Morning Meeting
This week in our morning meetings we sang Itsy-Bitsy Spider in a low tone and a high tone, put on our masks to show how important it is to wear a mask to protect ourselves and others from corona-virus, and made a rice shaker out of paper towel roll. We added a new song to our morning meeting called “Wake Up", and we sang our ABC’s with our shaker. Other songs included “One Little Finger,” “Good Morning, “Happy Happy”, and “Baby Shark” in Spanish.
Sign Language
This week we learned four new words in sign language: hungry, eat, thirsty, and drink.
Just because baby isn’t talking yet doesn’t mean you can’t communicate. Early exposure to signing helps infants to develop their language and reasoning skills. We all know how hard it can be to understand why a baby is crying. Sign language is a great way to communicate and decrease their frustration.
Interesting Fact
Studies show long-term cognitive benefits, including:
Accelerated speech and emotional development
Enables children to communicate effectively
Lowers frustration levels
Improves child-parent bonding
Helps children remember words because there is muscle memory involved, and the more senses involved in learning, the greater memory retention the child will have
Improves attentiveness to social gestures of others as well as of themselves
Larger speaking vocabulary and ability to form longer sentences
Earlier reading and larger reading vocabulary
Review Our Other Words in Sign Language
Strides Made this Week
Anthony is drinking out of a big boys sip cup. Mommy told us that he is trying and doing what his older brother Henry is doing. Great job Anthony!
ACTIVITIES FOR NEXT WEEK…
Monday - Paper towel roll chute and Hand and foot painting
Tuesday - Music makers and Sorting balls with a spoon
Wednesday - Sticky note peek-a-boo and Sock puppets
Thursday - Self portrait and Texture walk
Friday- Tub drums and Touch and feel frames
Here are some songs and read aloud to keep our little ones busy.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=amhqwoD0qjw (Baby Bumble Bee )
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OzKY5YHnOTg (who took the cookie from the cookie jar)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C3c8fzbsfOE (clap you hand togther)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RUWLoAzERM8 (Where is baby’s belly button)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RUWLoAzERM8 (brown bear brown bear what do you see)
PLEASE VISIT OUR GOOGLE CLASSROOM TO REVIEW OUR ACTIVITIES :)
https://classroom.google.com/c/NjI4OTA1MTM2NjRa
HAVE A GREAT WEEKEND!