This week we will be celebrating Dr. Seuss’s birthday.  We will be reading Dr. Seuss books and doing silly things to celebrate his birthday.  The centers this week will be focused on the Dr. Seuss books we are reading along with other Dr. Seuss books. This is a great time to do silly rhyming with your kids just like he did!! This is our schedule of books and what we are doing:

Monday – Sleep Book – wear your pajamas to school

Tuesday – Green Eggs and Ham – wear something green to school

Wednesday – Wacky Wednesday – be wacky, wear your clothes inside out, or don’t match at all…it is up to you!

Thursday – Cat in the Hat – Wear your favorite hat

Our letters this week are O and P.  For math we will be focusing on counting to 20.

Wow what a ride!!!  The kids have really been into the Olympics unit.  It has been very heart warming to hear about how involved they are getting into supporting ALL of the countries.  This week we will be talking about the ski jump and dramatic play area will be turned into our ski jump area where they can measure how long they are able to jump. Our letters of the week are M and N.  For art we will be making the Olympic mascot Soohorang.  In the literacy center this week we will be drawing and writing about our favorite Olympic event.

Next week is Dr. Seuss’s birthday, get ready for some fun activities everyday!!!

Last week we learned about the Olympics and that Germany was our country to watch.  We discussed what kind of competitions will occur and what they look like.

In the dramatic play area, the students were pretending to ice skate in the Olympic Village.  This week they will pretend to ski and ski jump.  We will be keeping track of how many medals Germany has won in each the bronze, silver and gold categories.  At the end of the Olympics we will see which country has won the most, and the least.  Please take time out of your busy schedule to watch the Olympics with your child.

We watched this video last week and the kids loved it!! They were able to watch USA and Germany race.

Our letters this week are K and L along with the math concept of patterning.

We will celebrate Valentines Day on Wednesday with making bags and delivering our Valentines to our friends.  Everything that day will be centered around Valentines.

Happy Valentines Day!!

Over the next three weeks we our theme in our building will be the Winter Olympics!  The building is really excited about this adventure.  Every class has been teamed up and have been assigned a country.  Our country is Germany.  Not only will we be learning about the Olympics but also our country.  The whole building will also be following and talking about the USA teams.

This week in our class we will be introducing the Olympics: what is it? what happens? etc. We will also be introducing our country Germany and talking about the torch lighting ceremony.

Dramatic play this week will be the Olympic village with an ice rink.  We will be building different sleds for our bobsled challenge we will have with the Kindergarten the last week of our unit.  We will be painting a German flag and playing curling and keeping score.

The whole building is very excited about this Olympic tour we are going to take together!!!

PM only: this week we have a field trip to the Botanical Gardens on Thursday.  Please make sure your child arrives  by 11:45 the bus leaves promptly at noon.