One-to-One Correspondence
Practicing Uppercase M & N
Do You Eat Grass?
We started full swing today after our Thanksgiving Break. We began a new book this week called, “Do you eat grass?” We focused on one-to-one correspondence, comprehension, and sight word recognition during our first reading today. We also began working on writing our numerals from one to ten. We will continue working on this skill during the month of December. Consider practicing at home to help support our learning in the classroom. We also focused on the letter Mm during our writing small group with Miss Katie. The kids did a great job….keep working on those homework folders!
Today in small groups, we practiced the movements the children need to form different letters in the alphabet. We worked on slanted, vertical and horizontal lines on our map of the forest. Then, we had a chance to use our fun Magic Wipe Boards to practice writing our names! They did a great job. Writing with your child even at this young age is a wonderful activity to become more accustomed to holding the pencil/marker correctly and building the strength in the hands that is needed for more fluent writing in the future. The best place to start is with the letters in their name! There is also a wonderful series of prewriting and letter writing books by Kumon. Click on the pictures below to view different books in this series.
Some Children Wrote their Name Independently
Practice Makes Perfect
Pencil Grip is Important!
I did it!
We continued name practice today with our Pumpkin Seed Letters. The preschoolers Identified the first letter of their name and placed pumpkin seeds all around that letter. Our names provide so much exposure to those important letters of the alphabet and are such a great tool for teaching. We talk about the first letter of our name and how it is ALWAYS uppercase while the rest of the letters in our name are lowercase. These types of activities are not only great for letter recognition but they start our students down the road of becoming readers! Children are excited to be able to read their own names and feel very proud when doing so! What a great confidence builder, too!
What is more fun than driving cars through paint to make letters! Today the early 3’s children had the chance to make the letter of the week “H” with cars! They took the cars, covered the wheels in paint and drove over the letter H.
"These are words that tell what my pictures are about..."
"This is me walking the dog and my family is resting."
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