Dental Health, Post Office, Letters M&N

• This week we learned about dental health and teeth by reading both fiction and non-fiction books.

• At Large Group: 
• We practiced our number identification with a game called I Have… Who Has… In which each card has two numbers to identify. 
• We used our big teeth model (on loan from my dentist) to talk about dental health, how to brush, & foods that are good/bad for our teeth.

• We practiced writing skills using name folders. 

• At Small Group: 
• We worked on sequencing puzzles and used words like first, next, and last. 
• We also used several different size teeth to do a size sorting activity. 
• At Choice Time: 
• We extended our dramatic play into the writing area by creating a post office complete with costumes, paper, pencils, envelopes, stamps, shipping boxes, and mailboxes. The kiddos have been writing and mailing letters all week. 

• We added alphabet, number, and shape play dough mats to our play dough area. 

• We brought snow into our classroom and put it in the water table. We used some dried our markers to “color” snow. 

• We added a ton of pictures of the kids to our room this week. They have really enjoyed finding themselves in all the photo collages.

 

•  At Choice Time:

This was the road they built and the triangle part was "bumpy". :)

They experimented with several kinds of paint this week.

She made a ton of very creative "caterpillars" this week.

Trying out our new dress up clothes.

This was a great moment of friendship. :)

She giggled and giggled when she tried on my glasses.

Bean Bag Toss!

• These are the groundhog puppets we made on our one and only day of school last week:

The kiddos really enjoyed making predictions about the groundhog and his shadow.

• To make up for all the snow/cold days we've been having, we had two letters of the week this week (M&N). Some of our activities include: 
• Practicing saying the sound the letter makes. 
• Seeing who has the letter in their name. 
• Using white boards to practice writing the letter at large group. 
• Making our alphabet book page for each letter at small group. 
• Searching the room for things that start with the letter of the week and feeding them to the “letter monster”. 
• Identifying the letter.