The girls had a great day. We began our morning making creations with play dough to begin conversation. Our theme was fruit smoothies. I immersed them in vocabulary and language to reflect the theme. They were so into it and added significantly with their creativity of what they were creating as well as play and pretend in their conversation. Following this warm up, they created a journal entry to illustrate what they created and I recorded what they said as they explained to me their drawings. Each of the girls chose a fruit lacing board and we worked on fine motor skills. They enjoyed this and each did two boards.

Gabriela and Laina added a picture to their "Kissing Hand" project. The picture shows how to form "I love you" in sign language. We sang the song "The Kiss Goes On," accompanied with hand movements. The girls then reviewed our five senses by looking at a poster depicting each one. They then told me things that they can see, hear, smell, touch, and taste. We continued working on our "My Winter Senses" booklet, focusing on hearing the crackling of the fire in the fireplace. The girls used red, orange, and yellow tissue paper for the fire.

Today Laina and Gabriela started with building their names with Duplos and counting the letters in their names. They then decorated their journals with stickers.
Then they used markers to draw stories in their journals about the lemonade stand they made and a bunny that Analise wanted.
We read our morning message and started a discussion on Juice. The girls talked about what fruits we could squeeze and which ones we needed a machine for. They then shared they would love to taste a smoothie. We talked about that next week's experiment will be juicing.
Altogether we talked about the letters in our names and began creating a word wall with names and pictures above the letters.
Laina and Gabriela then used hearts as counters with number cards and counted 1-1. They then began counting on and adding hearts together. They both can count 1-1 and add on own their own.
They also began writing numbers and Laina liked writing number 5 since she has 5 letters in her name. We then went into writing numbers with finger paint, starting at the top when we make our numbers. They learned a song to go with it(tune wheels on bus) We start at top when we make our letters, make our letters, make our letters, We start at top when we make our letters, we start at the top.
Their numbers then went up on the wall so they can remember what they look like and how to write them.
They then explored with play dough and created many different objects using sticks, puff balls and eyeballs. Laina created a lollipop named Mr. Tinkle.
Today we reread the story "Dinosaurs Go To School" and looked for our letters in the story and discussed our favorite parts of the story. They learned a butterfly song and did a dance to head shoulders knees and toes.
Both girls then explored books on their own using the magnify glasses to look for animals and letters.
Along with looking for and talking about letters and their sounds we also played a fun rhyming game where we rhymed each others names using bippity boppity boo pretend magical wands.
"Bippity Boppity Boo, an elephant sat on you, Bippity Boppity bee an elephant Sat on me, Bippity Boppity Taina an Elephant sat on Laina, Bippity Boppity Labriela an elephant sat on Gabriela. Both girls really enjoyed that game.
For computer time they wanted to watch The Magic School Bus and we watched part of the baking episode since it was their baking day at school. They discussed making cake!
Before lunch the girls created a gymnastic Barre with people out of Tinker Toys and were able to make it symmetrical and sturdy enough to stand on its own.
They then both shared their favorite parts of the day, Lainas:"the part of story where the dinosaurs hair looked like a hot dog and the rhyming game" Gabriela " the part of story where the dinosaur was on the playground and the rhyming game."
They both did an amazing job and are very attentive and sweet.

Today Gabriela and Laina made chocolate chip cookies that we dipped in melted chocolate and then into pink and red sprinkles. They measured and mixed all of the ingredients together for the chocolate chip cookies. We then baked them for 11 minutes. Once they cooled Gabriela and Laina dipped the cookies into the chocolate and then into the sprinkles. They turned out beautifully!

Gabriela and Laina sequenced events from "The Kissing Hand," using pictures from the story. The girls then practiced identifying their left and right hands. They placed lips on their hands that they traced yesterday. The lips signify the kiss that Chester the raccoon's mom gave him before he left for school. We then used sign language to say, "I love you." We read a poem called "The Kiss Goes On," and then sang it to the tune of "Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star." The poem was glued to the back of their traced hands. We began looking at our five senses. We used pictures to identify each sense. The girls began a five senses booklet with a winter slant, "My Winter Senses." The first page involved the sense of sight. The girls used white tempera paint, on their pointer finger, to make snowflakes.

Laina, Gabriela and I built rapport by playing with building blocks, sorting items from big to small, and playing mini domino. They replied to a few basic questions for basic assessment purposes.

We sang the alphabet, months of the year, days of the week. We made a butterfly using cutting, coloring, and gluing.

We read The Hungry Caterpillar and discussed the story. We talked about the life cycle of a butterfly. Next, the girls counted out 5 circles to make caterpillars. Using glue, they attached the bodies together, drew the letter L for the legs and attached "googly" eyes. After that, we used sentence strips labeled with the days of the week to retell the food items. For example, Thursday 4 strawberries. The girls took turns drawing the correct number on each sentence strip. Finally, we talked about what happened in the story and what our favorite parts were.

The girls started their day with practicing emergent writing by drawing family pictures for their journal and talking about them afterwards.
We went to the park to work on our gross motor skills (they love to climb and slide!) and have snack and then to the library to encourage listening, understanding, speaking and relating. While at the park, we discussed Presidents, what some of their responsibilities are and why we observe President's Day.
When we returned to the school, I showed the girls pictures of different monuments and edifices built in honor or memory of some of the Presidents of the United States (Washington Monument, Lincoln Memorial, Mount Rushmore,etc). Then they made their own monuments out of playdough to help develop their fine motor control and foster their creativity.
Gabriela and Laina practiced writing their names also to develop their fine motor skills.
To work on spatial awareness and reinforce their knowledge of shapes/colors, they built castles out of Legos and worked on puzzles. Our morning ended with a "Find It" shape game and reading stories.

Our day started with making self portraits in their journals and talking about what they were doing in their pictures to nurture their love of emergent writing.
We read Chicka Chicka Boom Boom to review letters to stimulate listening, understanding, speaking and relating.
The girls enjoyed playing with playdough to develop their fine motor control.

We spent our first day together getting to know one another. Both Gabriela and Laina enjoyed painting stories in their journals to encourage emergent writing.
We counted & practiced adding using the hearts from our math shelf to practice 1-1 correspondence.
Our stories for the day were Dinosaurs Go To School and Dinosaurs Dance. The girls had fun following the directions and moving like the dinosaurs in Dinosaurs Dance. This was to encourage their listening, understanding, speaking, relating skills & gross motor development.
Gabriela & Laina practiced their fine motor control & creativity through tracing their names & having open-ended art.
They loved building with Legos & completing the puzzles to exercise their spatial awareness & knowledge of shapes and colors.
The last part of our morning was spent playing matching games with flashcards to cultivate their learning of numbers and counting.