Chicka Chicka Boom Boom! Is the book of the week. If you haven’t come across the video on youtube, it is quite catchy. I find myself singing it long after the school day is over. This is another book that I enjoy to start off the school year. Learning your ABCs and being able to identify letters is a big part of preschool. Learning that letters are made up of lines, and those lines form letters, and together they create words is a foundational step to learning. Each student is at a different stage of this step. Some are working on making vertical and horizontal lines. Some student can say the letters of the alphabet, while others are able to point. Some kiddos know their name, some are beginning to know their classmates name as well. This week and all school year we will developing these skills about our own name and our peers. This week we will do many activities that work on name recognition and for students to begin to recognize their name in print and to respond when they hear their name. On Monday, students worked to create a multi-step project incorporating many skills including names. Students first colored a palm tree using green and brown crayons. Then they cut out their tree to then glue on a piece of paper. Fine motor skills include holding a crayon and working on their grasp. Additionally we are developing those tricky scissor skills, holding the scissor with our thumbs up and holding the scissor out away from us and not inwards. Be on the lookout for another instagram post once we have finished our project! Sensory tub fun! The sensory tub this week contains lentil beans, garbanzo beans, and foam letters from a puzzle purchased at the Dollar Tree. To make the tree I used a paper towel roll and covered it with a brown felt square. I used green pipe cleaners and green foam sheets to make the leaves that I put in with the felt square before rolling it all together and sealing with velcro squares. What you can do! Letters and words are all around us. They are part of our everyday lives. Pointing them out while on a walk or in the car creates a moment of joint attention between you and your child. It is teaching your child that letters are words are important to you and helps your child generalize that letters and words are not only at school but all around them.
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