Monthly Archives: August 2020

We Love Our School Shoes

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Pete the Cat is back—and this time he’s rocking in his school shoes. Pete discovers the library, the lunchroom, the playground, and lots of other cool places at school. And no matter where he goes, Pete never stops moving and grooving and singing his song . . . because it’s all good. (Summary from HarperCollins Childrens Books.)

Pete the Cat loves his shoes and so do we.  We had fun with a guessing game about our school shoes.

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Morning Class

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Afternoon Class

Song a Song

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The first week of school went by very fast.  All the children seem to be settling into our daily routine.  I have been busy singing some songs with them.  Songs, Nursery Rhymes, and fingerplays are great for working on phonemic awareness skills.  Phonemic awareness is

  • ™ The ability to hear the individual parts of words, separate the parts, put them back together and then change them to make new words  
  •  A strong indicator of reading success 
  •  Oral (once you add print, it become phonics) 
  •  Usually developed naturally through reading rhyming books, singing songs, and chanting nursery rhymes 
  • Usually secure by the end of first grade

The children thought the following Voki’s were quite funny.  Ask your child to teach them to you.  If you would like a print out of these songs click on the Song header over on the left under the blog banner.  The song sheet contains a few songs that we will be singing starting next week.  Come on back for some new singing Voki’s.  Hopefully you won’t mind my singing, the children don’t seem too!

 

Chicka Chicka Boom Boom

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The following is a book review of Chicka Chicka Boom Boom from Preschool Rocks:

The naughty little lower case letters get themselves into trouble when they all try to fit into the coconut tree. All of the lowercase letters are too heavy for the coconut tree and they all fall out. The poor little letters have skinned knees, black eyes, and a loose tooth. Luckily the uppercase letters come running to the rescue and kiss everything better, but what will the mischievous little a do when the moon come up?

Sounds like a great book!  It’s another thumbs up book here in our classroom!  This book has served as a great starting point for me to start collecting baseline information on what letters each child in our classroom knows.  This information will allow me to plan fun, exciting activities for each of my students to meet their individual needs when it comes to learning their letters.

Color Game

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I found this color sorting game while searching around on the internet and thought your child might enjoy playing it.  The directions for the game are as follows:

Drag each object into the box of the same color.  If you get it wrong it will bounce out of the box.  If you get it right it will stay in the box. 

Click on the link below the picture to start the game.

 Color Game

 Color Game