Group Meeting: Our message board is working very well. The children are starting to look at the message board as soon as they sit down for our meeting time to see if they can read it without my help. We put lots of picture clues on it to give them a good start.
Story: Crazy Pizza Day is a book that is a guessing game. In the book, it is "Crazy Pizza Day" at the local pizzeria. Pages in the book show the pizza makers creating a pizza that is a little unusual. You have to guess who would eat that pizza. For example, one page shows them putting jewels, pearls, and crackers on a pizza. It's for a pirate (crackers are for the parrot). Another pizza has nuts, bolts, and oil on it. It's for a robot. Ask you child to name another kind of pizza and who it was for.
Small Group: Today we learned how to do Wet, Dry, Try which is part of the Handwriting Without Tears curriculum. The children are given a small chalkboard on which the letter of the week is written. This week it is the letter L. They take a small sponge square that is wet and use it to erase the letter L. Then, they dry it. Finally, they try to make the letter with chalk.
Large Group: We went to the Outdoor Classroom. On Monday, we will begin a new study. It will be about trees. The children have shown interest in the things that have been falling off of the trees in the outdoor classroom. We have collected pine cones, acorns, and seeds. I will send home information about the study on Monday.
Snacks: The morning class had bagels, cream cheese, and juice brought by Addison. The afternoon class had Goldfish and juice brought by Noah. Thank you!
