This week was all about penguins. We learned where they live geographically, what they eat, and the characteristics of a variety of them. We learned that Daddy penguins take care of the eggs while the mommy penguin goes out hunting for food to bring back. Some of their faces, when they learned how penguins feed their babies, was hilarious! With this in mind, that kids made play dough penguin eggs that represented the number the paper penguin was holding.
Some of our Morning Meeting activities this week included; giving penguins toques that matched each penguins scarf, matching penguin shapes, matching uppercase letter penguins, and matching lowercase and uppercase letters. The younger kids had the letters that had uppercase and lowercase letters that resembled each other, while the big kids had the remaining ones.
The kids also did mirrored penguin paintings and practiced cutting skills when making a paper penguin.
Our letters this week were A and M. Some “at” words made it into our learning this week as well, because we heard a few of them in one of our songs. The kids did a great job building these letters using big lines and little lines. They are now starting to remember the terminology we use when describing how to build a letter. This will help greatly when we focus more on writing in the new year.
Even though we were lacking heat, our Storybook Truck visit went well again this week. Only one more Story Book Truck Thursday left! The kids sure do love getting new books each week, especially when they get to pick them out.
We also made guacamole and baked a cake for a very special 5th birthday! I over gauged the amount of cake batter that went into the pan so we were not able to eat the cake on the day of the birthday celebration, so we had candles in jumbo marshmallows and sang Happy Birthday that way. I had apologized to the kids and with a smile on their faces, a couple of them told me that that was okay. How sweet are they!
Some of our Morning Meeting activities this week included; giving penguins toques that matched each penguins scarf, matching penguin shapes, matching uppercase letter penguins, and matching lowercase and uppercase letters. The younger kids had the letters that had uppercase and lowercase letters that resembled each other, while the big kids had the remaining ones.
The kids also did mirrored penguin paintings and practiced cutting skills when making a paper penguin.
Our letters this week were A and M. Some “at” words made it into our learning this week as well, because we heard a few of them in one of our songs. The kids did a great job building these letters using big lines and little lines. They are now starting to remember the terminology we use when describing how to build a letter. This will help greatly when we focus more on writing in the new year.
Even though we were lacking heat, our Storybook Truck visit went well again this week. Only one more Story Book Truck Thursday left! The kids sure do love getting new books each week, especially when they get to pick them out.
We also made guacamole and baked a cake for a very special 5th birthday! I over gauged the amount of cake batter that went into the pan so we were not able to eat the cake on the day of the birthday celebration, so we had candles in jumbo marshmallows and sang Happy Birthday that way. I had apologized to the kids and with a smile on their faces, a couple of them told me that that was okay. How sweet are they!
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