Congratulations 2012 Pre-K Graduates!
We explored Alaska’s Snowy Owl in PreK today. Then, we worked on strengthening our fine motor muscles as we created our own Snowy Owl by tearing white paper and gluing it into the shape of a Snowy Owl. Click on the picture below to watch the video we viewed during group time about the Snowy Owl.
We created a home for our new word family today. Our focus this week is the -all family. This one is a bit tricky because we cannot sound out the word all, it is a true sight word that we must be able to recognize by sight only. We added -all family members to our homes and took them home to read to our own families.
We used a variety of textured papers today to create our own forest habitat. We have been learning about the forest habitat of Alaska this month and the animals who make their homes there. We have focused on the Great Gray Owl and Bald Eagle. Next week we will be talking about many more animals that we may find among the trees of the forests of Alaska. Click on the picture below to see the video we watched to learn about the Bald Eagle.
We focused last week on number words while reading the book, Lost Feathers by Bruce Larkin. Our week was full of number word activities including coloring by number word and graphing a number word. We are becoming better readers every day in preparation for Kindergarten! Kindergarten Here We Come!
Today, we explored the diverse variety of birds that are found in the State of Alaska on our Smartboard, during group time, through photos and videos. During our Art Group we drew our own flock of birds that we thought might be a good addition to the ones we discovered.
Our focus this week will be number words. We will be reading the book, Lost Feathers, by Bruce Larkin to become familiar with number words in text. Today we started it off by building, tracing and writing number words one and two. We will continue to number ten throughout the week.
We took a new approach to egg decorating by marbleizing shaving cream and water color paints then creating a print by pressing our watercolor paper into the cool, messy creation.
Sorting, graphing, counting, and comparing quantities of sets were all involved in our Jelly Bean Math Activity!
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