Earth Stewardship Day and More!

The weeks seem to be passing by so quickly as of late. It is hard to believe that we are upon the end of APRIL!! We have been hard at work in PK, enjoying the outdoors as much as the weather permits. Earth Stewardship Day was a lot of fun for us, and has inspired us to pick up trash we see around campus and try our best to be good stewards of the earth. We recently decided to clean out our birdbath so that birds can have a place to cool off on hot days. We brought out the water hose (some of us got a little wet...imagine the laughter!) and cleaned the birdbath, then filled it with water. After that we thought, how about a bird feeder? In the coming days, we will have to see what we can do about that. (I feel a science project coming on!)

Earth Stewardship Day!

 

Leila and Chanelle working in the Garden!

 

 

Cleaning the birdbath!

 

 

Over the last couple of weeks we have had two Sounds for Sound of the Week. Our Friend Owen shared the /R/ sound with us and our Friend Rose shared the /Y/ sound.

Owen brought in a ring, a rock, a ruler, a rake, the color red, Rapunzel, a rabbit, and the name Rose hand-written on a piece of red paper. We brainstormed many words that begin with the /r/ sound, listened to the R song and read the AlphaTales book, Rosie Rabbit's Radish.

/R/ with Owen!

 

 

Our Letter R craft activity? Rabbits, of course.

R is for rabbit!

 

 

We took handwriting to the streets (or the sidewalk) for the letter R. We wrote letters big, small, long and tall all over the sidewalk. It was a rather beautiful day, and we really enjoyed it!

Sidewalk chalk (letter R)

 

 

For the /Y/ sound, our Friend Rose brought in a yogurt container, some yarn, a Yankees baseball cap, the color yellow, and a Yy spin wheel. We read the AlphaTales book, The Yak Who Yelled Yuck, listened to the Y song, brainstormed a list of /y/ words that included words such as yak, yarn, yawn, yum, your, yo-yo, York, yacht, year, yam, you, yesterday, yard, yolk, young, etc.

 

/Y/ with Rose!

 

Y is for Yak!

 

 

 

During handwriting this week we worked on how to properly form the letter Y. We also wrote our favorite word that begins with the /y/ sound. Take a look below.

Handwriting (letter Y)

 

 

Counting Jar!

 

 

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Outdoor exploration...and other things!

Photo taken by our friend, Suzannah, in Scott House :-)

With Spring comes warmer weather...well, most of the time. With warmer weather comes a lot more outdoor exploration. We have been using our iPads to create Nature books with an app called Book Creator. Once we get them all done and printed out, we will send them home. During Technology, we go outside to take pictures on the iPad of signs of "Spring". Flowers, trees, honeysuckle, plants, and even bees! One of our friends thought we could take a picture of the wind. We tried it, but it didn't exactly turn out too well.
 

Taking photos for our nature books!

Sound sort with W and H was a breeze. We had a hard time keeping the horn and the whistle out of our mouths, so Chanelle had to remind us about how germs spread, and ended up taking those two items out of the sound sort. Oh, to be young and without cares!

W/H sound sort!

 

 



Handwriting practice in shaving cream! So much fun!

 

 

Last Friday we participated in a project called Smart Sacks. We discussed, in class, what it felt like to help others. We also discussed what Smart Sacks was all about. It is an organization that helps to feed children over the weekend, that may only eat when they come to school. We met Fifth Graders in the Dining Hall and put together bags of food for the children in need. We had a lot of fun.

Smart Sacks with 5th grade buddy!

 

 

 

 

20 ladybugs in the Counting Jar!

 

 

 

Besides our weekly Counting Jar for Math, we began a new pattern. It was not that difficult for us to learn. Once we got the hang of it, we created our own ABBA patterns. Take a look below.
 

ABBA patterns!



 

 

 

Our most recent sound of the week was /Ll/ with our friend, Lucey. She brought in a lid, a lemon, licorice, a ladybug, Leila, Lucey, a letter, a Lego, Lalaloopsy, and a Lollipop. We read the Alpha Tales book, The Lamb that Loved to Laugh, and watched The L Song on video. Our list of brainstormed words included; lion, leap, lovely, lucky, library, light saber, Luke Skywalker, lazy, lemonade, learn, leopard, light, lost, love, lamp, listen, Lori, etc.

/Ll/ with Lucey!

 

 

 

L is for Lion!

 

 



Our friend, Leila, shared the /Hh/ sound with us. She brought in items from home such as a hanger, a hello sign, a help sign, a heart, a hair tie, a hat, a horse, a hairbrush, and Henry Hugglemonster. We read the Alpha Tales book, Hide-and-Seek Hippo, and brainstormed a heap of words, which included, horns, hiccups, hop, hog, hands, her, him, happens, hamster, hive, hummingbird, hose, hook, hurt, hungry, hospital, have, honk, hexagon, etc. We watched The H Song video and danced along, happily. 

/Hh/ with Leila!

 

 

 

Letter H houses!

 

 

 

 

During Community Time last week, we listened to and learned about Latin American Music. We sang in different languages, danced, and some of us even got the chance to play some instruments! 

 Music with Cantare!



 

 

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