News for December 3
We started off this week by learning which hand is the "right" hand and which is the "left" hand. You probably noticed that your child often had a "happy face" stamp on his/her right hand. This was used as a visual clue for the children. We also learned a song to help remember that we use the right hand to shake hands with someone. Here are the words to the song that you can read or sing with your child:
Give them your right hand,
Look them in the eye,
Put a smile on you face,
Then you say "hi" (repeat once)
The students explored 10 alphabet treasure boxes this week. These are containers that hold small objects with names that begin with a particular letter sound. For example, two of the items in the "Dd" box were a small plastic dolphin and a toy drum.
The students explored 10 alphabet treasure boxes this week. These are containers that hold small objects with names that begin with a particular letter sound. For example, two of the items in the "Dd" box were a small plastic dolphin and a toy drum.
The children used glue and tissue paper to create collages. They experimented with tearing, scrunching and overlapping the coloured tissue.
We focused on the letters U, V and W this week. The children practised the songs, sounds and shapes. We also reviewed the letters and sounds the class has learned so far (13...halfway through the alphabet).
The class discussed the different ways to tell a story. The students talked about how a story can be told through words (orally), through print (reading), through video and through song. We "watched" the story of Frosty the Snowman on DVD and talked about how the video was like a story in a book. Next, we read the story of Frosty as a read aloud book and then realized that the words were actually the lyrics to the song! The children had fun stomping their feet to:
Thumpty, thump, thump,
Thumpty, thump, thump,
Look at Frosty go!
Thumpty, thump, thump,
Thumpty, thump, thump,
Over the hills of snow!
The students had a drawing lesson on how to draw a snowman. After learning the basics and how to look at a snowman to help our brains decide how to draw it (for example, how his head looks like a circle; his scarf like a rectangle), we used our stuffed snowman as a model.
The class began to talk about the Jewish holiday of Hanukkah. We read a story about how families celebrate this holiday and began to learn the "dreidel song" (a dreidel is a spinning top with Hebrew letters on the sides).
As always, more information about the books (and DVD) we read this week, can be found at our companion blog at:
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