There are certain people that help to keep us safe.
Other things such as signs, rules, and helmets also help keep us safe. We talked about some of these things this week, along with learning our own phone numbers. We made a phone number bracelet to help us to remember it, and we also learned this song:
(tune of Old McDonald)
___ ___ ___ and ___ ___ ___-___ ___ ___ and ___.
Go ahead and give me a call.
I won't mind at all.
With a ring, ring here; and a ring, ring there.
Here a ring, there a ring, everywhere a ring, ring.
___ ___ ___ and ___ ___ ___-___ ___ ___ and ___.
Practice this at home with your kiddos a few times, and they will know their number in a jif.
We also practiced our phone numbers using this center filled with magnetic numbers and cookie sheets.
We had phones at this center that we could practice typing our phone numbers with the numbers on the phone, and we also had these red phones that when we talked into, we could hear our self talk back.
These puzzle vehicles were fun too. We talked about how if we are ever lost we can always look for a police officer or person in uniform. These emergency vehicles drive fast to help people in trouble. We made two firetrucks, two police cars, and two ambulances.
We also talked about our feelings this week. Everybody has them, and we should always treat others how we would like to be treated. In this center we talked about how we felt this day, along with how we like to feel, how we don't like to feel, and how we like to make others feel.
We used some different flash cards that had a bunch of different feelings on them (like the usual happy, sad, and mad. But also others like being left out, annoyed, and mean), and acted out these situations out with our people puppets.
For a writing center, we also had this feelings chart. We decided how we were feeling that day, and wrote our name on one of the cardboard people, and put our person in that feeling slot. Some of us even did two because we were feeling more than one emotion that day.
Check out Paige and her feelings faces:
Excited!
So Sad!
and mad! We all have those days, right!
But, when we are having those mad or sad days, we can get out our happy face puzzles we made, and put together our happy face!
We talked about how if we all stick together, it will help us to be safe, along with help us all to be happy. We used our sticky blocks to make people that stuck together.
We also practiced some problem solving skills this week by figuring out what shape fits into our tanagram pictures, and we did some skills building with our flashcards and hot dot dogs.
Books of the week: The Berenstein Bears: Safe and Sound by Jan and Mike Berenstein
and
When Sophie gets angry, really, really angry by Molly Bang.
Words of the week: This week we spelled both Mad and Sad.
Stars:
We had the pleasure of learning about this pretty princess/fashionable fisherwoman, and most lovable Lexi!
and our dancing diva, modeling missy, cuddly camper, and always happy Haylee!
