letter city

Letter City!!!

Letter city

Introducing LETTER CITY!!!

On Thursdays we will learn two new letters.  Since I was out last week we have 4 letters to do tomorrow.  

Each building contains objects that start with that letter.  We say the letter, the letter sound, and objects that start with that letter.  Next we each get a cookie - if our cookie has the letter of the week then we can fed it to Cookie Monster, but if it doesn't then we fed it to Oscar.  Then we get to watch a quick ABC Mouse video on that letter.  

The children really enjoy our Letter City circle time. 

After our Letter City unit we will "celebrate" Letters for a whole week by reading alphabet books at circle time, doing alphabet activities for table work, and projects, and MAYBE have a special Letter Snack.

Next weeks books

Next week we start talking about animals in winter - here are the books we will read.
Which animals migrate, are active, and hibernation.
We will also continue to talk about strategies to use when we feel angry.

Thursday and Friday Books

Here are the books I'll be reading for the rest of this week.

Apple name baskets

Apple name baskets

Favorite way to eat an apple

What is your favorite way to eat an apple?

Here is our graph telling our favorite way to eat an apple.

Science table

How many apples can you stack?

Apple pie bakery

We will be busy today creating tasty apple pies at our bakery.

Books for next week

Next week we start our apple theme. Here are the books we will read.

Dramatic play area

Tammy created a beautiful tree for the children to use with the animals.

Our community tree

The teachers did the tree trunk bark rubbing. The morning class made handprint leaves. The afternoon class cut green leaves. The parents sent in the acorns and apples about their child.

Both classes were asked what they knew about trees and I created pictures of their answers and posted it around the tree.

What we know about trees
Owls live in trees
Squirrels live in trees
Monkeys live in trees
Birds live in trees
Flowers grow on trees
Acorns grow on trees
Birds nest are in trees
Leaves fall down
Apples, bananas, oranges, lemons grow on trees
Humans can cut down trees
Skin on trees = bark
Trees sway
Beavers cut down trees with their sharp teeth
Leaves grow on trees