The girls were excited to practice their letter writing by completing their letter worksheets as soon as they came in. Gabi worked on the letter 'F' and Laina finished up the letter 'X'.
Gabriela and Laina both enjoy singing our "Hello Chant" and learning how to say hello in different languages. Today we learned Vietnamese, Arabic and Korean.This strengthens their multicultural exposure and language development. We then talked about the weather outside and they told me what their favorite types of weather are. Laina said hers is stormy weather and Gabriela said hers is cold weather. They worked on their emergent writing skills by writing in their journals about their favorite types of weather and drew wonderful pictures to go with them.
Gabriela and Laina used number cards with only numbers (no pictures) to practice their 1-1 correspondence. They both did a great job recognizing the numbers and laying out the correct number of gold coins to go with the corresponding card.
To encourage their listening, understanding, speaking and relating skills, the girls read our wordless book, "I Am in the Attic". Both girls were able to recognize and tell me what they thought was going on throughout the book. We also added words to our word wall from our story. We also read "Alice the Fairy" and discussed the book while reading it.
To work on their gross motor development, we played musical instruments to different songs while dancing with them.
During snack we read "Hop on Pop" and "There's a Wocket in My Pocket" to encourage their reading and rhyming skills.
Gabriela and Laina did a great job tracing their names to not only practice their writing but to strengthen their fine motor control.
We ended our morning together with open ended art to fortify their creativity. Great day for both girls.