Language Arts:
The story we read about a pig who found a magic talking bone lead to many interesting conversations about what each student would do upon finding such a strange and enchanting object. We have read many lovely Steig stories this week: Pete's a Pizza, Caleb and Kate, Alpha Beta Chowder, The Three Little Pigs, Are you Going to be Bad?, Brave Irene, Dr. DeSoto, The Amazing Bone, Lion Lessons, Oh, Were They Ever Happy!, and How Are You Peeling?
We met with our third grade reading buddies and wrote "Response to Reading" pages using inventive spelling. The children are loving being read to and then working and illustrating pages with their older buddies! We are so fortunate to have that class to form relationships with this year! It gives the children friends to say "hi" to as they navigate the hallways, and makes them happy to know others outside of our early childhood nook!
As we prepared for our 100 Day Museum, the children completed a tag about the item they brought and shared it with the class before setting up for our museum. Grouping items and understanding the one to one correspondence while touching each item and moving it while counting is a critical exercise. This week has given us plenty of opportunities to practice these skills. We collaboratively colored a sign for our 100 Day Museum, and visited the museum in groups so each child would have an opportunity to talk about their item as well as enjoy all of the other children's items.
Our class also celebrated Chinese New Year with the Seniors! We attended two special sessions in the MPR and Library, including a demonstration on Chinese Puppets and Dough Figurines. The children volunteered to give puppeteering a try as they learned how difficult it is to hold and control the beautiful puppets! It's quite a skill to be mastered! The seniors were beyond wonderful, as they loved seeing the JK ers dressed as 100 year olds and loved just mingling and being with the little ones. JK loves spending time with the "big kids"!
Math & Science:
Children were separated into groups to categorize their items with their peers in groups of ten to add up to 100! Each took turns counting their group's items. We also put children into groups and had each shout out their tens number as other children pointed and sang along with the game. Using students as actors as we move around the pieces makes it so much fun!
Fine Arts:
We will be working on our next round of self portraits. The children have also been working with clay and learning to make different extensions and then join them together. We finished our traffic lights we started last week, and will begin our next unit study we introduced today (Friday) on the great artist Monet.
We will be continuing our study and celebration of Black History Month, as we learn about the great Jackie Robinson, among other leaders/heroes.
Have a wonderful weekend/week!
Ms. Massey
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