It was All About Me week this week. We started our ME BAG sharing. It was great to see some of the things that are important to each child and what they like to do. Any sort of show and tell is always exciting, especially when you also get to be the leader of the line that day! The leader was also responsible for helping to set the table at eating times and moving the arrow from activity to activity on the visual schedule.
As a part of our All About Me theme we had many conversations about how we are all unique and that is wonderful! We compared how many people lived at each of our homes, how many siblings we have, and how many moms and dads we have. We read books about and talked about different types of families and how not everyone’s family make-up is the same. The kids worked hard making their own family photo house out of popsicle sticks and decorated them with gems, feathers and yarn.
Because everyone is unique we all have different fingerprints as well. The kids used magnifying glasses to see the differences in everyone’s fingerprints. Using their fingerprints/thumbprints, they made and represented numbers with in ink. We also baked thumbprint cookies.
The theme-based books we read this week were:
-It’s Okay to Be Different by Todd Parr
-Be Who You Are by Todd Parr
-The Family Book by Todd Parr
-What do you love about you? By Karen Lechett
-Families Families Families by Suzanne and Max Lang
We started out letter learning this week, with the letters L and F. Focusing on letter recognition and building letters before we try writing. We start with the letters that are easiest to write/build because they have straight vertical or horizontal lines. Many children have the letter L in their names so we compared names and counted how many Ls, if any, that each child had. We also listened to letter learning songs for words that start with each of the letters L and F. The kids did a great job practicing what the sounds of each letter make.
Some of the kids worked with Mat Man this week. Mat Man teaches skills such as body awareness, drawing & pre-writing, and counting.
The kids also did many things outside of our theme including: Lots of Lego, puddle jumping, yoga, working with shapes to build pictures (this is great for counting, spacial awareness and shape recognition), enjoyed the beauty of nature with all the of colourful leaves and butterflies, and there was a lot of work being done on a very tall tower. There was a lot of great teamwork and problem solving happening. They had many trial and error moments until they realized that the tower kept falling over because it was too skinny without a base to support it.
As a part of our All About Me theme we had many conversations about how we are all unique and that is wonderful! We compared how many people lived at each of our homes, how many siblings we have, and how many moms and dads we have. We read books about and talked about different types of families and how not everyone’s family make-up is the same. The kids worked hard making their own family photo house out of popsicle sticks and decorated them with gems, feathers and yarn.
Because everyone is unique we all have different fingerprints as well. The kids used magnifying glasses to see the differences in everyone’s fingerprints. Using their fingerprints/thumbprints, they made and represented numbers with in ink. We also baked thumbprint cookies.
The theme-based books we read this week were:
-It’s Okay to Be Different by Todd Parr
-Be Who You Are by Todd Parr
-The Family Book by Todd Parr
-What do you love about you? By Karen Lechett
-Families Families Families by Suzanne and Max Lang
We started out letter learning this week, with the letters L and F. Focusing on letter recognition and building letters before we try writing. We start with the letters that are easiest to write/build because they have straight vertical or horizontal lines. Many children have the letter L in their names so we compared names and counted how many Ls, if any, that each child had. We also listened to letter learning songs for words that start with each of the letters L and F. The kids did a great job practicing what the sounds of each letter make.
Some of the kids worked with Mat Man this week. Mat Man teaches skills such as body awareness, drawing & pre-writing, and counting.
The kids also did many things outside of our theme including: Lots of Lego, puddle jumping, yoga, working with shapes to build pictures (this is great for counting, spacial awareness and shape recognition), enjoyed the beauty of nature with all the of colourful leaves and butterflies, and there was a lot of work being done on a very tall tower. There was a lot of great teamwork and problem solving happening. They had many trial and error moments until they realized that the tower kept falling over because it was too skinny without a base to support it.
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