We have expanded on our winter theme this week by including bears in our play in addition to our polar animals. We were happy to have so many bear (and other stuffie) visitors from your homes! Our bears joined us in our storytime, singing & center play. Some even helped do our jobs at circle time! We made feasts for them in the bear “den” and pretended to be bears ourselves! We finger painted over a polar bear and revealed a negative space polar bear hiding in our paintings!
Everyone enjoyed our Pancakes & Pajamas Day! Thank you all for helping to make this a special day for our Ladybugs- whether you donated, cooked, served or just remembered to send them to school in PJs! We could feel the love ❤️
We have been working hard to learn more of the letters in our names. This week we practiced cutting mosaic squares to glue onto the letters. Some friends also traced their name with markers and turned them into rainbow letters. The Ladybugs are showing more interest in letters and numbers everyday. We had fun learning a new game called Penguin Race to the Top. We rolled the dice & colored a square above the matching penguin to see which would reach the top first! I think the rainbow scarf penguin won. They did a great job taking turns and keeping score on their own!
After all our talk of hibernation and bears, we mentioned that the groundhog might come out soon to see if Spring is coming. We explored shadows and used a light to make shadows with puppets and toys from our room.
We also celebrated another 1/2 birthday this week! Lydia’s mom brought yummy cookies and read an ABC book. Happy 1/2 Birthday, Lydia! We will have a very busy 1st two weeks of February full of birthday celebrations- Sienna & Miss Kelsi and ALL of our August babies!
DON’T FORGET:
Our annual Valentine Dance will be on Friday, Feb. 7 from 6:00-7:30 pm. Put on your dancing clothes and shoes! The fellowship hall will be transformed into a party! This event is for your whole family. It’s always a favorite!
Valentine’s Day- Please send in Valentines with your child the week of February 10th. They will deliver them to one another on Wed. 2/12 and Thurs. 2/13 using their decorated bags we’ll make here in the classroom. Have your child sign their names on their Valentine cards and leave the “to” part and envelope, if there is one, blank. This way it is easier for them to personally pass out their cards and not be overwhelmed by reading all of their friends’ names. Give your child a chance to help create & personalize their valentines in some way. This can be by adding stickers, drawing a picture, writing their name on their own (or even just a letter or two), or decorating homemade cards. Whatever they do will give them ownership & pride and make the experience of delivering the cards soooo meaningful to them ❤️
*SCHOOL WILL BE CLOSED ON FEBRUARY 14TH AND 17TH *
We are still looking for volunteers to visit and teach us about their jobs during our community helpers theme in February!! We have had dentists, physical therapists, artists, doctors, carpenters- all sorts of interesting jobs to learn about in past years. Let us know if you’d like to share something about your work with our class, and we can schedule a time!
ALSO- we are in need of a box of gallon size ziplocs & a refill bottle of foaming hand soap. Let me know if you can pick that up for us. Thanks!
Have a wonderful weekend with your little Ladybugs!!