1/8 Classroom Update!
Happy New Year! I hope you all had a wonderful and relaxing holiday break! This week, we jumped right back into the swing of things with a busy week learning about the Jan Brett classic The Mitten. We practiced sequencing the story in order, acted out the story for the class, learned a song about the mitten called "The Mitten in the Snow," colored our own mittens and laced them up. We made story retelling bags so that we can tell you the story of "The Mitten" at home! The week we also worked on rhyming by playing rhyming games and completing rhyming sorts. We sorted words that rhymed with "Snow" and "Flake," as well as played a mitten rhyming match game, Below are some of the mitten themed stories we read this week:
We have been working hard on getting ourselves dressed and ready to go outside independently. Each day, we practice taking off our shoes, putting on our snow pants and then our boots, zipping our coats, putting on our hats, and lastly putting on our gloves/mittens. I have been asking all students to try to zip their coats first, and then tell them that Ms. Mackenzie or I will help them if they still need help. I have already seen big improvement in our ability to get ready in just this week! Practicing zipping coats and other clothing items at home is a great way to strengthen fine motor muscles and to help your child be more successful in getting themselves ready to go outside in the snow!
Next week, we will return to having a letter of the week. Our letter of the week will be the letter K, and we we will focus on kites. We will talk about what makes kites fly, create our own flying kites, practice drawing people flying kites, and play kite themed math/counting games. I'm looking forward to another great week!
Have a great weekend!
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