This week we have been learning about our 5 Senses. We sang a song about what each sense is for and sorted pictures to match the sense that is used. We discovered that some things use more than one sense! For example, you can SEE and HEAR fireworks. We read Brown Bear, Brown Bear What Do You See? and we used a mystery box to hide things for our friends & teachers to feel and guess what was hiding.
In addition, we have continued our All About Me/Family study. Everyone has been busy taking loving care of the baby dolls and throwing tea parties in our dramatic play center. We are building our fine motor strength by scooping colored rice and filling up presents and cupcakes liners in our birthday theme sensory table. We can count & add candles to the cupcakes, too. We played with family people in the dollhouse and also sorted the family people by colors. They can make a rainbow!!!
So many children are finding their names at the door all by themselves now! They are feeling confident and know the routine. This week we wrote their names in multiple places on a mural and challenged them to find & color their name wherever they found it on the paper. It was a little trickier without the shape cue that they have at the door or the photo attached to their name cards.
There were a few new things happening in our class this week, too!!! Everyone had a job to do: line leader, door holder, caboose, weather helper, etc. Our class jobs will rotate weekly so that everyone gets a turn to do each job. We were very excited (and maybe a tiny bit nervous) to start our new specials, too.
We had Chapel with Pastor Brandon. He read us a story, taught us about lighting the candles to show God is with us and how to catch the light and carry it with us always. We always sing This Little Light of Mine at the end of Chapel.
We also had our first music class with Miss Vicki. Everyone was very engaged and loved singing, dancing and playing the instruments. Miss Vicki read a story about emotions, challenged us to use our gross motor skills to pretend to be the Little Red Wagon, and introduced us to drums, tambourines, sandpaper blocks & rhythm sticks.
We celebrated Zoe’s birthday this week, too!!! Happy Birthday Zoe!
You should have received an email with a link to sign up for our Fall Conferences. Please let me know if you didn’t get it, or if you need to arrange an alternate time to meet.
We will be having a fire drill next week on Monday & Tuesday. Miss Debbie will just use a bell to keep things very calm- no loud alarm to scare us. We will just be practicing how to line up and go to our safe spot outside quickly.
Enjoy your weekends with your sweet Ladybugs!
Miss Sue, Miss Jenn & Miss Kelsi