Rusty Raccoon News
February 1-5
What happened this week
- We talked about special friends
- We made a large heart and the kids illustrated pictures of their special friends (check out the bulletin board)
- We discussed emotions and illustrated an emotions chart
- The kids identified how they feel
- The kids identified happy, sad, angry, excited, sleepy
- Identified heart shapes
- Heart art and decorated valentines boxes
- Matched colored heart shapes
- Introduced the letter B
- Ball, banana, butterfly, baby, blue, bee, black, brown, bear, basketball
- Used tweezers to grasp button shapes out of beans
- Explored with rice in the sensory table
Books
- My Friend Is Sad
- I Love You This Much
- The Feel Good Book
- Silly Sally
- Rabbityness
- The Day It Rained Hearts
- Are You Quite Polite?
- A Color of His Own
- When Sophie Gets Angry- Really, Really Angry
- The Mixed-Up Chameleon
- I Like Me
- Pete the Cat Valentines Day Is Cool
Cami using tweezers to pick out shapes from the beans.
James counting and matching colored hearts.
Cameron matching shapes.
Reminders
- Valentines class party on Tuesday
- Please remember to bring your child's valentines for friends to class on Tuesday- 16 kids
- New letter R
Emmett cutting hearts.
Sawyer and Zoe building with magnatiles and farm animals.
Mia and Leah cutting, tapping and gluing hearts.