I hope everyone is enjoying their long weekend and extra day off. We did get a little bit more snow this weekend, so I hope everyone stayed indoors and enjoyed their time with family and friends. I know that I didn't move from my warm bed practically all weekend--it was really nice!
As for last week, the students had a lot of fun creating Valentine's Day themed art projects. We made heart ornaments, heart mosaics, and used shaving cream to make heart shaped marbled paper. We used the marbled paper to send to people in the hospital as a Thank You for some of the recent gifts and donations we received. The students really like playing with the shaving cream, and for the toddlers we used non-toxic foam paint to create marbled paper. You can see the heart mosaics in the windows of our classrooms, and some I have already started sending home to parents.
We had a lot going on this week which included a visit from the New England Revolution soccer team that included a lot of fun games, prizes, and art projects. The students had a lot of fun meeting the players and engaging in activities.
We also had a special visit from Elmo (via the iPad) and he sung the ABC's with us! We are having a lot of fun learning the letters of the alphabet, how to write our names, and we are focusing on one letter a week to really start to understand what we're learning. Last week, it was all about the letter "A". We will finish up this short week with the letter "A" and then introduce to the students the letter "B" and make connections to words and the letters in our name. We are also going to continue to play our shape and color card flash game where the students earn tickets with correct responses in order to earn time with an iPad or to pick the movie for movie day Friday. We also started learning the months, days of the week, and the terms "yesterday" and "tomorrow".
As we all know, we have gotten A LOT of snow this season. So this week, to make the kids have fun with the snow we had outside, I decided to make snow sensory bins for the students to engage in. The students put their gloves on and made snow paint, hunted for dinosaurs in the snow, and just generally played and molded the snow. It kept the children busy for quite some time and the snow actually took a long time to melt!! It really has been a cold and crazy window.
I hope you enjoy the pictures from last week. As a reminder, we are going to the Museum of Fine Arts Boston on February 24th, 2014. Please, if you haven't already, bring in your permission slips so all students can attend. It will be a lot of fun and very engaging and culturally informative.
For this week, the students are going to explore tracing and making art pea pods. We are slowly getting ready for our renovations in the Medical Day Care so we are getting excited for our move into another part of the building temporarily while we get new designs and a fresh start to our classrooms.
Thanks for stopping by the blog!
Best,
Allison
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