What a busy week we had this week talking all about the way we help our families at home as well our STREAM unit on Pumpkins. STREAM stands for Science, Technology, Religion, Engineering, Arts and Math. Each grade at BSS completes two units per year and this year our Fall unit was Pumpkins. We chose various activities pertaining to pumpkins that met the different criteria of these categories and had so much fun doing it. Who knew building gates with Lincoln logs for the 5 little pumpkins was engineering?? Or that carving out our class pumpkin to examine the insides and count the seeds was both Math and Science? We thought we were just having fun!!
We didn’t just have fun all week, we did serious work too. The letter we focused on this week was the letter Hh. We worked on writing it in small groups as well as coloring in pictures that begin with it to help our fine motor skills. We also worked on building it with our wooden blocks on the rug. We also worked on independently writing it the writing table if we chose to. Each child works at their own pace and we encourage them to do so. It is amazing to watch them learn something new and really love it!
During small groups we worked on identifying and recognizing uppercase and lowercase letters, segmenting words into their onset and rime and we worked more with syllables and compound words. We are really doing a great job with it. We also worked with identifying small groups of numbered items without having to count them. This was tricky at first but we really got the hang of it! We talked about the many different ways we can make various sets of the number 4 using both fingers and concrete items. They were really impressed by the fact that they were adding like “big kids” do.
Even though it rained this week we had plenty of time to play in the classroom. We got extra time to play in the sensory table which is full of Halloween themed items, we played with balls at the train table and we even got extra time in the dramatic play area. We made the best of being stuck inside!
Have a great weekend!
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| Building a gate for "5 Little Pumpkins" |
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| Carving out our class pumpkin, learning about pulp and seeds! |
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| Loving the light table! |
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| Our class Jack-O Lantern! We all took turns guessing how many seeds we thought he had inside....347!!! |
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| Some Halloween fun at the sensory table this week! Making patterns and sorting spooky things with friends |
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| Working on counting |
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| Morning fun building! |
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More pictures coming soon!
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