Tuesday, February 25, 2014

Letter R

Finger play/Rhyme:
"I can raise my right hand"

I can raise my right hand.
I can raise it high.
I can wave my right hand.
At an airplane in the sky.

Language & Literature:
Little Red Riding Hood by Trina Schart Hyman
Rumplestiltskin by Paul O. Zelinsky

Arts & Crafts:
Rainbow craft- coloring the rainbow and using glue and glitter to make them sparkle!

Homework: 
Make your own Robot at home! I LOVED seeing all of these robots come back to school and each child talking about their robot and what they named it! Thank you for working on these with your child. 

Circle Time:
Recycling - what things can we recycle and how can we use certain things again? Encouraged them to go home and find things that could be recycled to use on their robots.

Science:
Rocks and discovering their different sizes and shapes and textures. We talked about the colors and sizes of rocks we found outside and whether they were rough or smooth, flat or jagged. We sorted the rocks by size and counted how many rocks we found. 

Music:
Row Row Row Your Boat
I've Been Working on the Railroad

Outdoor play:
Rabbit Race Relay- oh we had fun with this activity!