Happy Dr. Seuss week families!

This week in Aspen class we talked all about keeping our bodies healthy with healthy food and nutrition.  But Friday was all about Dr. Seuss. We talked all about how Dr. Seuss is an author and what it means to be an author. The children also practiced finding rhyming words in Dr. Seuss books and worked on “Cat in the Hat” coloring sheets. For small group lessons this week we worked with the children on matching two sets of number cards and practicing letter sounds while tracing with their finger.

In circle time this week we read the books Little Green Peas, Eating the Alphabet, I’m Gonna Like Me, How the Crayons Saved the Rainbow, and Gerald McBoing Boing. We all worked together to fill up a plate with all the food groups and practiced sorting fruits and vegetables. This week in circle we also started and observed an experiment comparing how gummi bears and corn react when they are submerged in air and in water. Some of the children enjoyed the experiment so much they talked about eating the gummi bears! This week the children also learned about recording information by making a bar graph recording everyone’s favorite vegetable; broccoli, carrot, potato or corn. It turns out that broccoli is Aspen class’s favorite vegetable. On Thursday the kids worked with apple stamps, with the choice of blue, orange or white paint the kids created their own pieces of art!  Some of the works this week included washing vegetables in a soapy water table, writing with pencils at the easel, looking at The Body Book and fruit and vegetable sorting.

In music this week Ms. Kathleen sang animal songs, listened to animal sounds, danced with scarves and played the bongo drum!  With Ms. Susan in Spanish this week the kids learned more transportation vocabulary and they continued to practice counting and feeling vocabulary.

In literacy this week the children worked on rhyming words and nursery rhymes with Ms. Charlotte.

Have a wonderful weekend!

Ms. Kate, Ms. Megan and Ms. Susie

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