Good Afternoon!

**Just a beginning of the week reminder that the pre-conference forms that were passed out on Friday are due this upcoming Friday which is February 3rd. Thanks!

The reading area allowed us to have a quiet space this morning where we read some of our favorite stories. Even though our friends can’t read yet, they look at the pictures and retell the story based on the pictures that they see.

Friends headed to the art table and used a variety of materials including markers and dot paints. Our fine motor skills are always working at the art table. For example, friends worked on twisting the tops of the dot painters on and off.

Almost everyday, friends join together to do floor puzzles. We exhibit good communication skills, teamwork, and trial and error by figuring out what puzzle piece goes where. David and Calix were quite proud when they finished the dinosaur floor puzzle after working together.

The pattern blocks were made available at the island where different patterns were attempted. These seem to bring a challenge to our friends not only because of the various colors but the pattern blocks need to be set in a certain way.

In large group, we focused on two of our weekly FAB’s:

K.RL.3.2 Define the role of the author and illustrator of a story in telling the story.

K.RL.4.1: Describe the relationship between illustrations and the story in which they appear.

We read the story, ‘The Day the Crayons Quit’. We found a lot of the letters within the story quite funny! After the story, we talked about the author and illustrator of the story. We looked at the cover of the book where we were able to find these two pieces of information.

After we figured out who the author and illustrator were along with what their jobs entailed, we looked at a couple of the pictures and related it to what the words said. “The pictures tell what the words say!” We looked at the relationship between the words that were wrote along with the pictures that were drawn.

Breakfast– Whole wheat bagel with cream cheese and apples.

Lunch– Whole wheat pasta with marinara sauce, oranges, and mixed vegetables.

PM snack– Whole milk yogurt with papaya.

Wee Sprout– Apples.

Have a lovely night.

-Mindy

Link to pictures: WF 1/30