November 17, 2011
Announcements:
- Hope you enjoy the Booklet of Experiences and the progress report that is in there also! Enjoy! Remember to bring the booklets back to school so we can continue adding to them - thanks!
Activities:
- Star of the week: Emma!
- Art Projects: paper bag turkey - Thanksgiving table decoration - enjoy!
- We worked on the numbers 3 and 4 in our numbers book this week!
- Mortimer the puppet introduced the letter F this week! He had Fun Feathers! Practice these letter sounds this week with your child!
- Dora's clues this week in our classroom were: brown marker, brown crayon, and brown paper. We found in Dora's backpack a book about the color brown!
- Our topics this week that we discussed were: forest/woods, hibernation, and camouflaged. Ask your child about animals that hibernate for the winter, and what animals are camouflaged in the woods!
- Books: Who is Sleeping - a fun book about hibernation, and Chameleon - we explored camouflage!
- We had mail this week: we found a fun experiment that the children really enjoyed! It was called "Balloon Blow Up": Put 1 tsp baking soda into a balloon, pour 1/4 cup vinegar into a 10 oz bottle. Now attach the balloon to the mouth of the bottle.... the baking soda in the balloon will slowly fall into the vinegar at the bottom of the bottle - watch what happens!! Amazing! The carbon dioxide gas rises and inflates the balloon!!
- This week we dismissed for snack by: 1) We made a square on the floor with yarn and each child was given a movement direction to do with the square. 2) We stood on a certain shape and reviewed our shapes!
- Music: "In the Forest", sung to "The More We Get Together": If you're ever in a forest, a forest, a forest; If you're ever in a forest, you might see a (bear).... repeat with other animals such as: skunk, fox, deer, eagle, bug, etc!
