Our Senses

 

We used our hands to move big things like the parachute? It felt silky and smooth as we moved it in many directions. 

We used our sense of touch to 

feel what was inside the bag before making guesses.  Everyone wanted a turn to choose something from the bag. 

New vocabulary words emerged as we described the textures that we felt.

A listening game using a music box helped us focus on our sense of hearing. We hid our eyes and on the count of 1-2-3, started listening.

Using our sense of taste, we tried something sweet, something salty, and something sour. It was a little tricky to differentiate those tastes and describe them accurately.

Art projects went 3-D with recycled juice and marker lids. We used a lot of glue to make this touchable display.











Combining a review of some basic shapes and our senses, we matched them together to make a robot face.

 

A fun read aloud about morning sounds had us using our ears and eyes as we enjoyed this book.

A special new addition to our classroom books is the A-B-C book filled with photos of many things found in our classroom and experiences through our school year.

Be looking for it to come home in your child's school bag soon!

Valentine's Day

We celebrated Valentines Day with a party and lots of new activities. Thank you to our party parents Michele and Joel!











Using a table full of foam stickers, glue and shiny "jewels", we decorated mailboxes and door hangers.








Joel helped us to play some gross motor games: Ball toss into a heart-shaped wreath and pin the Heart on the Bumble Bee.


















Michele helped us to figure out a fun game of Valentine bingo and we got to eat our candy markers!














We continued talking about our hearts and how they work.











After exercising, we felt our hearts beating fast.




We learned about how our heart pumps the blood that travels all over our body.












We used blue and red chips to follow and create patterns. We know that our blood looks red, but it's hard to believe that it ever looks blue.













Our pottery projects came back shiny!










Other art projects included stringing beads and foam hearts to make necklaces.























We were back outside with the warmer weather!










Hooray!

Love

Love is in the air at LAP this week.











We talked about Valentines Day and prepared for it with lots of art activities.















We used stamps, ink pads and crayons in the color scheme of red, pink, and purple.










Fine motor practice prepares our hands for writing.













We talked about the people we love (Moms & Dads topped the list!)















Heart collages were fun to construct using glue and sparkly sequins.



















We used our scissor skills to cut out hearts from folded paper.







What a surprise when we followed the curved line and opened the paper!



















New pink dough was the perfect medium for creating heart-shaped "cookies".









Many of our moms and dads came to school to help us paint pottery from Earth & Fire.

Nursery Rhymes

Nursery Rhymes and rhymes in general were our focus this week.






We began with " The 3 Little Kittens".



Pre-cut mittens were on the art table, ready to be decorated and hole-punched.


Our friends worked hard to cover them with stickers, punch a hole (or many holes) in each mitten and thread a piece of string through the holes to join them together.













"One, Two, Buckle My Shoe" had us counting again.









We stamped the numerals 1-10 on our paper.
Recognizing the number stamps when they are out of order can be a difficult task.






Some numbers look suspiciously alike.








"Jack be nimble" was our favorite. We all took turns jumping over a "candlestick" and adding our own names to the rhyme.















We tried rhyming something with our names at Group time. Recognizing our name cards still takes a lot of thought as we have five friends whose names all begin with the letter "C".



















A new item was placed in the sensory table this week.


It's a water wheel that does pretty well in the rice.




Our friends learned to open and close the valve that allows the rice to run through and turn the wheel. This was a very popular center for the week.





Finally, the letters "Jj" for Jump and "Rr" for Rhyme were practiced in the handwriting center.