Our Learning Poster:
Our vocabulary word for the week was "Twinkle", we learned / reviewed the Star Shape, worked on the letter T, the number 20 (or recognizing the number 2 and the number 0) and the poem Star Light, Star Bright. We sang Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star every day!
Our Read Alouds:
Our Stars and the Big Dipper (Let's Read and Find Out Science) were especially good! Goodnight Moon is always a classic, and Berenstain Bears On the Moon seemed to hold their attention really well!! The Magic School Bus books have so much information in them, I feel like I only skim the surface with them!!
Amazon Links for the Read Alouds:
Our Craft Projects:
Create your own Star Picture
Glitter Stars (I especially liked Sweet Pea's glitter stars in the above picture!)
We also hauled out a bunch of gems, buttons, stick on jewels, and more and decorated star templates cut out of light blue card stock. Princess is doing a great job developing her scissors skills!!
Another "craft" project that we did this week was creating a picture of the Big Dipper by printing out the template at this site and sticking on a star sticker on every dot. This was a great activity for Honey Bee and she did a pretty good job following directions, once she understood what she needed to do!
Letter T Activities
We created pages for their letter books that have Large Outline Letter Ts glued on construction paper stamped with a Teddy Bear stamp. We stuck teddy bear stickers on the letter T to remember that T says /t/ /t/ /t/ like Teddy Bear!
Princess is starting to grasp the concept that words are made up of sounds. When I first asked her, what sound do we hear at the beginning of the word Tree, she would say "Tree" "Tree" "Tree"! Now 2 out of 5 times, she gets the right sound, without saying the entire word!! I count this as a major victory!! Hopefully, the letter activities we're doing should expose the others to the idea that words are made up of sounds pretty early so it shouldn't be a problem!!
Fun (& Funny) Moments of the Week
Sweet Pea decided one day that we would play library! She set out all of the Board Books on the floor, and we "signed some books out" and read 1 or 2 of them, but she wouldn't let me read all of them because the needed to go right back to the library!!
Another Sweet Pea moment: we were working on sorting some stickers by shape and when she started to get bored, she told me that she couldn't do anymore because, "Her elbows were tired!"... Ahh... excuses, excuses!! Needless to say, we moved on to another activity (however excuse didn't hold water when it was time for clean up!!)
A final Sweet Pea memory: at one time during the day, I caught her singing to herself, "This is the day that the Lord has made for me because I'm special!" Too right you are, Sweet Pea!!
That was a brief look at our week! Princess, Sweet Pea and I spent some time reviewing circles, squares, and triangles using Lick and Stick shape seals from Roylco (but I just found a great recipe at I Can Teach My Child for make your own lick and stick stickers!) Hope you enjoyed hearing about our week!!
Jennifer
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