Good Afternoon JK Parents!
The children were buzzing about our party and so excited to start the week! We had such a wonderful Valentine's celebration. I cannot thank you enough for all of the generous contributions of treats and decorations! They were spoiled like crazy. We had fruit for days!
We are studying great African American leaders, athletic heroes and great musicians as we celebrate Black History Month. We learned about Ruby Bridges, Garrett Morgan and Harriet Tubman. We watched a video on Ruby Bridges and wrote journal pages about being a friend.
Literacy/Language Arts:
The children are working on their sight words (popcorn/high frequency) with games in our circle at morning meeting. We are beginning to discuss digraphs and blends as a group but concentrate on the skills in each reading group according to readiness. We are working to scale our upper and lower case letters, so as they are practicing their writing remind them to make their lower case letters the same size and their upper case letters bigger. Our reading groups read high frequency word books and letter books, along with some new Bob books.
Math/Science:
We learned about icicles and how they temperature has to be 32 degrees or lower for them to form. We also learned that it must be sunny for icicles to develop and that they typically form on the south side of the building/structure. We brought huge icicles inside for study, as we talked about the danger as these melt and release from the gutters and rooftop overhang.
The children created 3-D shapes with tooth picks and marshmallows, and one even recreated the shapes by drawing them on paper! We now know he is able to recreate a tetrahedron, octahedron complex! They surprise me every single day.
We practiced grouping and categorizing coins and extending complex patterns as we become more familiar with money. The children practiced writing their numbers on writing sheets as we sang our money song.
We played a game the children love, helping them concentrate on the details of observation. We separate children into two groups who all share something in common within their group. They must find the similarities and differences, sometimes minute. It's interesting to see the differences and similarities I had not even thought of to include!
Fine Arts:
We created stop lights in celebration of Garrett Morgan, the inventor of the electric stoplight. The children were thinking of all sorts of ways to use them at home! They wrote the colors on each circle, practiced their scissor skills by cutting out the light signals, and writing words that begin with the same color as the different signal colors. We discussed how different life would be without stop lights, and what it means to be an inventor.
Have a lovely holiday weekend! Spring will be here before you know it. I don't want to rush the winter, because it will be one step closer to this amazing school year coming to an end.
Ms. Massey
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