- Reminder - We are doing a $5 gift exchange on Tuesday - please bring a wrapped gift to exchange!
- Please read the Winter Carnival information sheet (green paper) sent home in your child's backpack! This will be held on Friday February 10th, 2012 at the New Prague Middle School! Please help with silent auction items, tickets to events, or gift baskets if you are able!
Activities:
- Projects: We wrapped our families' holiday presents! We also made a Rudolph - the children's hands were the antlers! :) We had lots of fun with this!
- Mortimer the puppet introduced the letter "I" this week - he found an Icky Insect! See if you can find other words that start with the letter "I" with your child!
- We had fun playing our instruments - we played soft, loud, slow, and fast, and even got to march in a band around the room!
- We've got mail: We found bottle instruments!! You can also do this at home! Take a plastic pop or water bottle that has been washed out, put something inside such as: macaroni, rice, sand - screw the cover on tight! We made different types of instruments - find out which items made loud or soft sounding instruments!
- Dora's clues this week were: red crayon, red marker, and red paper - Dora brought a book about red!
- Excuse for snack: 1) Choose a card with an activity on it: flap your arms, wiggle your hips, etc... 2) Match the mittens exercise!
- Song: I'll Be Wearing: (sung to She'll Be Comin' Round the Mountain": I"ll be wearing (two warm mittens) when it snows. (clap, clap), I'll be wearing (two warm mittens) when it snows (clap, clap); I'll be wearing (two warm mittens), I'll be wearing (two warm mittens), I'll be wearing (two warm mittens), when it snows! (clap, clap).... repeat with other winter clothing items!
- Books: Cordoroy's Christmas - what did corduroy get for Christmas? : skates, a sweater, and a doll!; Dream Snow - This is a great story about a farmer who feeds his animals - he puts on his warm red coat, boots, and gloves and decorates a tree for them and leaves them each a gift.
- The Heathy Helpers this week were: Lydia and Laine!
