“The Very Hungry Caterpillar” by Eric Carle was our focus this week. We are learning about how caterpillars form a chrysalis and turn into butterflies. The concept is quite fascinating. Just saying the word metamorphosis is tricky, and kind of funny too. We finger painted our own caterpillar to represent the one in the story. We used images from the book to show the story sequence in the proper order. Some of us have sharp memories! In the story the caterpillar eats quite a lot of junk food and this posed a great time to discuss the importance of eating healthy; while eating treats is okay, we cannot do it all the time. Knowing this we connected the dots and realized that the caterpillar’s tummy felt better about eating a nice green leaf because that’s where it gets its’ nutrients from. Smart thinking! We used our fingerprints to make a caterpillar that represented the number that we read on the paper. Each caterpillar turned out to be different lengths because of this. We also practice addition by adding together the circles of the two caterpillars to make a whole new, larger one.
This week we started our Estimation Jars for our special leader day. Little People were in our first Estimation Jar. We talked about what an estimation is and how we can take a guess that makes sense. We then counted them and organized them into many different groups such as; boys/girls/animals, colour of hats and the career each of the Little People may belong to.
We have been working hard on writing our numbers and representing them in different ways. Everyone really likes to use laminated number sheets where they have to read/write the number and represent it using Base 10 blocks and drawing little sprinkles on the cupcake. They love that when they clear their laminated sheet with a wet paper towel it turns the colour of the marker they use.
Some other things we did this week include; word work with the letter E (this was much harder to brainstorm words for than the previous letters), used numbered clothespins to create the proper number sequence, painted using Q-Tips and baked muffins of course!
See everyone soon!
Xoxo Miss Audra
This week we started our Estimation Jars for our special leader day. Little People were in our first Estimation Jar. We talked about what an estimation is and how we can take a guess that makes sense. We then counted them and organized them into many different groups such as; boys/girls/animals, colour of hats and the career each of the Little People may belong to.
We have been working hard on writing our numbers and representing them in different ways. Everyone really likes to use laminated number sheets where they have to read/write the number and represent it using Base 10 blocks and drawing little sprinkles on the cupcake. They love that when they clear their laminated sheet with a wet paper towel it turns the colour of the marker they use.
Some other things we did this week include; word work with the letter E (this was much harder to brainstorm words for than the previous letters), used numbered clothespins to create the proper number sequence, painted using Q-Tips and baked muffins of course!
See everyone soon!
Xoxo Miss Audra
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