When it was time to sing our 'hello song' about the dentist, they were ready to sit and focus. I was very impressed with what they are remembered about the dentist and putting their ideas into sentences. Every time we finished an activity, we put one piece from our 'dentist box' into a bag to use later in the day. They earned the bag before lunch time and were able to take turns playing dentist. We were very lucky that Even brought in a doctor bag along with his hamster, Pickles, so we could also play vet. I saw more playing 'together' in the last few days which was very exciting!
The kids threw basketballs...they threw bean bags...they threw tennis balls....and they threw balls to each other with Ms. Angela today. She had four stations set up and the kids went from one to the next. I suggested that the kids choose before they go and then rotate with a timer, but they didn't need that at all! Ms. Angela let them stand up and go wherever they wanted. I was very impressed with the kids.
Walking back into the room, the kids found letters on their chair and we thought of words that started with the corresponding sound. I help a lot with kind of activity now, but I can tell we are going to get better and better at this phonological awareness skill.
We are learning the 3 months of Fall (and, yes, I know that part of December is technically Fall, but we aren't going to be technical about this one!) We say the names together, the kids take turns finding the month and putting it on the board, and then put pictures of what happens in that month on the board to build a context for them to remember.
Ms. Cortney started to read the book, "Green Eggs and Ham", focusing on the rhyming words. It's such a fun book and gives the kids plenty of opportunities to hearing and playing with different rhymes. Reading Dr. Suess books with your kids at home would a great way to have fun with words.
