We have officially completed one full with of school with both classes! No one is used to this feeling so I think we were all a little worn out by the end of the week. It was a great week despite our continuing lack of spring weather. We started our new theme of transportation and let me tell you, it has been a HIT! The students have just been loving it and have come up with so many ideas. We made a list of all the kinds of vehicles or ways to get from one place to another and they thought of so many! We also created our own vehicles out of shapes. Look for those outside in the hallway by our room soon. They are so creative! We have also turned our dramatic play center into a highway with cars and car wash to use as well. They have loved using the boxes to drive around and have even added some ideas of their own to this center. They decided to start handing out tickets to speeders! We added a bunch more small cars to our block center to play with and some of the students thought of adding a road in there for the small cars too. Lots of good ideas! Another big attraction has been the addition of a dollhouse in our room. Miss Amy's class was so nice to let us borrow their dollhouse for awhile while they are not using it. That center has now been full ever since! They definitely love when we add new and exciting things to our room.
For small groups this week we worked on lots of writing and drawing (good fine motor practice!). The first group was having the students practice writing their name the "kindergarten way" by using one capital letter and the rest being lowercase. Our second group was called "Write the room" and for this group the students walked around to room and wrote down any words they saw. It was a great activity for the students and the varying levels that they are at. For the last group the students drew a picture. This picture will be a part of a surprise at the end of the year so I can't give away many details ;) Next week we will be working on some small groups based on what the students need to work on to help them at their individual level.
As I mentioned before, we are all getting so tired of the cold weather so we decided to come up with a way to jazz up our indoor recess time. The afternoon class seems to think that inside recess is coolest thing ever! We tried out some Just Dance Kids videos on Youtube and they loved it! They are pretty good too. The teachers could use some extra practice. Anything to get them up and moving on these freezing cold days. Someday spring will come, right?!
We have two more weeks until spring break! Looking ahead, we will continue with transportation this next week and then move on to weather soon. We will be reviewing our numbers this week and focusing on letter Ee. Hopefully that warm up is on the way and we can all get outside and enjoy some fresh air later in the week.
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