The girls started the day reading the morning message and looking for the beginning letter in their name. They added pictures/words to their word wall and did interactive writing in their journals.(They are remembering what sound S makes.)
They re-read "Wocket in my Pocket" rhyming the words and then they played a round of "Bippity Boppity Boo" creating nonsense words to rhyme .
They practiced letter formation with play dough and then on paper, singing their writing song.
They made sound hats and we went on a sound hunt looking for "g", "l" and "d" sounds. We took pictures and will create a sound book.
Today they created AB patterns with manipulates and counted bands onto Popsicle sticks. Laina read herself a "Wocket in my Pocket" during book time and both girls enjoy "reading" around the room.

Today Gabriela and Laina started off writing in their journals and writing down the first letter sound they hear in the words. Gabriela was able to hear and write p for princess and pancakes, e for eating, w for waffles and b for bacon. Laina heard and wrote e for eating, p pancakes and b for bacon. Throughout the morning we continued working on sound/ letter recognition orally and matching to letters. Tomorrow we will add more words (beginning sounds) to our word wall. They also read "A Wocket in my Pocket" and created rhyming words with our bippity bippity boo chant and a wand. They really enjoy rhyming nonsense words.
We continued practicing 1 to 1 with numbers and counting/adding on.
They also practiced forming the letters using play dough and singing our writing chant.
Today we did our fruit squeeze science experiment. They had to first make a good guess as to which fruit they thought they could get juice from squeezing by hand. They charted it and tested it out. The chart is hanging in their room.
They ended the day painting and creating art.

Gabriela, Laina, and I began the session with singing the letters of the alphabet and practicing the months of the year, days of the week, today's day and today's weather.

We began interacting with material that involved sewing figurines which allowed them to practice on their fine motor skills. We identified basic words and the identification and sound of vowels in the words. We engaged in drawing, coloring, and identifying basic shapes on a paper as well as around the room. We practiced drawing in the drawing book presented to them.

We played at the park and made a treasure hunt game out of the orange cones.

Laina and Gabriela practiced their emergent writing and letter recognition by drawing fantastic pictures of the favorite things they did in school this week. They both said their favorite things were reading books.
We then practiced letter recognition a bit more by having a letter hunt through the school! We found so many letters and talked about how there are letters and words everywhere!
After snack, we walked over to the park for some gross motor development. They had so much fun swinging and pretending they were on a roller coaster. We read "Hello Ocean, Hola Mar" while at the park to strengthen their listening/understanding, speaking and relating skills.
After a fun time at the park, we came back and had a fire drill!! The girls did a great job using their listening ears and following directions.
Laina and Gabriela enjoyed painting their names which helped to encourage their fine motor control. They explored play dough to encourage their creativity and had a great time making up their own characters and making a story with the characters they had made.
They used coins to practice 1-1 correspondence by placing the number of coins on the appropriate number card.
We introduced the letter "X" and added words to the word wall.
The girls are loving our "Hello Chant" and learning to say hello in other languages. Today we learned 'Ciao' and 'Konnichiwa'.
Laina and Gabriela also practiced writing their numbers on the white boards.
We finished our morning by having them help me read "Outside a Zoo in the City" and "Superhero ABC'S".

Dr. Suess' birthday is March 2nd. Gabriela and Laina will not be at school on that day, so I decided to celebrate early! I showed the girls a picture of Dr. Seuss and told them that he wrote the words for the books I had on display. I read "Green Eggs and Ham," and by the middle of the book the girls were joining in with me. Gabriela and Laina used poster board and painted a green egg on it. They then added a yellow yolk. I then wrote on each project, "I will not eat them ----------." The girls told me where they would never eat green eggs. I wrote their responses on their projects.

design fundamentals. Gabbie and Laina did another drawing today using the "elements" of lines and shapes. They each drew a picture of sail boats using different lines and shapes.

The girls drew stories and wrote in their journals to practice their emergent writing and letter recognition. They explored the math shelf to encourage their 1-1 correspondence and number recognition.
We introduced a new transition song "On the Rug" to help strengthen their direction following and self-help skills.
At story time, we read " One Duck Stuck", a rhyming and number book. We learned our hello chant in which the girls learned how to say hello in different languages and then followed that up with music and movement. Laina and Gabriela had fun singing and dancing to " Boom Chicka Boom". These will encourage their listening/understanding, speaking, relating and gross motor development skills.
The girls both enjoyed spelling their names to familiar songs! For Laina we sang to the tune of " Bingo" and for Gabriela, we sang to the tune of " Ten Little Indians".
Today we dove into the letter "O" and brain stormed some words that start with that letter.
We ended our morning with the book "Leaping Leapfrogs" and sang our goodbye song.

Gabriela and Laina completed their "My Winter Senses" booklets. The sense of taste was represented by white pom-poms (marshmallows) on the cup of cocoa. The sense of smell was represented by sugar cinnammon sprinkled on a gingerbread boy and girl. The sense of touch was represented by felt mittens. I printed the words to our poem/song, "The Kiss Goes On," on sentence strips. The girls held pointers and with my help, pointed to each word as we sang the song. We then talked about "opposites" and had fun putting together two piece puzzles focusing on: wet/dry short/tall happy/sad fast/slow big/little on/off hot/cold inside/outside up/down young/old high/low behind/in front of I then read "Chicka Chicka 1-2-3." We counted to 30 and practiced writing a 1, 2, and 3.

We read Goodnight Moon and did a number/story events matching game. The girls worked on counting the individual pictures and matching it to the coordinating number. We built a 3 foot puzzle on the floor. The girls enjoyed the gigantic pieces and manipulating them together to fit the pieces. This was a challenge for them that they enthusiastically accepted. The team work was beautiful and they were so pleased with the outcome. We used a ruler to measure the ocean animals in inches once complete.