Monday, March 26, 2012

Theme of the Week: Tools and Machines!

This week we are learning all about the different types of tools and machines we use today in our society. We will be talking about how we use them, what they are for, and a little bit about how they are made. We will also talk a little bit about the history of some tools.

We will be tracing around actual tools, showing lots of pictures, and reading stories.




This week in Circle:

Letter: Cc
Words: Cake and Cow
Color: Purple
Shape: Square
Number: 26

C container: car, camera, cookie, camel and corn.

Monday, March 19, 2012

Theme of the Week: Penguins and Polar Bears!

This week is all about penguins and polar bears:) We will be doing some crafts and reading stories about where these types of animals live and what some of their characteristics are!


This week during circle:

Letter: Bb
Words: Balloon and Butterfly
Rhyming Words: Ship and Lip
Color: Brown
Shape: Circle
Number: 19

Things in our Bb container: boat, ball, bottle, banana, bell, and bat!

Some EP Pictures!! 















Monday, March 12, 2012

EP Pictures! :)





















In circle this week:

Letter: Aa
Words: Apple and Alligator
Rhyming Words: Dog and Frog
Color: Blue
Shape: Star
The A container: Apron, Ant, Acorn

** We are also working on writing our letters! The kids have been doing a great job tracing along the dotted lines!

Tuesday, March 6, 2012

Theme of the Week: The Deep Sea + Ocean Life

The next two weeks is all about the wide and vast waters of the world. We will be making jelly fish and decorating sea creatures to put on our ocean mural. We have made a new and improved Ollie the octupus and we will watch a video on how underwater creatures communicate! We will also be talking about ways to help keep our waters clean.  If you have any good books at home about our oceans or seas please bring them in and we'll read them in class!



Circle:

Letter: Zz
Words: Zebra and Zipper
Color: Green
Shape: Square
Rhyming Words: Fan and Pan

** We have been working on writing our names by following dotted lines and we have been working on recognizing letters and numbers more. We play games to make it fun too!