Froggy Gets Dressed by Jonathon London

This week we have enjoyed putting the finishing touches on our class book modeled after Polar Bear, Polar Bear What Do You Hear?  It should be all ready for us to enjoy next week.  We have also enjoyed focusing on a new book; Froggy Gets Dressed by Jonathon London.  The students LOVED this book!!  In addition to completing activities focused on these two books, the students have also been sharpening their language and math skills with academic based centers.   

On Wednesday morning, as the students came in, they completed a worksheet which reinforced their cutting and matching skills.  

Our three centers for Wednesday included letter and sight word magnet matching, drawing pictures for our class book, and puzzles.

  

The class book drawing center also included  writing practice in which the students  wrote the name of the animal or object they chose to be in our book.



After centers we read Froggy Gets Dressed. This story is about a frog named Froggy who wants to go play in the snow.  However, every time he gets dressed and goes outside his mother reminds him that he has forgotten to put an article of clothing on; his pants, his shirt, his jacket, and the students' favorite his underwear.  Unfortunately, Froggy has dressed and undressed so many times he eventually becomes too tired to go play in the snow and goes back to bed.

On Thursday our centers included a Froggy Gets Dressed activity, a sight word activity, and a math activity. We also had a couple of overflow centers which included a science center and a book center.  

At the Froggy Gets Dressed center, the students had a great time dressing Froggy.  The students had to put  Froggy's clothes on correctly so that he would not be too tired to go outside and play in the snow.  

At our sight word center, the students used clothespins with letters written on them to match the letters of a sight word on an index card.  Not only does this activity reinforce letter recognition but pinching clothespins strengthens the muscles used for writing.  

The math center involved one-to-one correspondence, in which the students used their fine motor skills to place the correct amount of stickers in squares that corresponded to the numbers written on their paper.

 

Enjoying our science center.  There were shells, rocks, and magnifying glasses.  In this picture one student is holding a shell up to another student's ear so that they may hear the ocean.

After centers and before snack, we used the sentence starter 'In the winter I like to wear...' to discover what   articles of clothing the students like to wear in the winter.  This sentence starter produced some very practical and very cute ideas for winter wear.