First of all, THANK YOU SO MUCH for the donations to Operation Christmas Child! We were able to fill two boxes that will be sent out next week! What a blessing! Thank you for your generosity.
Our focus this week was on how to keep our bodies healthy and strong. We really packed a lot into a few days. Some of our topics of discussion were healthy foods to eat, how to make our bones and muscles strong, exercise, using our five senses, and how to stay free of germs. I think we could have spent much longer on this topic!
On Wednesday, we talked a lot about fruits and vegetables. We enjoyed talking about how different vegetables we eat are different parts of the plant by completing a fun vegetable flower craft. We also used carrots and celery to dot paint the numbers 9 and 10. What a fun way to talk about how vegetables are healthy for our bodies! We also sorted vegetables and fruit, which was a bit more challenging than I anticipated, but it brought on some good conversation!
We also spent time talking about staying free of germs. We did a fun "glitter germ" demonstration to represent how we need to really scrub our hands in order to get all of the germs off of them. Being able to watch the glitter come off and go down the drain was helpful in understanding how to do a better job washing. We even learned a fun "Wash Your Hands" song together and made a craft showing dirty and clean hands that is hanging outside our door on our bulletin board!
We of course spent some time talking about the importance of exercise. We had fun doing number exercises using our big dice. We talked about different ways that we can exercise and did a fun sorting activity of what is and is not exercise.
We had a large focus on reviewing the letters we have covered up to this point. We used food to help us with beginning sounds and spent time each day practicing writing these letters and saying their sounds. We searched for words and letters both in our poem of the week, "Go, Go, Go!" (in our poetry folders), and in our sight word book of the week called "Playing Ball". In addition to reviewing all digits, we focused on number 10 this week. We also did some fun activities to introduce ordinal numbers.
Our Bible focus (besides talking about how God made our bodies) was on being thankful for the friends that God gives us. We talked about Jonathan and David and how they set a good example of friendship. We even learned a fun new song for the month: "Thank You God"! Here it is if you want to sing and dance to it at home! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IyaSgIpVALc
See if your child can:
- Help you find letters they know in books throughout the week.
- Help you identify foods that are healthy and unhealthy.
- Do some form of exercise each day.
- Review our Bible story about Jonathan and David.
- Build a tower out of vegetable cans and count them.
They worked so hard on these!
We are doing so well at our independent stations!
This acorn letter game (bought with Trike-a-Thon money) was so fun!
We had fun with these food letter magnets.
Finding "go" in our book of the week.
Making salads was great scissor practice.
Another journal entry for this month. We will put these journals in portfolios
at the end of the year!
We enjoyed tracing our hands!
I is for igloo! Marshmallows may have been
a bit sticky!
Getting the glitter off our hands!
We love learning through playing!
We had some creative letter I objects!
Working on ordinal numbers
One of our students of the day
sharing her box!
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