Nov. 13, 2008

Parents,
This morning we ate breakfast and drew a picture of a fall tree in our journals. For our fine motor work we drew with dry erase markers, made frogs jump, created structures with oval legos, and created circles by connecting pop beads. During circle time we determined that it's sunny today, counted to 13 and continued our orange/brown (ABAB) pattern during calendar time, and danced to "If You're Happy and You Know it". We played outside with our Pre-K friends. For story time today I read "The Scarecrow's Hat". After I read it we practiced the letter "H" sound. We noticed that we can feel our warm breath when we make the "H" sound. During centers created letter "H" art by gluing hearts and hands on big letter "H"s. Some chose to create patterns. We also began creating a thank you poster for Faith, our PTA President, for taking us on a hay ride. We glued hay (we noticed that it's a letter "H" word!) on the bottom half of a blue poster board. We glued cotton balls on the top half to create clouds in the sky. Ms. Pundt, our counselor, came to our class today. She talked about feelings and what we can do when we have those feelings. If we're sad, scared, or mad we can ignore what a friend is doing, we can use our words, we can walk away, or we can talk to an adult. She encouraged everyone to try the first three first before talking to an adult (unless someone is hurt, of course). We had lunch and played on the playground with Pre-K. After rest we'll do math centers in Pre-K. In my group we'll create fall trees by tracing our hand and arm. We'll glue a leaf on each finger and then write the numbers 1, 2, 3, 4, and 5 on the leaves.
Have a great night!
Kali Parsons
PPCD Teacher
Zilker Elementary
841-0746