All About Me

This week we talked about ourselves and our families.  On Tuesday we heard the book Clifford's Family.  Then we sat in a circle and all shared pictures of our families.  Each child told the names of the people in their family.  We had music with Mrs. Jenkins today.  She played the guitar and we sang songs that helped us get to know one another's names a little better.  After music it was time to go outside.  We had a bucket full of water and a bunch of paper towels and we all worked together to clean our outside play equipment....then it was time to play!  We had so much fun running around, climbing on the equipment, playing make believe games, and getting to know each other better.  When we went inside we had activity time.  We were busy playing with sand, trains, play dough, blocks, cars, and finishing our fingerpainting! 

Here are just a few of the fingerpaintings.  First the kids painted on paper and then we put another piece on top of their work to make a print.

We used cheerios and glue last week to write our names.  Matthew was so excited that he took his home and so it didn't make it in the picture!

On Wednesday we were talking about our homes.  We read the book Who's Behind the Door at My House?  Then we went around the circle and took turns sharing pictures of our houses.  We talked about the color of our houses and who lived inside.  During activity time we started making a house out of construction paper that looks like the house we live in.  We can open it up and see who lives inside!  The kids had a lot of fun with this project and wanted to take their time working on it.  I thought we'd finish it in a day but we're going to need another day or two before everyone is done!

Here's a sample of what the houses look like that the kids are creating.  

Today was another beautiful September day so we made sure to have plenty of time outside to run around and play!

We had our first birthday celebration on Thursday!  Caden had an August birthday and he wanted to celebrate it with his friends at school.  He brought in a delicious birthday treat of rice krispie treats dipped in chocolate and sprinkles!  Yum!!  He even helped make the treat with his mom.  

We sang Happy Birthday to Caden in English and then Mrs. Chyko taught us how to sing Happy Birthday in Spanish!  Here are the lyrics.  It might be fun to practice singing this version at home with your kids.  We're planning to sing it (along with the english version) each time we celebrate a birthday at school.

Feliz cumpleaños a ti

feliz cumpleaños a ti
feliz cumpleaños querido/a(name)
feliz cumpleaños a ti.

It's sung to the same melody as Happy Birthday.

Happy Birthday, Caden!  Thanks for the yummy treats!!

We try to incorporate music as much as we can at school.  In addition to  Happy Birthday, we have learned a Clean up Song, Good Morning Song, Time for our Snack Song, Days of the Week Song and Good Bye Song!  I hope the kids have been singing some of them at home for you!!

 It was such a beautiful day we had to take advantage of the weather so we went for a walk to Wildwood Park.  

We had a great week at school!!