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**Please send a clean, undecorated, milk jug if you have not yet for Valentine's Day Buckets.
With all the craziness of the snow day(s) we didnt get to do many shadow activities, but shadows were brought into our centers this week.
In puzzles and games, a Valentine's day dice roll to see which is larger and which is smaller was introduced. They are loving this game!
Discovery center has the special projector (shadow machine) to allow students to play with shadows and light. Before introducing it to discovery center, students did a project with me in small group. Students evaluated the color of shadows, what shadows looked like, and that shadows are not always black/gray. It was amazing to hear them say so the light cant get through the shape so it makes a shadow?
Monday we voted on if we thought the groundhog would see his shadow or not. A lot of kids thought he would see his shadow, but we were wrong this time. As with the gender reveal, we talked a lot about how this is our guess and it does not change what is already happening so we have to accept the results later.
The afternoon class had time to do another shadow project. Students first cut out their groundhogs, they then got them stapled on and they laid their chalk down and covered the whole paper on chalk. Like chalk can't go through the white paper, light cant go through a ground hog. When you lift up the groundhog, he has a shadow!
Each week we watch letter videos from "Have Fun Teaching" and the students are really picking up the names of letters, formations, and the sounds of letters. Check out these videos with you child! Click HERE.
The Tuesday project of letter of the week is to decorate a letter with something that starts with the letter. This week we decorated the letter J with actual Jell-o. Students are getting good at making predictions of what they think they will be decorating with based on words that start with that sound. On Thursday, our letter of the week project was to read a page from our alphabet book, J is for Jaguar.
Students also do a maze of the letter helping get from one object to another starting with that letter, find and color all of the letter, color a page of something that starts with that letter, and make a crown at the end of the week to be the Kings and Queens of the letter!
We also do a handwriting sheet. This is important because writing the letters correctly helps with efficiency as well as learning cursive down the line. We ALWAYS START AT THE TOP. Please encourage students to write the letter correctly! This came home on the blue sheets from break.
Theme: Valentine's Day. Love
Letter of the Week: Bb
AM Snack: Ashauer
PM Snack: Singh