Sorry this is a day or two late. I was having trouble getting pictures uploaded. Last week was a really fun and productive week. We went on a field trip to the Children's Museum in Boston and had a lot of fun. There was a huge Hood milk carton outside to greet us, and all of the rooms in the museum were so amazing. We spent most of our time in the music room, water play, bubble room, and an arcade type room. The students have fun exploring, discovering, and playing with each other. We were greeted by such nice staff and at one point it even seemed like we had the museum to our self. When it was finally time to head back to school, everyone was hungry and exhausted. We quickly ate our lunch and took a very long nap :-) !
Last week, we continued working on our collaborative paintings, playdoh activities, and iPad eBooks. The students work hard on activities during circle learning time in order to gain access to an eBook on the iPad. We have read the Three Little Pigs, Toy Story, Monsters INC, and the Jungle Book. The interactive features of the books on the iPad help the children follow along in reading and keep their interest. Of course, I switch between old fashion traditional hard back books, but also stay up to date with technology by using eBooks. The combination of the two are great tools for learning.
The students in both the pre-school and toddler room have been practicing their fine motor skills by tracing the shapes of letters with bingo markers. Students are attempting to hit circles accurately within the shape of the letter. We will be working on this each week - to help us learn letter recognition but also to help the students to have better accuracy within their fine motor skills and abilities. They are also able to translate this recognition into being able to write and recognize their own names and also the names of their peers.
We also continued with shape and color recognition, and also counting numbers. I think in the next upcoming weeks I am going to mix in more complex vocabulary flash cards along with noun recognition. The students are really getting good at these recognition and understanding and are benefiting from the constant recognition, but I still believe it is important to mix it up a little to keep them interested and entertained while learning!
For this weeks art activity, we were working with color wonder markers by crayola. This included scratch art pictures and using magic markers to reveal color on magical paper. It was really fun and the students enjoyed the "no mess" markers. The markers only worked on the magic paper and couldn't get on their hands or table! It was really fun to watch them work.
We also celebrated "Winter Fest" at the hospital last week which included a real live magician showing us some tricks in the gym along with a great band to play music for us. We had a lot of fun even though we are kind of bummed that it is still so cold that we can call a carnival this time of a year a "winter" fest...
I hope everyone had a great St Patricks Day weekend and celebration. I was at the South Boston parade myself and had a lot of fun. We did a lot of fun celebration in the classroom which included green edible playdoh....:-) Pictures to follow in next weeks post!!
Thanks for stopping by...
Best,
Allison
No comments:
Post a Comment