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Monday, September 10, 2012

A Sneek Peek at our 3rd Week!


A SNEEK PEEK AT OUR 3rd WEEK!

Our commitment this week is:
We will keep our eyes on the teacher
Our destressor technique is:
The Drain
Arms out in front and clinch your fists and tighten the muscles in your arms, scrunch your shoulders to your ears and squeeeeeze tight!
Now open your fists and say:
“shhhhhhhh”
like the water is draining out of the tub
and let your upset feelings drain out!

We are still focusing on the letters in our name, so please continue to send a clean label that starts with your child’s name!

In Math we are focusing on the color Orange and the square shape.  We are also sorting things by color, shape and size.

In Science this week we are learning
about our 5 senses
Monday: I can see with my eyes
Tuesday: I can smell with my nose
Wednesday: I can hear with my ears
Thursday: I can taste with my tongue
Friday: I can feel with my hands
On Thursday We will be using our tongue to taste 3 different types of apples and then we will graph which one is our favorite!

 
This is our completed graph! 
In Workstations we are exploring the station and focusing on cleaning up the station correctly!

At Orange Beehive we can explore, scoop and rake the packing peanuts, making sure to pick up the ones we drop on the floor.
At Yellow Beehive we can explore play-dough with tools, making sure to pick up the play-dough we drop on the floor and putting the lid back on so that it won't dry out.

At  Blue Beehive we can quietly read a book in the class library, making sure to use our magic finger to gently turn the page so we don't rip it.

At Pink Beehive we can play pretend in the home center, but we have to be sure to clean up when we are done.

At Brown Beehive we are using our fine motor skills to put pegs, buttons and 3d shapes back in the right jars using tweezers.

At Purple Beehive we are using our large motor skills to build with blocks but we have to make sure we are using safe hands with our blocks.

At Green Beehive we are using our ABC skills to put together an ABC puzzle

At Red Beehive we are using our listening skills to listen to a story on CD
At the horseshoe table we are working with Mrs. Kitchen on the letters in our name, we are practicing our rainbow writing, and on Wednesday we will be making a paint dot paper plate letter of what our name starts with, then on Thursday and Friday we will make our own name puzzle.


 
 
At lightbulb station we go down to the center room with Mrs. Bell and work on letters and use the computers.

A look back at last week!


LOOK WHAT WE DID LAST WEEK!

Classroom Commitments & Destressor
Our commitment for the week was to use our listening ears and follow directions and by the end of the week we were helping each other to do what the teacher or grown-up tells you to do. Our destressor technique was the balloon, and we know that whenever we feel angry, upset scared or sad we can puff up our pretend balloon and then let all the air out and it helps us to relax.
Phonemic Awareness
We are learning all about the letters in our name and on Friday we brought food labels to put on our environmental print word wall that start with the same letter as our name.  We sang our name song for each person that brought an item:
B_____ starts with B
B_____ starts with B
her name is B_____
her name starts with B
And then we pinned her brownie label under the letter “B”
We are also becoming good early readers by learning the parts of the book, we know the front back and spine that we learned the first week and now we know what part of the book is the words and what part is the pictures.

Work Stations
We have started learning how to do a work station, clean up and transition to our next station so that we can learn in our small groups at the horseshoe table! On Friday we learned about our journals and how to use them during morning journal time.
THE BEST PART OF THE WEEK!
We went the Garrison High School Pep-Rally, we met the Garrison Bulldog, and her name is Tiby! We saw the football players, cheerleaders, band and twirlers it was a lot of fun!