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| Getting ready for circle time! |
Yesterday we started work on letter B, the color orange and ovals. We did a brief overview of the letter sound and how to make the letter and worked quite a bit on calendar concepts. The kids are getting good at the days of the week and months of the year songs. They are also counting to 20+ (whatever calendar day we're on). Each day we practice counting with exercises. Yesterday it was 22 arm circles, 22 jumping jacks, and 22 marching setps. Our group activity was identifying names and then finding the letter B in each person's name.
The kids are showing a lot of progress in identifying different shapes in letters. When one child pointed out the lowercase letter d as a b, another child quickly pointed out that they were both made of a 1 line and 1 circle, but the line was on the wrong side of the d. Good skill development in my opinion.
Today, I snapped quite a few pictures. We worked on fine motor skills again today. This time we practiced sewing (or lacing, but sewing sounds so much more exciting if you are 3-4 years old). I cut the letter B out* of cardstock and hole punched around the outside of the letter. The kids had a great time sewing up their B. I sat with each child individually, but they caught on quickly. I think we'll visit this activity again in the next few weeks and see if they can do it all on their own.
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I thought about having the kids cut their own letter B out, but decided against it, as that would be really labor intensive to both cut and lace at the same sitting.
We also read Bear and Bunny Grow Tomatoes, worked on our calendar and had an "orange hunt."
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