Winter Fun

We have had a few snow days over the last couple of weeks, but we are back in the swing of things. This week we began our unit on Fairy Tales and Nursery Rhymes. Our teacher can hardly believe it, but we can tell the story ourselves using our storyteller figurines. So far we have read, The Three Billy Goats Gruff, The Three Little Pigs and Goldilocks and the Three Bears. It is something to see. Hopefully, we will be able to share some stories with you soon.

Our last Sound of the Week was /J/ with Owen. He brought in items such as jewelry, jam, jet, jeep, Jedi, a Jesus book and a Jonah book, photos of Jupiter, a jacket, and juice. Our list of other words that begin with the /j/ had words like Jake, jamboree, jump rope, jelly bean, jaguar, January, jar, jungle, jump, July, Japan, joke, junk, just, jersey, etc. We read the Alphatales book, Jaguar's Jungleberry Jamboree, and sang along to a clip of ABC Mouse's letter J song. Our craft activity was making jellyfish. We had a lot of fun painting and gluing.

 

 

 

 

 

We were also able to complete our S/Z sound sort this week. I believe we are getting the hang of this.

 

 

 

 

 

In Math we continued working on perfecting our ABA pattern, and began on our weekly Counting Jar. This will help us with counting with accuracy and one to one correspondence, as well as identifying numerals and matching them with their quantities.

 

 

 

 

 

 

The highlight of our week, for certain, was our field trip to the Ice Rink! We got to try on some cool hockey gear and learned a lot about hockey from Coach Jason. We also got to check out the fabulous facility, see a Zamboni transform to empty the water and ice that was inside, and best of all, we got to skate on the ice. Some of us were so good at skating that we needed very little help from the friendly staff members.  

 

 

Please take a look at our Life Skills page for last week's lesson.