Who knows what week?!? :)

A little insight from the last 2 weeks...


The girls finally discovered the "Dr. stuff"...everyone should be healthy as a horse!

Puzzles are still a HUGE hit with both classes...it's amazing how much they have improved with this skill in just a couple weeks...and I love that they help each other!

While these blocks are meant for many things including patterns, sorting, making letters...the boys will come up with all sorts of things for them (guns, swords, you name it they make it :))!

Enjoying a little snack! Thanks again for all the fun contributions!

Practicing our pincer grip....SOOOO important for holding a pencil correctly and in turn forming letters correctly.   We will continue to do small motor activities to get these grips firm!!!

Coloring our books today...make sure they "read" them to you lots and lots!!!

The Block that they would roll and it would tell them what to do...they seemed to LOVE this!!

More puzzles!!

There should be more but they aren't pulling up in Picasa...I'll keep working on it!! Have a great week!

Week 5--Letter D

A little insight into our week here at school...



I LOVED watching these boys "create".  They built this "race track"  and then made their "car" (the gray stick with 2 blue wheels) and would race it back and forth to each other on the "race track"

Tinkertoys are becoming a new favorite for my morning friends...

Some of the patterns we were working on this week...started with a simple ABABAB pattern (We also did one on our calendar...boy girl boy girl...and a color one blue green blue green)...

The kids took turns picking a "clue" and after each clue they had to guess what my picture was...it was the apple :)

And sequencing...funny how something that seems so simple to us...really made them think...what comes first...a bare foot...a sock or a shoe :)

Our hats and cutting practice...once again check out the different levels....one child just "colored" the hats the best he/she could with whatever color they wanted too...the other child colored his/her hats the exact way as the picture...again not necessarily "right or wrong"...just levels of progression.

This shirt on the top left is Nate's...the one of two boys who was able to do the laces 100 % by himself...the others I helped get the button started and they finished....still doing a fantastic job!

Colton was able to do his all by himself too!! I was laughing because his shirt looked very similar to the one he was wearing...absolutely perfect!! :)

and there you have it...another week of organized chaos!! :)

Week 4--Letter G

Another Week of Organized Chaos!! :)



Enjoying new friends...new toys...new adventures

They got so good at their letter "G's"...For the capital G I told them they need to start at the top (2 o clock) and go around around around...ERT (That's when they turn in!) :)  A "little g" is a circle, line, and a monkey tale...breaking it up for them like this seems to really help!! :)

We also practiced circles...and had lots of "reading" time!

PROJECT TIME...

Mastering our cutting..They are all getting better at holding the scissors correctly--and ALWAYS keeping their thumb on top! :)

Lily and Eliza's "phone conversation" was cracking me up!! Be careful what you say parents--the kids love to repeat EVERYTHING!! :)

The goal of these manipulatives is to put them together without making any holes :)

Devouring all of their yummy snacks...GRANOLA, GRAPES, Gogurt, GOLDFISH, GRAPE JUICE, etc.

More cutting practice...

I posted a lot of the "hands" so you can once again see the difference of how I "teach" vs. other teachers who come up with the most amazingly cute crafts that are PERFECT! :)...and how your child can create his/her own experience.  I wanted them to cut out their own hand...but decided that would make me freak out because I know a handful of them would have chopped off all their fingers, etc....so I cut it out for them.  After we explored different textures with our "touch sense" I gave them their hand and paper and said glue your hand on your paper and then glue on the rainbow rice wherever you want.  "Decorate" your hand if you want....

I think it's amazing to see how different they all were...some girls made jewelry on their hands and "painted their fingernails"...some only used one color...some mixed all the colors right away...others kept them separated but used them all....THIS is what I LOVE to see--I hope you do too...and you can see the method to my madness! :)

Some put it on their hands...some only around...some covered their whole paper...the differences go on and on.  It truly was their creation!

Another GREAT week!! Next week more Body, senses, and such...and the letter "D"