First day for Terrific 2's and 3's class

Willow Room- Terrific 2's and 3's

The children had a great first day! We had a couple of tears first thing, but as soon as we went outside to play in the playground, all sadness was forgotten! We came back in to have snack and the children were all happy. We listened to a book on tape called Miss Mary Mack by Mary Ann Hoberman and we got to put our names on the attendance board too. We painted with red and blue paint on paper which magically turned into purple. At the table we had puzzles, including alphabet and number puzzles and some sorting bowls where we sorted the counters by color. For music today we did some favorites, "Brown Bear, Brown Bear" , "If you're happy and you know it" and "Little Fish". This was a great first day of school!

Oak Room:

We are continuing our "If you " books and today was "If you give a moose a muffin" by Laura Numeroff. At art we had muffin shape paper, first we cut small snips of brown paper to practice cutting and then we glued them on our muffin shape. For music we did a fun song called the donut shop, but we used muffin shapes and changed the words. We played "Hide the airplane", which is a game where the children guess which number cloud the airplane is hiding behind. This helps with numeral recognition, taking turns, and memory. We also sang an apple song and did the freeze dance.

For our letter "A" today, we had alphabet puzzles, books and games. We also did a graph to find out how many children have the letter "A" in their name- 14 had an "A" and only 2 did not. The children have already learned the routine and are so busy with all of the activities in the room. We are really enjoying our class.

Today's Tip:
Children seem to learn more quickly to anything put to music, so sing to your children often. You can even sing "We are putting the clothes in the hamper today". The tune to "London Bridges" works well for many songs.