Friday, December 9, 2011

First Week in December 2011

We are back!!!  My vacation was busy... yet, my "to do" list hardly got touched.  I really don't like when that happens because now I am stressing about how I am going to get it all done.  Ugh!!!  Any how... daycare is back in a normal routine and we accomplished pretty much this past week.  Here is what we did...

I introduced the letter Jj this week and we completed the following letter book.  Here are the pictures of it and here is a link where you can download the pages I made.

 The cover is a jar of jam and we colored the jar and the letter Jj's.

 On the left we put together 3-piece puzzles of the upper and lowercase Jj's and we colored
the part of the jingle bell that had the letter Jj in them.  On the right we used the book "Get
Set for the Code" and found the one that was different on the top and we did a pre-writing
activity on the bottom.

 On the left we used "Get Set for the Code" and we used clues to find the Jj picture the clue
was talking about and then I changed up the directions trying to make them at least two step directions.  We also traced letter Jj's.  On the right we searched for letter Jj's in this Letter Hunt

 On the left we drew lines from the "j" to the pictures that start with the /j/ sound which we
got from "Getting Set for the Code" and we traced letter Jj's.  On the right we colored pictures
that started with the /j/ sound in each row which we got from "Getting Set for the Code" and we colored pictures and wrote the letter j for allthe pictures that began with the /j/ sound.

 On the left we wrote "j" for all the pictures that began with the /j/ sound and we traced/printed letter Jj's.  On the right we circled the letter that each picture began with.

 On the left we circled the letter each picture began with and traced/printed letter Jj's.  On the right we
used a page from the first "Explode the Code" book in which we reviewed the "at" family of words.

Christmas Theme
We reviewed the square shape and made a train out of squares and then made them into Christmas trains. 


We talked about Christmas in Sweden and how they were the first to bring Evergreen trees into their homes.  We used dot markers to color the tree and decorated a Christmas tree to go along with what we talked about.  It was fun to watch them decorate these trees as it was quite a project to find the perfect spangles ornaments to put on the trees.




We did a six piece Santa puzzle from Ruth at "A Child's Place" but I'm not sure where she is sharing this.

We also did a number sequence puzzle from 11- 20 from 2 Teaching Mommies.

We made paper plate Santa's from "My Shae Noel ~All things wonderful".


We did a hidden Christmas things page.  Sorry can't tell you where I got this... it was in my files.

We talked about "The King's Day" in Thailand and made crowns as part of our winter holidays unit.

We discussed Hanukkah, made menorah's and completed a hidden picture paper on Hanukkah symbols that we learned about.  We also sang a dreidel song and spun around like dreidels.


We made paper plate Christmas wreaths.  We painted the plate green (it already had the center cut out), I punched holes once they were dry and they laced with red yarn around the outside of the plate, they made glue dots (practicing our control with a glue bottle) and I glittered the glue dots.


 We made presents for somebody we love... dictated responses with lovely illustrations.


We made silver bells by taking a three bells printed on cardstock and cut out, glued them onto aluminum foil, glued the top of the bell and folded over the aluminum foil and rubbed so we could cut them out again.  We then decorated with glitter glue (again practicing our control) and we strung them together with red yarn to hang from our ceiling.

And lastly, we did a dot-to-dot picture of a present in which they illustrated something they would like to get for Christmas and dictated what it was.


Ok... I'm tired... but there is more...

We did a visual discrimination page in which we finished the picture and then colored the picture.

We measured... a skill they are just starting to do well with.

And we talked about feelings.  We did a happy/sad feeling game with the faces on a popsicle stick.  We read "Sammy the Snowman" (sorry not sure where this came from) but as you read you decide how Sammy felt and put the face that corresponds with that feeling onto the page, and then we did our own feeling books.









And that was our week.  Hope you enjoyed seeing what we did.
Best,
Rose

4 comments:

  1. So many fun activities!! Love the wreath plates - those came out great! Thanks for linking up to TGIF! Looking forward to seeing what you've been up to again next week!
    Beth =-)

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