I Love My Red Shoes!

 Transition Song: Must Be Santa By Raffi. (Note: we sing the first three verses and without the music.  We sing it much slower that the music.  This is a great song for learning to answer the question Who.)

Vocabulary and Basic Concepts: big/little, same/different, on/off, wet/dry heavy/light, What/Where/Who/When, labeling colors, laces, straps, buckles, slip on, velcro, cry, wear.

This week, we read Miss Carrie's favorite book Pete The Cat: I Love My White Shoes by Eric Litwin and James Dean.

Miss Carrie loves Pete The Cat so much, she dresses like Pete The Cat for Halloween. 

Pete The Cat with RED shoes!

We noticed that Pete's shoes looked the same but they changed to different colors. We sang the song about I Love My White/Red/Blue/Brown/Wet shoes.

Then Miss Carrie brought out a lot of shoes.  Some were big and some were small.  Some looked the same and some looked different.  Some had buckles or laces or velcro.  Some had nothing and just slipped on.  There were so many different colors.  Miss Carrie even brought her Pete The Cat red shoes!

DO THIS AT HOME:  Pull out your shoes.  Match shoes together, talk about same/different, big/small, laces, buckles, velcro, and colors.  And where do shoes go?  Practice putting shoes where they go at your house.

You can find Pete The Cat: I Love My White Shoes at the library.

January Week 1: Snowballs...But No Snow!

 Transition Song:  Colors by The Learning Station

Vocabulary and Basic Concepts: snow, cold, dad, mom, girl, boy, cat, dog, string, buttons, hats, scarves, gloves, strawberry, shell, forks, bells, strings, Who questions, What questions, "I want" phrases.

This week, Miss Carrie brought in a big bag and a book. The book was called Snowballs by Lois Ehlert.

In the book, there was a snow dad, a snow mom, a snow girl, a snow boy, a snow cat, and a snow dog.  Miss Carrie used her camera to put the pictures on the Apple TV so we could look closely at what was on the snow people.  We saw forks, seeds and nuts, berries, popcorn, sticks, and buttons.  We noticed that the birds and squirrels were eating the nuts and seeds.  At the end of the book, the snow people and the snow animals melted.

Miss Carrie had a problem.  She really wanted to make snow people.  But there was no snow outside.  Miss Carrie brought a big bag full of hats, gloves, and scarves to use.  We had to solve her problem.  Some of the kids came up with the solution to dress the teachers like snow people.  Other kids decided that they wanted to dress themselves up like snow people.  There was a lot going on.

Miss Carrie took pictures of everyone and showed them on the Apple TV.  She asked "Who is this?  What are they wearing?"  Sometimes it was hard to tell who the person was and we had to look at their clothes for clues.

DO THIS AT HOME:  Dress up!  Doesn't have to be costumes or cold weather gear.  Dress up in Mom or Dad's clothes and shoes.  Take  a lot of pictures.  Talk about what you see in them.  Send pictures to other family members and have your child tell them what they did (you can support their language but really let your child do as much as they can on their own). 

If we ever get snow - GO PLAY OUTSIDE.  Be sure to drink a lot of hot cocoa afterwards.  Miss Carrie likes whip cream in her cocoa.