This week we easily eased right back into the routine after our wonderful holiday vacation!
Our letter of the week was Mm. We read My Mm Book (Jane Belk Moncure), learned the sign for the letter Mm & practiced the “mouse” yoga pose.
In keeping with the “Mm” theme, it was mittens galore this week! We read The Mitten (Jan Brett), One Mitten (Kristine O’Connell George) and The Mitten Tree (Candace Christiansen). Our own Candice did mention that she had the same name as the author. We listened to the book on tape, Three Little Kittens (Lorianne Siomades) and played a mitten match file game & mitten shape file game. We went on a word hunt, searching for animal words from The Mitten that were hung around the classroom, then tracing the words once we found them.
During circle time, we sang our favorite songs and reviewed skills such as name recognition, calendar and weather. We also read Here We Go ‘Round the Year (Jane Belk Moncure), which is a book about the months of the year before we were introduced to the new month of January & the brand new year 2015. We also discussed our new season of winter. Brrrr! It’s cold outside!
Tabletop activities included sorting materials, pegboards, new transportation puzzles and dress-up people. At center time, we played in the kitchen, used the cars/trucks and blocks, worked in the writing center by tracing a path from Nicki to his mittens, practiced our fine motor skills while q-tip painting and completed some monster math to reinforce our counting skills. During science we read The Mystery of Magnets (Melvin Berger) and explored what materials a magnet will and will not attract.
In the art center, we began preparing our January door decoration by painting with watercolors on coffee filters to make snowflakes, decorated the letter M with M&M’s and marshmallows (& ate quite a few), made hand print mittens & painted mittens with marshmallows (of course, we ate some of these too).
We also celebrated Allison’s 4th birthday on Wednesday. Allison’s family sent in delicious cupcakes, homemade by her grandma!
A great big thank you to all of the families who joined us for our “milk and cookie” holiday open house. All of the cookies and snacks were delicious!!!
We hope everyone enjoyed the holidays.
HAPPY 2015!!!
Have a warm and cozy weekend!
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