No Daily Note Today

Wednesday, September 18, 2013

I wanted to let you know that we didn't send home a daily note due to our copy machine isn't working properly.

Today we played in the gym after breakfast.  Tumbling seemed to be the favorite activity for most of the children and my, how they can do somersaults!  Then we read in our small reading groups and gathered together to sing our ABC songs for each letter of the alphabet with each child taking turns pointing to the words as we sang.  We were able to sing our way to letter P today!  We had center time, where the children could choose what to play with while we worked with the children on writing their names and gluing their name collages.

Right before lunch we broke into a Skip-to-my-Lou dance with finding partners to dance with and following the directions of tiptoeing, swinging your partner, and galloping.  We found out today that we have a group that likes to dance!  I will be looking for more music to dance to with our friends this year!  Then we used our rhythm sticks to play follow the leader by just watching me with no added verbal directions.  They did a great job and we finished with singing The Wheels on the Bus using our sticks as the wheels, the windshield wipers, the doors opening and shutting, and the people going up and down.

In the afternoon we played with play-doh and we also learned Nursery Rhymes and used our felt pieces to act them out as we said or sang them.  The day ended with a snack and a few more songs!