It was so great seeing all of you at Parent Teacher Conferences! Thank you so much for your continued support and dedication this year - we really appreciate the partnership! Please let us know if you have any further questions.
We had a short, but busy week in 2B - we explored literacy, made beads, and did a collaborative yarn painting.
Specialists
Spanish - We learned colors, numbers (1-5) , and animals!
Soccer
Music - we had a combined music class with 2A.
Literacy
We really dove into literacy this week! The children have been interested in letter recognition and writing, so we offered literacy rocks, tracing letters with gemstones, white boards, and name cards. Many of them enjoyed recognizing their names, as well as their friend’s names, finding familiar letters, thinking of words that start with particular letters, practicing writing letters, and tracing. We love coming up with fun and authentic ways to engage the children in literacy. If you have any suggestions for activities or projects, please feel free to let us know!
Beading
Last week when we worked with clay, the children were interested in rolling it into balls. On Wednesday, we offered the children clay, and encouraged them to break off small pieces and roll them into different shapes. After this, we poked holes in the clay to make beads! We let them dry and started to paint on Thursday. The children color mixed blue, pink, and yellow to create their own colorful beads.
The children love molding and manipulating clay! They were so engaged and focused on this beading activity. Next week, we’re going to string the beads with wire. Stay tuned!
Yarn Painting
On Wednesday, we created a collaborative yarn painting. The children used scissors to help cut up pieces of yarn. They then dipped the yarn in paint and placed it/dragged it across the paper. They quickly noticed that the yarn created lines of paint on the paper. Yarn painting is a great sensory activity. It allows children to really explore the materials, and create something amazing!
Other activities this week included:
Compiling our smoothie ingredients for the Curriculum Breakfast
November self portraits
Creating sensory bottles
Show and tell
Using scissors
Light and shadow
Reminder: Our Curriculum Breakfast is on 11/22. Please sign up on Nurish - we look forward to seeing many of you there!
Have a great weekend!