We are overloaded with different things to celebrate in February! We are busy building igloos, learning about many different important people for Black History Month, Lunar New Year, focusing on what kindness means and how to show it, President's Day on the horizon and Valentine's Day-whew!
Math & Science:
Each child made a prediction for how many marshmallows it would take to build their igloo. Estimation equations come much later but it's fun to give them the foundation to build somewhat accurate estimations. Just as we do for early coding in JK, they are quite capable of learning how to predict with numbers even if they cannot name the exact quantity.
Ezra's dad (along with his mom and little sister!) came to celebrate his birthday and gave the children each a polyhedron shape to take home. What a treasure and how thoughtful to bring such a fun gift and story to the class. Thank you! To find out more about 3D shapes follow this link:
http://www.kidsmathgamesonline.com/facts/geometry/3dpolyhedronshapes.html
Literacy:
Some of us have been working on the "sh" and "ch" sounds, as we put the "ph" sound in letter jail, since it does not sound at all as it should. Using "flippy dolphin" is another reading strategy we implement as we try a different vowel sound if the first one doesn't make sense. This English language is tricky!
Social Studies:
We celebrated Lunar New Year with our upper school buddies who came to JK to escort us to the MPR and then spent time during the slide show together. The children colored their animal sign as we learned the story about each animal on their journey. Our class birthdays are either the sheep or the horse. Ms. Hilda read a story about Lunar New Year and an upper school student answered questions about the celebration.
We have been learning about many great inventors and leaders as we celebrate Black History Month. We watched a Ruby Bridges video and talked about how brave she was and how kind to pray for people who were treating her unfairly and being mean. The children loved watching her and all had ideas on how they would have helped her.
Fine Motor:
We created stop lights in honor of the inventor, Garrett Morgan. We learned that he also invented a breathing mask which would become the masks used by firefighters as well as in war. He has saved many lives because of his amazing contribution. It's quite incredible to think of the impact he made and continues to make with just two of his many inventions-the stop light and the breathing mask!
We colored and added fluffy cotton to Inuit people and will finish cutting them out and add them to a classroom collage next week.
Be sure to bring in your shoe box covered with white paper next week. We are excited to make our Valentine's boxes!
Have a lovely weekend!
Ms. Massey
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