Newsletter - January 12-16, 2015

It may have been cold outside, but things were sure heating up inside Creative Kids while we continued our winter theme activities!

Our letter of the week was Nn. We read My N Book (Jane Belk Moncure) & learned the sign for the letter Nn. We had a blast playing with the noodle sensory bin hunting for all of the letter N’s hidden in the noodles!

We listened to the book on tape, Frozen Noses (Jan Carr) and read The Snowy Day (Ezra Jack Keats). We made a chart listing what we know about snow, read the book, Snow (Marion Dane Bauer), then added to the chart what we learned about snow from reading the book.

At circle time, we began a new activity where we tell Ms. Sheri if the letter of the week is in our name. If it is, we get to wear the special alphabet star necklace. Allison, Andrew & Candice all have “N” in their names so they got to wear the “N” necklaces this week. We also reviewed the calendar and weather, counted the children present at circle, had fun making snow angels, and sang many snowy songs and finger plays.  We also discussed Dr. Martin Luther King and how he tried to get people who were doing wrong things to stop. And we watched this cool video about him!



We sang “Happy Birthday Dr. King” and “Let’s Be Friends.”

Let’s Be Friends (Tune: “London Bridges”)

Let’s be friends with one another, one another, one another,

Let’s be friends with one another, Let’s be friends today.

I can wave to a friend, wave to a friend, wave to a friend,

I can wave to a friend, Let’s be friends today.

 (Other verses: laugh with a friend, hug a friend, smile at a friend.)

In the art center, we decorated the letter N with numbers because N is for Numbers! We worked on a class project making our snowman names, which also helped us practice writing our names. We painted a snowy day picture using white paint, silver glitter & salt & put together a Martin Luther King, Jr. Brotherhood Book.

Reminder: School is closed on Monday, January 19th in honor of Dr. Martin Luther King. We’ll see you all on Tuesday, January 20th.


Looking Ahead

Next week’s letter of the week will be Oo.

We’re looking forward to celebrating Candice’s 4th birthday next Friday!

Note: Watch out for news regarding a special upcoming event. Hint: You won’t have to dress us when we get up in the morning!

Enjoy the three-day weekend!