyed activities themed around Valentine's day and friendship. Some of the activities we enjoyed were lacing, sorting/graphing candy hearts, creating patterns with beads, painting a heart with the wheels of cars in paint, feeding our Valentine's day monster candy hearts (to practice number identification, rote counting, 1:1 correspondence, comparing numbers) and using the smart board for boom cards related to CVC words, beginning sounds, counting, and WH questions.
Some our adventures from the past couple of weeks have included learning to play Don't Break The Ice, an obstacle course down our whole hallway, coloring our own rice to fill our sensory table, using the smartboard for a variety of community helper activities and transportation crafts with writing simple sentences.
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