Good Afternoon!

One of our favorite books lately is the ‘Miss Nelson’ book that has three different stories in it. K group members love the character of Viola Swamp. Yesterday, we read ‘Miss Nelson Is Missing’ and today, we read, ‘Miss Nelson Is Back’. Afterwards, we played a memory game that revolved around book titles and characters.

This specific group LOVES memory games. We’ve been pulling any memory game we can think of as they’re very interested in them lately. They love the competitive nature of these memory games and enjoy pushing themselves and their peers.

On the pieces of paper, I wrote book titles as well as characters that are in those stories. For example, on one piece of paper was ‘The Gruffalo’ and on another was, ‘Mouse and Fox’ who are main characters in the story.

Friends liked this game so much, they asked to play a second round!

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

In PREK2, children played ‘Shape Ka-boom’ which is an interactive game that focuses on shapes and identifying them. Friends take turns pulling one stick at a time with a shape on it and they have to identify it. If someone pulls the ka-boom stick, they have to put all of their sticks back into the jar! They love this game!

For kindergarten sign in, children matched three illustrations to the correct wording from a popular story: The Itsy Bitsy Spider! Children looked at the illustration that was drawn by the illustrator and identified the correct sentence that was written by the author.

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

Children came to the art table all morning long to explore the new playdoh that was made earlier this week! It’s one of our favorite sensory activities.

Mack and Franklin continued their morning trend by playing the memory rhyming word game. A few of their younger peers looked on as they played, observing what they were doing and soaking in rhyming words that Mack and Franklin worked with.

Breakfast– Kix and fresh pears.

Lunch– Brown rice with shredded beef, fresh oranges/pears/banana, and fresh broccoli/cherry tomatoes.

PM snack– Whole wheat crackers and sunflower seeds.

Wee Sprout– Fresh cherry tomatoes/broccoli.

Have a lovely evening!

-Mindy

Link to pictures: WF 1/28