Happy Tuesday!

Hello Everyone!

Today we are learning about helpers and helping out. I talked to the kids about helping and they decided that they would be helpers by going on the potty by themselves and by cleaning their rooms :)

We read some cute books about helping. The Little Red Hen is a great book about helping, and also what not helping does.

We also read, I Can't Said the Ant by Polly Cameron. This is a book about all the things in the kitchen working together to help a broken teapot. We talked about how you can help someone by encouraging them to feel better, like many of the characters in this book. Also, the spiders and the ants worked together to help the hurt teapot.
This book also had a lot of rhyming, so we practiced the rhyming words and found new words to rhyme with them.

We also read Can You Tell Me How to Get to Sesame Street? by Eleanor Hudson, which is about Elmo getting help finding Sesame Street and also has some great rhyming to practice!

Helping correlates with our letter H and the h sound. We find words in our books that also begin with h, such as hen, hope, higher, harvest, and so forth.

Snow Day!

Our first winter storm! The bigger kids didn't have school today, so we had some fun with baking and making some Christmas cards and crafts. 


The younger children are learning their opposites today; light and dark. We talked about the stars and how the light star shows up against the dark sky. We also compared colors, like light blue and dark blue. We discuss how opposites are very different from each other. 

I hope everyone has safe travels today! 

Friday- Horses

Today we are learning about one of our animals of the month- horses! I like to teach the children about an animal that corresponds with the letter they are learning (H), and if possible, an animal common to the area. Children learn about nature best by beginning with the surrounding geographical nature and expanding outward later.

We learned that horses are strong, and often gentle. You can ride a horse, race a horse, feed a horse, and do many other things with horses. Some horses live on farms and others are wild (although not very many anymore). Horses can be many colors, usually shades of brown, white, or black. Horses have a mane and tail and some are miniature.

We explored horses on National Geographic Kids and watched a video of some of the last wild horses left in America. We also read some books about horses and colored some pictures, and made our National Geographic information card.

Tuesday

Cookies! Today we reviewed the letter H and what we learned about house builders. We all helped make some sugar cookie dough and cut out cookies. We made stars, and the letter H, and some things that begin with H, like hat, hand, and heart. We also "painted" the cookies with water and put sprinkles on them. So, if your child has flour on their clothes, know that they had a ton of yummy fun while learning! We'll be sending them home for the families to see, so I hope you enjoy them :)

Monday

Today we talked all about house builders. Braden's Grandpa is a house builder. We watched some video footage of a Habitat for Humanity house being built (a lot of H letters!). First they clear the land, then dig a hole, then the cement mixer comes and pours cement, then walls, a roof, and don't forget the windows and doors! Then a house builder paints and makes it pretty. Finally, the family moves in!

We also talked about the star shape today and had our circle time, talking about the calendar and singing songs.