Well, we have made it through the second week of our virtual classroom. Thank you 3B families for a great week. Things are getting smoother!
We had so much fun this week as we played the Hopping Frogs game that Debbie created. It was a great way for the children to practice math in many ways: counting the dots on the “dice”/flashcards, counting the frogs hops, as well as numeral recognition as the frogs hopped their way along the board. This is a game that can easily be done at home too. Simply put twelve strips of tape on the floor, write the numbers 1-12 on them, and use two dice to guide children as they hop from strip to strip of tape.
Many of you joined us in the afternoons (1p.m. M-F) this week for story and/or activity time. Thanks for participating! It was very fun to make trees form repurposed materials, make play-dough, and test gravity with you. Again, these activities can all be repeated or tweaked to be done at home and keep the 3B friends entertained. Play-dough will hopefully entertain them independently for a long time. Soon, we’ll be making slime, and we’ll try DIY Model Magic, too!
Here is a list of activities and suggested, though flexible, just use whatever you have at home, supplies for our afternoon sessions next week:
Monday - Building with strips of paper and/or cartons, various boxes, and other household materials
Potential building materials:
• Strips of (semi-)sturdy paper, such as construction paper -or-
• empty cartons/food containers (small juice/milk containers, clean yogurt cups, cleaned juice boxes, etc.) that can be affixed to each other to create structures
• glue/glue sticks/tape
Tuesday - Planting seeds - soil or damp paper towels or cotton balls
• seeds - collected from home, or store-bought
• soil -or- paper towels/cotton balls
• jar for planting -or- plastic bag that can be taped to a window that gets some sunlight throughout the day
• water
Wednesday - Head, Shoulders, Knees and Toes (sing around at different speeds) / Dance Party
• No materials needed
Thursday - Fluffy Cloud Putty
• 2 heaping cups of corn starch
• 1 cup of conditioner
• food coloring
Friday - 3LP - Bookmaking, using cover from 3/27 if they have it
Materials:
• Printer paper - 5-6 sheets
• Construction paper - one sheet for book cover (if you have on hand)
• Stapler
• Drawing materials (if we have time to illustrate after putting our books together)
Reminder: The Google Classroom is up and running. There you’ll find a number of books read aloud, a class movement playlist, and an ongoing list of activities for your children at home. An email was sent via BMS administration on 3/15, detailing how to access the classroom. Enjoy!
Reminder: Monday we will be meeting individually with the 3B friends. We miss them and want to spend some one-on-one time with them. Please choose a time if you would care to take part.
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Thanks for everything, 3B Families. Have a great weekend!
