The past two weeks we have focused on Cc and
Catina Cat.
The children loved The Very Hungry Caterpillar
and the different activities we did. Our main
focus became leaves! The children were so
fascinated with investigating what trees we
have around the church, based on the leaves
we found. We matched the leaves to pictures of
different tree's leaves. One day the children
decided that they wanted to see if they could
find leaves that caterpillars or bugs had eaten,
like the very hungry caterpillar. One student
realized that if we put the leaves on the light
table, you could look at the holes eaten through
the light! During our investigating, we expanded
children's vocabulary by describing he leaves
and even learned new math skills. Some leaves
were half green and half yellow, so some of the
children were trying to find leaves that looked
like they were split in half with colors. The
afternoon class can create graphs and interpret
the data so fast! We created a leaf graph in
such a short amount of time. They were
counting, looking at the last leaf and going over
to see what number was on the left side of the
graph, and we double checked our work by then
counting the leaves. It is so exciting to see
them get so excited about these math concepts.
Each week you can see the anticipation about
what readable books we are going to read. The
are really enjoying "Funny Cat". Most children
can now tell me what an author does and what
an illustrator does. We have also been working
on looking at pictures and remember phrases
that are repeated to help them read the weekly
books. Our other books have focused on Fall.
This week our book is about all of the
wonderful food that we can make out of
pumpkins! Next week we will be tasting some of
the food that is in the book.
Speaking of pumpkins, we have cut into a
pumpkin and used describing words and used
our senses to investigate the inside and outside
of the pumpkin. I love hearing them expand
their vocabulary and then communicate with one
another using the new words and describing
words we used when we were exploring as a
group. The seeds have been used for creating
pumpkin "counting" patches and we will be
tasting the seeds too.
I am still amazed to see even our two year olds
stating the letter sounds and the animals
associated with them. Children are really
getting the hang of phonemic awareness and we
will continue to work on listening for the
beginning sound and next week add on and
listen for the ending sound. Rhyming will also
start being a focus! Both morning and
afternoon classes continue to explore more and
more and often it involves literacy or math.
Both classes are really moving ahead socially
and lots of friendships are developing!
Catina Cat.
The children loved The Very Hungry Caterpillar
and the different activities we did. Our main
focus became leaves! The children were so
fascinated with investigating what trees we
have around the church, based on the leaves
we found. We matched the leaves to pictures of
different tree's leaves. One day the children
decided that they wanted to see if they could
find leaves that caterpillars or bugs had eaten,
like the very hungry caterpillar. One student
realized that if we put the leaves on the light
table, you could look at the holes eaten through
the light! During our investigating, we expanded
children's vocabulary by describing he leaves
and even learned new math skills. Some leaves
were half green and half yellow, so some of the
children were trying to find leaves that looked
like they were split in half with colors. The
afternoon class can create graphs and interpret
the data so fast! We created a leaf graph in
such a short amount of time. They were
counting, looking at the last leaf and going over
to see what number was on the left side of the
graph, and we double checked our work by then
counting the leaves. It is so exciting to see
them get so excited about these math concepts.
Each week you can see the anticipation about
what readable books we are going to read. The
are really enjoying "Funny Cat". Most children
can now tell me what an author does and what
an illustrator does. We have also been working
on looking at pictures and remember phrases
that are repeated to help them read the weekly
books. Our other books have focused on Fall.
This week our book is about all of the
wonderful food that we can make out of
pumpkins! Next week we will be tasting some of
the food that is in the book.
Speaking of pumpkins, we have cut into a
pumpkin and used describing words and used
our senses to investigate the inside and outside
of the pumpkin. I love hearing them expand
their vocabulary and then communicate with one
another using the new words and describing
words we used when we were exploring as a
group. The seeds have been used for creating
pumpkin "counting" patches and we will be
tasting the seeds too.
I am still amazed to see even our two year olds
stating the letter sounds and the animals
associated with them. Children are really
getting the hang of phonemic awareness and we
will continue to work on listening for the
beginning sound and next week add on and
listen for the ending sound. Rhyming will also
start being a focus! Both morning and
afternoon classes continue to explore more and
more and often it involves literacy or math.
Both classes are really moving ahead socially
and lots of friendships are developing!