This week......
As January winds down so does our awesome author study. It has been so much fun getting to know some of the many wonderful authors that enhance our JK days with their books. This week we are focusing on books written by Doreen Cronin. She wrote such books as: Click, Clack, Moo. Cows That Type, Click Clack, Quackity Quack, Duck For President and many more! We are looking forward to a lot of fun activities based around these zany books. Stay tuned!
Our focus letter of the week is the letter that puts the Awesome in Alphabet.....letter Aa. The children will learn the sounds, sign, and shape of upper and lower case Aa. We've been singing Jack Hartmann's vowel song and learning about the long and short sounds each vowel makes. Alphabet learning is so much more fun with music, animation, and hands-on activities. The children really enjoy working together on iPad activities, computer applications, and printing/bookmaking activities that enhance their learning experiences. Dancing, singing, rhyming and signing are always part of our JK fun as well.
Counting with 1-1 correspondence and numeral recognition games and activities are the focus of our math lessons this week during Centers. We continue to practice counting, making predictions, numeral recognition to 30 and pattern-making and continuing during daily calendar activities as well.
It's been a wonderful January that has just flown by! This is the time of year when we teachers see the most growth in the children and in their learning endeavors. It's exciting! I'm looking forward to sharing with all of you at our Parent/Teacher Conferences on February 9th (and some alternate days as well). If you haven't already plugged your date and time into the calendar please give me a call or send me an email as soon as possible. Just a reminder that when you signed up for the October conferences you were automatically signed up for that same time slot on February 9th. Thanks! See you soon! :)
Field Trips: Wednesday February 8th we will take a second visit to First Fruits Hydroponic Farm to harvest some of the fruits and veggies we helped to plant when we visited last October.
February 29th we will go to Botanical Gardens! :)
Have a great week!
