Week 3 wrap up.

This week was AWESOME!!!    The children are learning so much.   They are like little sponges...just soaking up everything we do!   I love this age!!   This week we focused on the letter T.   We did lots of turkey activities!  We also read the story Yellowbelly and Plum.   They loved this story about friendship and making new friends at school.   On Wednesday, I gave them their own copy of the book and they followed along while the CD read the story to them!  By Thursday, some children were reading some of the words in the story on their own!    Awesome!    The above picture shows the song/chant we did this week.   We had a very exciting day on Tuesday.   We found out that one of our friends can read!   Luc read the whole chart to us and then went on to read several other charts to us!  We were all very surprised and excited!!!   All of the children were screaming, "Luc, we are SO proud of you!  You are a rockstar reader!!!"   Luc was just beaming....and Mrs. Weathers was crying...happy tears of course!  

Layna is painting her T-T-T- Turkey!

Following along while the CD reads our story

We practice writing everyday!   This week, we practiced the letter A, B and T

Alex is working on his turkey!

On Thursday, we worked on our fine motor skills.   Play-Doh is a great way to strengthen them!  We also used our number stamps to cut out numbers.  

Here we are saying our Five Little Turkey Poem.   You better watch out!  We will chase the last turkey standing!!  Gobble Gobble!

Next week, we will focus on the letter C and continue to play games and review letters A, B, and T.    This weekend, spend some time talking about the letter C.    I bet you could even play I-Spy while in the car and find the letter C on street signs!   The letter C is everywhere!   The letter C says "cuh".   This sound is typically a little difficult for most young children.   They tend to say that the letter C says "suh".   We will work on this letter and sound up until Thanksgiving.   Don't forget...no school on Monday!