Happy almost Valentine’s Day! The kids and I are excited to celebrate this day of kindness and love together! We spent all week counting down the days until Valentine’s Day and had so much fun doing Valentine themed activities. The nice weather also brought about many outdoor adventures!
We made pink play dough with sequins, journaled about what we love, made heart shaped bead wands, used heart-shaped cardboard tubes to do a little heart paint stamping, made varying difficulties of heart patterns, and matched uppercase and lowercase letters to make two halves of a heart come together.
The kids did some chocolate addition. Some used blocks, some used a mixture of blocks and writing numbers, and some decided to only use writing. They also put together math hearts. There were four quadrants in each heart that each represented the number four. There was the number 4, four dots, a tally, and/or a simple addition equation. They had to put together the four quadrants to make the full heart.
The big kids continued their work with the “all” word family by identifying and colouring only the images that represented an “all” word. And of course, we had a bit of fun making little stories using as many “all” words as we possibly could. We couldn’t resist the silliness in that!
As a whole group, we have a lot of fun learning through rhyme by either making up silly stories or altering songs like we did this week…I’m sure many of you know what song “ice, ice baby” comes from. Well that line turned into singing anything we could think of that rhymed with ice. There were some pretty funny word combinations!
Our letters this week were E and H. The kids built letter E with paper lines, wrote E and found E among other letters. They also practiced writing H and tracing a heart with Valentine stickers. I had the greatest time watching the kids giggle, squeal, and run all around acting out types of lines, as I shouted out “horizontal line in the craft room!” or “vertical line in the kitchen!”. So funny!
Over the past couple weeks, we have started reading Charlie and the Chocolate Factory by Ronald Dahl. This book does a great job, from chapter to chapter, keeping their attention. Sometimes they don’t want me to even read a picture book before the chapter book like we usually do at rest time. We are only seven chapters into a thirty-chapter book, but we have decided that we are going to have a Charlie and the Chocolate Factory party when we finish it. The kids have all sorts of ideas of what we can do for this party!
We made pink play dough with sequins, journaled about what we love, made heart shaped bead wands, used heart-shaped cardboard tubes to do a little heart paint stamping, made varying difficulties of heart patterns, and matched uppercase and lowercase letters to make two halves of a heart come together.
The kids did some chocolate addition. Some used blocks, some used a mixture of blocks and writing numbers, and some decided to only use writing. They also put together math hearts. There were four quadrants in each heart that each represented the number four. There was the number 4, four dots, a tally, and/or a simple addition equation. They had to put together the four quadrants to make the full heart.
The big kids continued their work with the “all” word family by identifying and colouring only the images that represented an “all” word. And of course, we had a bit of fun making little stories using as many “all” words as we possibly could. We couldn’t resist the silliness in that!
As a whole group, we have a lot of fun learning through rhyme by either making up silly stories or altering songs like we did this week…I’m sure many of you know what song “ice, ice baby” comes from. Well that line turned into singing anything we could think of that rhymed with ice. There were some pretty funny word combinations!
Our letters this week were E and H. The kids built letter E with paper lines, wrote E and found E among other letters. They also practiced writing H and tracing a heart with Valentine stickers. I had the greatest time watching the kids giggle, squeal, and run all around acting out types of lines, as I shouted out “horizontal line in the craft room!” or “vertical line in the kitchen!”. So funny!
Over the past couple weeks, we have started reading Charlie and the Chocolate Factory by Ronald Dahl. This book does a great job, from chapter to chapter, keeping their attention. Sometimes they don’t want me to even read a picture book before the chapter book like we usually do at rest time. We are only seven chapters into a thirty-chapter book, but we have decided that we are going to have a Charlie and the Chocolate Factory party when we finish it. The kids have all sorts of ideas of what we can do for this party!
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