Jan. 26, 2009

Parents,
This morning we ate breakfast and drew a picture of an octopus in our journals. For our fine motor work we created pictures with shape blocks, drew with markers, fed corn to the pig, and put pegs in number boards and counted. During circle time we determined that it's rainy today. We put the gray cloud and rain drops over the tree. I squirted everyone with the water bottle so they could feel rain. We also dressed the weather bears in their rain jackets. We counted to 26 during calendar time and our movement song was "Button Factory". We played outside with our Pre-K friends. I began reading "Snow Friends" for story time. We noticed that one of the characters is an otter and that starts with the letter "O", our letter of the week. We practiced the letter "O" sound. We also felt the cover of the book. We decided that the snow part felt rough to our fingers and the rest of the cover felt smooth. During centers we finished the decorating of our snowballs. I popped pop corn today and we both ate and glued popcorn. We also glued on some brown seeds that one of the children found outside. The pet center was also open today. We observed Nibbles, the guinea pig, eating a carrot. We took turns holding the carrot while she took little bites. We were very careful to only touch Nibbles with one finger so she wouldn't get scared. We had lunch and played on the playground with Pre-K. After rest we'll continue our review of shapes in Pre-K math centers.
Enjoy this ever so slightly rainy day!
Kali Parsons