This week, Miss Jeana's class played Out In The Jungle while Miss Jen's class explored Fall Leaves. See last week's post on both.
First, Miss Jeana's class:
We found so many animals!
We found Sea Slugs, Glow Worms. We held up our hands for pretend binoculars.
Sometimes we knew the animal and other times we needed help to identify it.
We told our friends "Come here and see!"
If we knew what the animal sounded like, we talked about that, too.
All the animals and bugs were right at child eye-level.
We talked about WHERE to find them: at home, at the zoo, on the farm, in the sky, under the ground.
There were so many to find.
DO THIS AT HOME: Go on a hunt at the zoo, in your local library, near a farm, or in your own back yard. What animals, birds, and bugs can you find? Check out books on animals, birds, and bugs from your local library.
In Miss Jen's class:
Lots and lots of leaves.
They landed on our heads. We piled them on Miss Jen!
The leaves landed on our laps, our legs, and feet, our hair, our shoulders.
We compared sizes and colors and if they were the same or different.
We asked friends if we could throw the leaves at them.
We talked about if we saw leaves like this at our house yet.
DO THIS AT HOME: Go on a fall walk or a leaf hunt in your own yard. Talk about the different colors, shapes, and sizes. What do you like to do with leaves?
This week Miss Jeana's class' Large Group was different that Miss Jen's class' Large Group. It worked out for each teacher this way. Next week we will switch so both classes get both topics.
This month we're singing Five Little Ghosts by the Kiboomers. The children will have a lot of practice counting from 1-5 and backwards from 5-1. It also gives a lot of practices for the /g/ sound which is our phoneme we are focusing on this month.
In Miss Jeana's classroom we learned about Fall, leaves changing color, and read the book Leaf Man by Lois Ehlert. high/low, same/different, big/little, in front/behind, next
to, throw, roll, leaves, autumn, fall, trees, labeling colors, What/Where/Who,
abstract convo, -ing, plural -s EX:I have red leaves on my tree.
Leaf Man is blowing all over the place. he sees a lot of animals and other things. We tried to guess what he was seeing because all fo the pictures are made from fall leaves. The children were excited when they recognized cows, chickens, and gardens. We talked about if the leaves on trees at their houses were changing yet.
Then Miss Carrie talked about what she liked to do the most with fall leaves - play with them! She brought fall leaves for everyone to play with.
Ms Jeana had leaves in her hair!
DO THIS AT HOME: Go on a fall walk to look at leaves. Talk about shape, color, size, same/different. Take some home.
In Miss Jen's class we went on a Jungle Hunt. Vocabulary and Basic Concepts: jungle, animals, birds, bugs, loud/quiet, gopher,
grasshopper, seagull, eagle, penguin, dog, goat, goldfish, gecko, glow worm,
gazelle, grouse, earwig, grison, sea slug, wart hog, gorilla, pig, frog,
flamingo, jungle, I like/don’t like, Where questions, What questions
Miss Carrie taught us to say:
Binoculars up! Out in the jungle- What do I see? I.....see..... a.....
Miss Carrie put pictures around the room of animals, birds, and bugs that all had a /g/ sound somewhere in their name. We looked for them with our hands up to be pretend binoculars. When we found a picture, we told our friends about it, if we knew what it was, and where we might find it.
We came back to the rug so we could tell the rest of our friends what we found and where we might see it (in the sky, on the farm, at the zoo, in the water).
DO THIS AT HOME: Go to the zoo, a farm, or other places to see animals, birds, or bugs. Talk about if you like them or don't like them, are they big/small, tall/short, and their colors.
