Welcome to week 7! We have been having a great time in class and during play and have learned lots of great things – keep reading to find out more!
Letters of the week:
We practiced letters Uu and Ll – how to write them, say their sounds and found words starting with them.
We have practiced all our reading words and I am so pleased to see everyone making huge efforts to blend the sounds together. Please keep practicing these words at home, even if it’s for 5 minutes a day! Remember, practice makes perfect!
Here some of the children are starting to be able to write words with less and less help!
Math:
We have practiced counting, some of us even up to 100! We are also learning how to count in whole 10s. We have also been making numbers larger than 10 and practicing our number writing.
Pockets:
This week we have continued to learn about our community and the people that help us. We talked about where community helpers work and what they do. We also read and acted out a story about a cat stuck up a tree – the trash collector could not help, the gardener could not help, an finally a firefighter came to the rescue and helped the cat down.
Values:
This week we learned that it is important to cooperate, working together as a team. This way, we can finish jobs better and quicker than working on our own! We acted out how to put out a fire, wash dirty dishes and clean the classroom by cooperating.
Art:
This week, we made puppets of community helpers. We used paper, glue, and decorations like a doctor’s stethoscope and a gardener’s flowers.
We also made our own paint using shaving cream and explored mixing in color and feeling the new texture. Why don’t you search the internet for other ways to make your own paint?