Hh is for Homes

This week we talked about homes and the letter Hh.  I asked the children what kind of home a bird, bat, bear, bee, and people live in.  In some classes, the children talked about what their homes look like.


Here is the K-Prep class forming the capital H with wiki sticks.  They also trace the letter on sandpaper and then practice writing it on their worksheet.

For art, the K-Prep class built a bird feeder with popsicle sticks and glue.  They had to learn how to form the criss cross pattern - much like how you build a house with Lincoln Logs.

Here is one of the centers: playing with the doll tree house.

Another center is to build transparent blocks on the overhead projector.

Here is the Preschool class hearing and learning to recite the Nursery Rhymes along with the felt board.

 

Here's the Preschool class exploring with watercolors again.

We also learned about the number 8 and the color black.

Oo is for Ocean

This week we learned about the letter Oo, the number 7, the color brown, heart shapes, and the sound of the letter Oo.

We discussed and read about oceans and the animals that live in them.

For centers, we finished up the centers we couldn't get to last week for our Halloween and week of review in the M/W/F class.  We finished the pumpkin cut-outs and what was inside the pumpkin as well as stamping the large review letters with matching letter stamps and stamps that had pictures of animals and things that started with the matching letter.  We also made dairy cow puppets to match last week's field trip and sorted dry rice or beans from Halloween treasures.

The Tuesday/Thursday class was able to start new centers.  They hammered nails in the nail board, pushed pegs into the Light Bright Cube, sorted ocean animals, and used overhead projectors as light tables to play with various transparent and colorful items.  The Friday class was able to  use the hammer & nail board and the light bright.

This week, we sang a new list of songs.  Even the teachers need to learn the words to the songs :).


For art, the M/W/F class was able to do the art project they were supposed to do last week.  I lost my marbles, last week, which made me crazy...get it?! Tee-hee! The project was to roll a marble through white paint and let it roll all over black paper to make a web.  We did it on Monday, so it could dry and we could glue a sparkly spider on it.  The Tu/Th class did the scratch pumpkin that the other class did last week.

This week, we started a new Bob book.  I copied it onto overhead transparencies.  This was the first time that the children had to look at screen as I taught at the projector!  They thought it was neat.  Next year in kinder, the teachers will either use a projector, an Elmo, or a smart board.  All of them require them to look at a screen.

Yes, I blurred my face out...it looked strange.

In the M/W/F class - on day 1 we do phonics, day 2 we do art, and on day 3 we do science or math.  The last time we had a three day week, we split the class in half.  One half did science (motion) and the other did math (number and picture matching).  This week, the two groups switched.

Next week, we'll learn about the letter Hh, the number 8, the color black, oval shapes, phonics, the theme - homes, and science in the Friday class.