Stranger Danger, our feelings, and more!

This week we talked about two important subjects, our feelings (letter F) and stranger danger!  We read the berenstein bears book "Hug and Make Up", which talks about how every "bear" has a bad day, and everybody feels a little grumpy/angry sometimes but we can work through it and we will be ok.  We also had some pumpkin faces that I held up and we talked about each feeling they were showing.  Then, the kids all showed me their happy, sad, mad, and excited faces. 

We used our peg boards to practice our counting and number recognition.  And, just to let you know, these two both knew both of these numbers by sight even though they have them upside-down in the picture. :)

We played  one of the good old classics, memory. 

The kids built puzzles in the dramatic play area, where they proudly displayed them when they were completed as you can see Brynlyn and Riley doing above.

We continued to talk about shapes, and made our own shape characters out different foam shapes!  We also practiced making shapes with drinking straws. 

Our art projects this week were our "bunch of feelings" grapes where we drew the many feelings we have as faces on our bunch of grapes.  We also made a bushy tailed squirrel out of shredded wheat.  Look how much fun we had below:

For our stranger danger lesson, we read a book about strangers and how we know if someone is a stranger (anyone we don't know), and did a maze where we tried to get from the start to the police officer without encountering any strangers.  I suggest you all reiterate this topic with your children (which I know you do).  They are so innocent, and naive.  We don't talk to, go with, take candy from, or get in a car with a stranger!

We reviewed the letters D,E, and F this week.  We used our straight and curvy lines to build our letters.  Look at cute Paige excited and clapping because she made the letter D!

We talked about our "helping hands" and made a page that you will see in your end of year scrapbook! :)

We used the blocks to build words, or to count.  This was in the dramatic play area, so they could built it however they wanted, as long as they could count back to me how many blocks they used.  Aydon did a great job counting his tower.

We didn't learn any new songs this week. ( I will start posting when we do).  We did sing the alphabet, and as we did I pointed to each letter.  This is something simple for you to do at home.  Just write down the alphabet on a piece of paper and point to the letters with your children as you sing.  They will get to know each letter by sight and its announciation (instead of J,K,eminem, O,P). 

Our stranger danger motto:  "When in danger or in doubt, don't be afraid to give a shout.  Stranger danger, stranger danger!"