Look at our Word Wall!

Hello all!

Christmas break is almost here!

We didn't focus much on curriculum this week, since we had our Winter program on Friday. The children sang a few songs, they had a gift exchange, and they had a blast.

We were able to talk about buildings a little. We read this book:

I snuck in some critical thinking skills. At the end of it, we reviewed the types of jobs mentioned in the books and turned it into a word wall near the writing center.

The kids helped cut out the pictures, which I photocopied from the book. Fair Use is amazing.

The kids did great remembering the vocabulary and it sparked a discussion about construction tools. Then of course we had to get out the tablet and look up machines on YouTube. Isn't technology wonderful? 

One day, our talk turned to Christmas trees during our morning discussion. The children started talking about what their trees look like at home, so I brought out the green paper and they decorated triangles. For some of them, I drew the triangles for them and had them cut out the lines because that's still a skill they're working on.

I love the one on the left! 

I also brought out a grid game from last year so the children could continue working on counting skills. They rolled the die, then added that many bottle caps. Most of our children can do this already, so we extended it by turning it into an adding activity.

The children were helping each other!

Next week is a short week, so we'll probably end up focusing more on holidays than buildings, although the children still love building with tools in Blocks. We'll probably also talk about machines a little, following up from Friday's discussion. We're hoping to turn Dramatic Play into a Post Office, so I'd welcome any ideas you have.

In the meantime, break is almost here! Hang on and until then,

Happy Teaching!

--Amy