Fall Leaf Fun

This week in math, we discussed the words above, below, on, and under.  We played a game with some foam shapes and the kids had to listen to the directions so they knew where to put their shape.

We also did an apple tree art project and put apples above, below, on, and under the tree.

We read the book, "Fresh Fall Leaves," and discussed all of the fun things you can do in the leaves.  We also talked about the importance of illustrations to text and made our own class version of "Fresh Fall Leaves."  I made a large version of the book and assigned 3-4 kids to illustrate a page of the story.  It was a really good activity to practice cooperating and working together.

They were all really proud of their class book and I hung it up on the back wall of our classroom.  Have your child show you which page they helped with!

 

 

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We did a really fun art project this week.  We painted leaves using shaving cream and paint.

The kids got to swirl the two things around together into some pretty designs.

Then they pressed their leaf shape into the mixture, we helped them lift it out and then used a squeegee to scrape the extra paint off.

The result was amazing!  The paint left a marbled effect on the leaves and now they are hanging up in our room and making it look festive!

We had an assembly this week where we learned about acting and theater.  The kids enjoyed the puppets that came to help.

We also met a new friend named Mr. Munch.  The kids already love him!  He comes to help us learn our letter sounds.  He eats things that start with a certain letter and the kids LOVE feeding him!

We have also been practicing our letter formation with an app called "Letter School."  I project it on the screen for everyone to see and we all help write the letters with our magic fingers.  The app was only $2.99.  It comes with all of the uppercase and lowercase letters and numbers.  If you have a device that can use apps, I highly recommend it!

In math, we also worked more on one-to-one counting.  I made some counting bags and the kids really enjoyed counting the objects inside and recording how many there were.

They were so careful to move each thing over as they counted!

In computers this week, we played a fun game from the site ABCYa.com.  It is a wonderful FREE site with lots of great letter and word practice.  Check it out at home!

Oliver was our Star Student and showed us his special blankie from when he was a baby.  He also told us how he got to come to America from Cambodia!  We are so glad you are in our class Oliver!