We had a great first week of school! I am already wearing a smile as I write this, knowing that I am in for a fantastic year! We centered our learning around the book "The Very Hungry Caterpillar" by Eric Carle this week. We are going to work hard on recognizing and writing our names this month. These caterpillars below were great name recognition practice. Not only did we have to recognize the letters in our name, but also what order that they go in. Your children did a great job! And, to top it off, we traced the letters for some great name writing practice!
During circle time, we read the story about the hungry caterpillar, and then we played this hungry caterpillar game where the caterpillar spins around looking for some food, and we toss fruit at him and try to get it to stick to him.
We also learned the hokey pokey letter song. This helps us practice with our straight and curvy lines. Check out our letters!
We put together some name puzzles, and then traced our names in cereal. You can do this at home as homework for some great letter formation practice.
One of our centers taught us about small, medium, and large. We had fun putting the little miniature objects on their correct mat in size order.
We worked on our fine motor skills by stringing cereal caterpillars on pipe cleaner.
We used our light tables and straight and curvy lines to form our letters.
And, we celebrated our first birthday of the year! A very Happy Birthday to our beautiful Belle!
Continue to work on your child's name at home with them. And, read, read, read!! :)
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