MONDAY 1-30-17 and TUESDAY 1-31-17

MARVELOUS MONDAY 1-30-17

ASK ME ABOUT...

...where I went and what I did for Work Stations.

...the new password.

...what I did in Spanish.

...in my letter group.

...our new "Star of the Week".

 ~STAR OF THE WEEK~

Ella is our Star of the Week!  We learned that Ella's favorite food is chili and she wants to be a Pop Star when she grows up.  Ella shared photos, a structure she build with Legos and her favorite story.  We enjoyed getting to know you better, Ella!

~EXTENDED DAY PRE-K~ 

Today was swimming!

 TERRIFIC TUESDAY 1-31-17

ASK ME ABOUT...

...what I learned at Assembly from the Kindergarten classes.

...new activities at Free Choice.

...what I did in Music.

...what letters I learned how to write.

...what I learned about tally marks.

...

~FREE CHOICE LEARNING~

 Nola practices making upper case letters using wooden pieces.

 Josie and Layla work on a puzzle of the United States of America.

 

 Lily enjoys a book in the Book Nook.

 Ruth works with a new manipulative, called hexabits.

 

 Heath, Robert, Jordan and Alex are pictured below building a structure with pipes.

 

Anahí and Calvin building in the Construction Zone.

 We decorated our letter "X" with exclamation points!

 ~CALENDAR~

We have added a thermometer to our calendar time.  We will check the temperature each morning and indicate it on the thermometer pictured below.

 

~HANDWRITING~

In the lesson pictured below, children learned and practiced the correct way to write an upper case "F" and an upper case "E".  Ask your child to show you how to write it! 

Lily uses the wooden pieces to build the letter "F'.

 ~CHINESE NEW YEAR~

We read the story, The Runaway Wok, to learn more about Chinese New Year.  Children brought home a "Year of the Rooster" page and a special gift from the Chinese families at Academy in honor of Chinese New Year.

 ~TALLY MARKS~

Children learned and practiced how to make tally marks, using popsicle sticks.  They also learned the rhyme below to help them remember when to make a tally mark.

~EXTENDED DAY PRE-K~

Children visited Mr. Cicetti for Art today.  Many children made puppets!

WEDNESDAY 1-25-17 and FRIDAY 1-27-17

WONDERFUL WEDNESDAY 1-25-17

ASK ME ABOUT...
...where I went and what I did for Work Stations.
...the green dots, the red dots and the yellow dots on our snowman poem.
...what I did in Spanish.
...what I did in my Letter Group.
 
~SNOWMAN POEM~
Children can practice various skills when reading our snowman poem.  To help with one-to-one correspondence when reading, children know that each green dot represents a word.  The yellow dots remind children to pause and the red dots remind children to stop.

 
Adding environmental print to our "We can read!" notebook.

~EXTENDED DAY PRE-K~
Today we did a Tangram activity on the I-pads.

FANTASTIC FRIDAY 
ASK ME ABOUT...
...doing Morning Meeting with our 3rd grade buddies.
...what greeting we taught our buddies.
...what activity our buddies taught us.
...where I went and what I did for Work Stations.
...what letter we learned and practiced writing.
...how we practiced writing the letter with a small chalkboard, a wet sponge, a dry towel and a piece of chalk.
...what I did in P.E.
...the story, A Giraffe and A Half.

~MORNING MESSAGE~
We are excited for Spirit Day!  Ask your child to read the morning message to you. 

~MORNING MEETING~

We joined our 3rd grade buddies and did Morning Meeting together. 

~STORYTIME~
Today's story was filled with rhymes and silliness!

Since it is Academy Spirit Day, we decorated our letter "V" with vikings!

~P.E. CLASS~
We had fun with the parachute in P.E.! 
(sorry for the blurry photo)

During Free Choice, Jordan and Robert fill in the 100 tray with 100 number tiles.  Way to go!

 ~HANDWRITING~
Children learned and practiced writing the letter "L" today.  

 Using a chalkboard, children practice writing the "L" using a wet sponge, then a dry towel and finally a piece of chalk.

 Next, children practice writing the letter in their handwriting books.

~EXTENDED DAY PRE-K~
At the end of the afternoon, we headed to the gymnasium for an all-school pep rally!

MONDAY 1-23-17 and TUESDAY 1-24-17

MARVELOUS MONDAY 1-23-17

ASK ME ABOUT...

...the new password.

...watching Peter and the Wolf in Music class.

...our new "Star of the Week".

...horizontal, vertical and diagonal lines.

...my handwriting book.

 ~CIRCLE OF FRIENDS~

 ~FREE CHOICE LEARNING~

Anahí counts the snowmen and snowflakes all the way to 100!

 Using materials from the Creation Station to create!

 Busy builders...

 Olivia gets creative with the snow dough.

 ~STAR OF THE WEEK~

Ruth is our Star of the Week!  We learned that Ruth's favorite food is a hot dog and she wants to be a Detective when she grows up.  Thank you for sharing your photos, your magnifying glass and your alphabet book.  We enjoyed getting to know you better, Ruth.

~HANDWRITING~
We started our handwriting program for learning to write upper case letters.  During our first lesson, we discussed horizontal, vertical and diagonal lines.   We practiced writing vertical lines from top to bottom and horizontal lines from left to right.

TERRIFIC TUESDAY 1-24-17

ASK ME ABOUT...
...what I did in my math group.
...what we did in P.E.
...the snowman poem we learned.
...what we used to decorate the letter "W".

We decorated the letter "W" with whales.

~EXTENDED DAY PRE-K~
Today was a cooking day.  We started by reading the story, Walter the Baker, by Eric Carle.  Then, we made homemade soft pretzels.