Our Chinese New Year celebrations ended of just as good as they started. We celebrated our last day by making our own good fortune packets, and celebrating a very special 4th birthday. Birthdays are always a fun time; everyone loves baking and eating cupcakes. Not only is baking fun but it teaches us to read and count numbers as we measure, be patient while others have turns mixing ingredients and see what happens when certain ingredients are mixed together.
Show and Tell continues to excite everyone! After the Show and Tell has been shared, we all have the opportunity to ask a question and give a comment about the object shown, to gain a better understanding of why a particular object is so special. We are starting to comprehend the difference between a question and a comment. It is nice to hear that the questions asked are becoming more considered and thoughtful.
Valentine’s Day is all about being thoughtful and loving towards others, so we talked about the meaning of Valentine’s Day; particularly how we can show love to our friends and family. There were many great ideas including sharing and using kind words…even making breakfast together. We started off our Valentine’s celebrations by working as a team to hunt down all the tiny hidden hearts. The emphasis was not to find more hearts than everyone else, but to work together to find the hearts and to solve clues to find the tricky ones. Once the hearts were found (we were always amazed at how many hearts we continued to find throughout the day, after our hunt was over! I’m sure there are still some lingering around.) each of us lined up our hearts, counted them, and then we compared the amounts we had; working on how to recognize more/less and most/least. We had so much fun with this game and wanted to play it every day this week.
Another hit this week was our Valentine’s science experiment. We used smaller tools to drop red vinegar onto baking soda hearts. It was quite neat to see the hearts sizzle. We also had lots of practice using our little fingers to manipulate craft materials. We created Valentine necklaces by using a hole punch to pop holes into foam hearts and threaded them onto yarn. We also made a Love Bug where we practiced our cutting, threading and twisting pipe cleaners. So many crafts this week! Each of us making a heart person was quite fun to see; we folded paper arms and legs into accordions and cut out a heart body. These heart people turned into superheroes, cats and depictions of our families.
Some additional things we did this week include drawing and writing in our creative journals, forming the uppercase and lowercase versions of the beginning letter of our names, threading pipe cleaners through holes in a paper heart and adding beads to a heart made of glue to create a delicate beaded heart.
Let’s not forget about the warm weather we had at the beginning of the week. Sun is always nice to have and is good for us all. It’s great to be outside more often. Everyone sure had fun! Even when it was suddenly frosty we still had fun!
I hope everyone is having a wonderful Family Day weekend!
Xoxo Miss Audra
Show and Tell continues to excite everyone! After the Show and Tell has been shared, we all have the opportunity to ask a question and give a comment about the object shown, to gain a better understanding of why a particular object is so special. We are starting to comprehend the difference between a question and a comment. It is nice to hear that the questions asked are becoming more considered and thoughtful.
Valentine’s Day is all about being thoughtful and loving towards others, so we talked about the meaning of Valentine’s Day; particularly how we can show love to our friends and family. There were many great ideas including sharing and using kind words…even making breakfast together. We started off our Valentine’s celebrations by working as a team to hunt down all the tiny hidden hearts. The emphasis was not to find more hearts than everyone else, but to work together to find the hearts and to solve clues to find the tricky ones. Once the hearts were found (we were always amazed at how many hearts we continued to find throughout the day, after our hunt was over! I’m sure there are still some lingering around.) each of us lined up our hearts, counted them, and then we compared the amounts we had; working on how to recognize more/less and most/least. We had so much fun with this game and wanted to play it every day this week.
Another hit this week was our Valentine’s science experiment. We used smaller tools to drop red vinegar onto baking soda hearts. It was quite neat to see the hearts sizzle. We also had lots of practice using our little fingers to manipulate craft materials. We created Valentine necklaces by using a hole punch to pop holes into foam hearts and threaded them onto yarn. We also made a Love Bug where we practiced our cutting, threading and twisting pipe cleaners. So many crafts this week! Each of us making a heart person was quite fun to see; we folded paper arms and legs into accordions and cut out a heart body. These heart people turned into superheroes, cats and depictions of our families.
Some additional things we did this week include drawing and writing in our creative journals, forming the uppercase and lowercase versions of the beginning letter of our names, threading pipe cleaners through holes in a paper heart and adding beads to a heart made of glue to create a delicate beaded heart.
Let’s not forget about the warm weather we had at the beginning of the week. Sun is always nice to have and is good for us all. It’s great to be outside more often. Everyone sure had fun! Even when it was suddenly frosty we still had fun!
I hope everyone is having a wonderful Family Day weekend!
Xoxo Miss Audra
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