I read The Kissing Hand with the focus on how a kiss on the palm of your hand can help to overcome fears and promote independence. We role-played, pretending we were Chester and his mom. The story lent itself to talk about our left hand and our right hand. Hands were traced, labeled left and right, and glitter sprinkled on them.

The girls used fine motor skills as they created the letters of their names with play dough. I read Chicka Chicka Boom Boom, which afforded the opportunity to identify upper and lower case letters. They each drew a tree and spelled their name on the trunk, using foam letters. The girls then counted plastic hearts. Gabriela counted to 23 and Laina to 24.

Today I subbed and we worked on our ABC's in Spanish. We sang a song with our friend " Amigo Oso". Also we went over letter sounds and the new letters in the Spanish alphabet. In addition we colored and we sang " La Araña Pequeñita".

design fundamentals. Using the elements of "shapes" and "lines," Gabby and Laiana did two drawings today in art. They both did a drawing of "Larry the Lion" and "Clifford the Clown." Then they had time to color them in.