Our week started off with loads of excitement which was having our very first "Friendly Frog of the Day!" It is a very important role as that person assists the teacher in turning on the "clean-up music," leading Circle Time, holding the flag for the "Pledge of Allegiance, having first choice for centers, leading the class line and Sharing!
After sharing their special item with the class, their classmates are able to ask three questions about it. We have been learning the difference between a question and a statement and that questions begin with "Who," "What," "Why," "Where," "When" and "How." It is amazing how quickly they are catching on. You should try this at home! Next, they find their name on the sharing calendar and see whose name is "next door" before delivering the sharing bag to the child who will be sharing the next day.
"Working on the Team" is a phrase that you often hear in Alpha. The children are learning how important it us to work together on activities such as solving puzzles, building, collaborative art projects and cleaning up the classroom and playground. They get excited about being part of the team, and it is FUN!!!
Our first Fire Drill with the whole school was a success. The children walked quickly and quietly to the field joining the other classes as they practiced being safe!
Building with "People Blocks" often requires lots of balancing and patience, though the finished product is definitely worth waiting for.
Eye-hand coordination and fine motor skills are in motion as bright, colorful pom-poms are being transferred from a bowl to a muffin tin.
We have such a good time with Mrs. McIvor during Music Time. Learning the "Chicken Dance" was a popular activity for all.
Identifying numbers and taking turns with a friend to find a matching number is extra fun, because we discovered they are magnetic just like our shape blocks.
The "ABC Song" is often heard as the childre fill the letters of the alphabet with water and watch them sink or empty them and watch them float.
On Wednesday we made our very first trip to the library to visit Mrs. Smay. She introduced us to "Mr. Clean Hand" and "Mr. Dirty Hand" who taught the children how to take care of books.
Then the boys and girls learned how to use "shopping cards" before checking out their library books.
After learning about the many different kinds of germs in the book, "Those Mean. Nasty, Dirty, Downright Disgusting but Invisible Germs" by Judith Rice, the children squeezed little dots of paint onto the center of their paper to create the beginnings of a germ.
After we folded the paper the children pushed the paint dots with their fingers as they watched the paint move across the folded paper. Then.... we opened it to find a perfectly symmetrical and beautiful GERM! Next they named their germs. These will be displayed on the large classroom bulletin board!
By the way it took lots of strength and both hands to squeeze those paint bottles. Pictures of the finished product to come!
On the playground some of us took a turn getting the hula hoops in motion, even double hula hoops.
Rub a dub dub, four in the tub!
On the balance buckets...."Look, I can do it myself, no teachers!"
Pedaling and steering those tricycles.....around the bike path!
On the Big Climber....
making new friends and keeping the old!
Some of the literature that we read this week included:
"You Get What You Get" by Julie Gassman
"Should I Share My Ice Cream?" by Mo Willems
"Is It My Turn?" by David Bedford
"Just Me and My Dad" by Mercer Mayer
Mystery Reader Dates (still available)
3/27, 4/10, 4/24, 5/8
Please let me know if you would like to be a mystery reader on one of those dates.
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