Wednesday, February 29, 2012

Happy Leap Day! We talked at Calendar about the significance of February 29 and how the students won't see it again for another four years. We also bid adieu to February as we get ready to say hello to the month of March! Lots of exciting things are coming up this month, which you will get to make note of when we send calendars home tomorrow. Here we are nurturing our crafty sides today.

 

We also tried out some more new hands-on centers today. We rotated through a number beading center, the sight word center, an alphabet center, a counting center, and a magnet center. It was quite a fun and eventful learning experience.

Rolling out the Playdoh for the alphabet center

A work in progress

The finished product and some very proud students

Here is our numbers center. Students ordered numbers 1-20 correctly and placed them in the Playdoh stand.

 Our beading center contained pipe cleaners flagged with numbers 1-20. Students had to recognize the number and then count and string the matching number of beads onto the pipe cleaner. They did a great job!

Our magnet center was very cool! Ms. Kathleen scored the class magnet wands, and we used them to move objects like paper clips, pipe cleaners, and craft brads around.

During Circle Time, we tried out a new activity called a Light Box. We placed various objects on top of the light box to determine which ones were transparent and which were not. The kids really enjoyed this activity.

Landon was our leader today. He did a great job!

Everyone earned a sticker today, which is fantastic! Many students have reached ten stickers. We chose a toy from the treasure box today (the toys were donated), and tomorrow we will celebrate with cookies. Please continue to encourage your children to earn their stickers. We have some students who are very close, and they are looking forward to earning a special treat! Anyone who would like to donate items for us to use in the treasure box like small toys, bouncy balls, pencils, erasers, toy cars or small dolls, or homemade sweet treats, please let me or Ms. Hill know. Here are the kids playing with their "treasures."

Tomorrow will be a very fun day! We have music with Ms. Kaitlin, and we are making a kangaroo to hold all of our groovy Kk words. See you then!