We celebrated a new year, 2012, and introduced the concept of telling time. We've thus far practiced counting by 5s, all the way to 100, and this week discussed "hour" and "minute" hands. Ask your child to identify the difference--which one is tall? Which one is short? Who in your family would be the hour hand: mom or dad? Questions like this at home help that new knowledge stick!
Last week, we had the following activities and centers:
Math Centers:
Graphing "Fun in the Snow" people. Which one had the most? Which one had the least?
Matching snowflakes to the correct number, then create patterns using foam snowflakes
Create a New Year's Book counting down from 10
Practice basic addition by spinning twice, drawing the number of cookies each time, then counting the total
Roll a die and add the correct number of "sprinkles" to "cookies"
Lit Centers:
find 10 words hidden around the room. What do they describe? That is the word! (ex: window, pencils, calendar, etc.)
write your name in shaving cream
snow and polar animal books in the reading loft
practice writing capital and lowercase letters in hot cocoa powder
make snow!
Other activites:
snowman out of a paper bag
snowflake out of craft sticks
treasures of the Christian life chest
Polar Bear, Polar Bear, What do you Hear? by Bill Martin Jr., Eric Carle
snowball fight!
popsicle treats
This week (Jan. 10-12) included these activities:
Math Centers:
- Helping dinosaurs escape from the ice entrapping them
practice writing numerals in "My Number Book"
complete a sequence "How to Bake Cookies"
Estimation: "How many animal crackers?"
practice one-to-one correspondence and number recognition by playing a game
Lit Centers:
- write your birthday and draw a picture for our birthday book
- write your name using a white crayon on white paper, then color over to reveal the hidden message
- reading loft
- sort pictures based on their beginning sound
- complete ABC order dot to dot, which don't belong work sheets
Other activites:
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| Alexa counts out sprinkles |
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| Connor concentrates on his spin |
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| Charleigh cuts out her "most" snow person |
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| Look at the snow we made! |
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| Friends read together |
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| Cade carefully forms letters |
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| We love textures to help us practice writing! |
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| Where's Eric's pattern? |
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| Mrs. Nanette helps Ashley and Cameron count snowflakes |
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| Lydia and Keaton decide if it's an 8 or a 1 |
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| Micah gives the die a toss |
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| messy fingers create fun |
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| what a great E! |
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| Looking at the window...what could that word be? |
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| Ready for a snowball fight! |
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