Greetings, I hope everyone has transitioned back into the school routine. This week, we are continuing to learn about what people do in the snow. We have read The Snowy Day, The Jacket I Wear in the Snow, Snow, No Two Alike, A Perfect Day and When it Starts to Snow. We will be graphing our favorite snowy day activities. We have been exploring snow through our insta- snow in the sensory table. This is “fake snow” is a polyacrylate that students helped make to play with in the classroom. It looks and feels like real snow! We also have been decorating snowflakes at the light table. The snowflakes are microscopic photographs of real snowflakes that the students can explore and decorate. Questions they can explore through this area: “How many sides does a snow flake have?”, “Do they look the same or similar? And How so”, “What do you notice about the snowflakes shape?”. We have completed some great art activities based around snow. One activity we finished last week included the main character (Peter) from the classic tale The Snow Day. Students painted with the snow paint used the book to see what types of tracks Peter made in the snow. After referencing the book, they created one type of track on their picture. This is a great way to discuss, recall and interact with literature! Students also created snowmen by using the letter of their name. Students first counted how many letter are in their name. Counted out the snowballs and then wrote their letters on the snowballs. They then glued them on and decorated them. This a great way to work on 1:1 correspondence and letter recognition. This week at small groups, we will be exploring and creating shapes. We will discuss sides, lines, curves and angles through hands on exploration. We will also be identifying what the main character in the Snowy Day, heard, saw and felt. Our letter of the week is U. Please send in your U pictures no later than Thursday. We also have started a “Good Citizen of the Day” board in the room. We have been talking about what it means to be kind and how to be a good citizen in the classroom. Each day, students are encouraged to look for good citizenship around them (such as: a friend helping them get their coat on, someone inviting them to play, cleaning extra well in the classroom….ect). They then tell the class how their peer was helpful and we will add their name and what they did to the board. This is a great way to encourage kind behavior and to help build good citizens of the w orld! Have a wonderful week! Mandi Heiser [email protected]
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AuthorMandi Heiser is a Preschool teacher at William H. Ray Elementary in Hyde Park. Categories |