Letter S

Language & Literature:

Sammy the Seal by Syd Hoff

Swimmy the Fish

Shape Game:

We played a memory game with shape cards, trying to find their like matches...matching the big oval to the small oval and the big triangle to the small triangle. 

Arts & Crafts:

We made SMILEY SUNS with SUNGLASSES! 

Dramatic Play:

We colored our very own SOCK SNAKES and then out on plays with our Snake Puppets! I loved hearing the stories they came up with and the different names they gave to their snakes:)

Music:

Itsy Bitsy Spider

Silly Snakes 

Outdoor play:

Stop & Go game...similar to red like green light but with a stop sign we held up to direct the kids to STOP.

Valentine's Day

We enjoyed a week full of LOVE!!! From making Valentine's for our loved ones, to decorating baskets to collect our friend's valentines in...we had so much fun creating things this week! They loved being blindfolded for a fun game of pin the heart between the giraffes and most of all they loved delivering their Valentines to all of their friends! 

Letter R

Finger play/Rhyme:

"I can raise my right hand"

I can raise my right hand.

I can raise it high.

I can wave my right hand.

At an airplane in the sky.

Language & Literature:

Little Red Riding Hood by Trina Schart Hyman

Rumplestiltskin by Paul O. Zelinsky

Arts & Crafts:

Rainbow craft- coloring the rainbow and using glue and glitter to make them sparkle!

Homework: 

Make your own Robot at home! I LOVED seeing all of these robots come back to school and each child talking about their robot and what they named it! Thank you for working on these with your child. 

Circle Time:

Recycling - what things can we recycle and how can we use certain things again? Encouraged them to go home and find things that could be recycled to use on their robots.

Science:

Rocks and discovering their different sizes and shapes and textures. We talked about the colors and sizes of rocks we found outside and whether they were rough or smooth, flat or jagged. We sorted the rocks by size and counted how many rocks we found. 

Music:

Row Row Row Your Boat

I've Been Working on the Railroad

Outdoor play:

Rabbit Race Relay- oh we had fun with this activity!