Hello everyone! Wow, is it snowy and cold now! We are excited to see all of the snow, if only it would warm up so we could really go outside and explore it. Soon enough we know we will have the chance. We have been keeping ourselves very busy. Check out all of the new things we are learning as we explore!
We have been exploring literacy in a number of different ways! We recently completed a unit on illustrations/illustrators where we created a class book of our own illustrations and then were able to explore and make our own illustration flip books. At the end of our unit Miss Joy read a book that she created for her class called "Playing and Learning". We were so excited to see that our pictures were part of the illustrations!
Making Our Illustration Flip Books:
Recently we have been really exploring the letter "A" in a variety of ways. We have also begun talking about capital/uppercase (BIG) and lowercase (LITTLE) letters. We have been playing games, and doing projects to help us to recognize and identify these different forms of the letter "A". Some of our friends are already very familiar with the letter a and have been working on recognizing words that begin with the letter "A". Check out some of our work:
Our most recent math unit has focused on patterns. The children were introduced to A/B patterns through a few large and small group activities, and then had the opportunity to make their own patterns. Their favorite activity during this unit was to decorate a string of holiday lights in an A/B pattern using paint and corks. We asked that the children try really hard to make an A/B pattern with two colors of their choice, and then they had the opportunity to make their own creations using all of the colors!
We had a lot of fun one day exploring catapults! The children sat down in a small group with materials and pictures of catapults and had some discussion around how those catapults were made. After some thinking each child made an individual plan about how they could make their catapult with Miss Karin. They gathered the materials in their plan and then sat down to form their catapults! It was so much fun to test them out! When some of them didn't work as well as we would have liked, it was okay, we tried something new!
Our most recent science unit has been all about exploring weather! We did a super fun experiment where we created a snow storm inside water bottles. Check it out:
At the end of the day we decided to have a talent show! It was so much fun! We had a great time cheering each other on and supporting all of our friends as they shared their talent. We had musicians, singers, dancers, instrument players, and story tellers!
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