Welcome Back from Spring Break! The children were all so happy to see each other on Monday.
We resumed with our Community Helpers study and Hikaru’s Mom, Mrs. Noriko Yasohama, came to the JK room to talk about her job as Japanese Language Teacher. She told the children that her job helps people communicate in other countries like Japan. She said that when you know a foreign language like Japanese, you can experience new books and films. She told them that characters like Pokemon come from Japan and if you speak Japanese then you can watch those shows in another language. She read a story about a boy who is bilingual and speaks English and Spanish. This boy, Tito, helps a firefighter understand a man who only speaks Spanish. Tito translated for the fire fighter that he smelled smoke in the apartment building. Mrs. Yasohama also read a book about spring, once in Japanese and then in English. Thank you so much for coming in and sharing how your job helps the community!
Lily’s father, Kyle Edwards, came to the Junior Kindergarten classroom and talked to the JK students about his job as a banker. He taught the students about how important saving money is and when you save money you can buy the things that you want! The students got to ask Mr. Edwards questions about what he does at his job and then each student made a small piggy bank to start a collection of their own at home. Thanks Mr. Edwards for showing us how your job helps the community!
To continue our study of what community helpers do to keep us safe the children helped create a Safety Town with the trikes and scooters on the playground. The children made stop lights and signs and interacted with each other to follow the directions.
To continue our study of what community helpers do to keep us safe the children helped create a Safety Town with the trikes and scooters on the playground. The children made stop lights and signs and interacted with each other to follow the directions.
Centers this week:
Math - counting and adding with toothbrushes and toothpaste. The children were each presented with a toothbrush that had different amounts of dots on them. They had to find the number on the toothpaste that matched the array of dots. The lesson was differentiated so that children were able to count objects, identify numbers, and add numbers together.
Language Art - This is a Peach was the popcorn word shared this week in the Language Arts center. The children worked on tracking the words on the page, identifying old popcorn words, and learning new words, describing and summarizing the story after we read it.
Fine Motor - writing popcorn words in salt. In this week's fine motor center the children worked on writing past and present popcorn words in salt. Feeling different materials is not only fun but great for their brain development as they make connections with reading, writing, and feeling the grainy salt.
Technology - computer fun. The JK kids all had an opportunity to work on Kids Pix or Reader Rabbit on one of our two computers.
Enjoying the Beautiful outdoors!
The class helped Rhett celebrate his birthday this week! Happy 5th Birthday Rhett and thank you for the yummy cupcakes!
A Peek Ahead:
This weeks center activities are:
Math, Lanugage Arts, Fine Motor, and Technology
During "small group, work time" the children will be meeting in reading groups, drawing their april self portraits, making butterflies, playing in the Spring dramatic play area on the balcony with spring time puppets, flowers, and dress up cloths, and reading the new spring time books.
During circle time we will be using our senses to talk about the season of Spring. We will be reading books and learning new interactive songs and poetry.
We will not be in school on Friday and there is NO EDP.
