Fireflies Weekly

Hi Firefly Parents!

This week we focused on LOVE and Valentine's Day! We made valentine play dough, painted and decorated valentine frames for our parents, made our own heart lacing cards by cutting them out/punching holes/lacing with yarn, practiced our positional words in a mini book, responded to the journal prompt, "How do you show love to a friend?", & cut out hearts and decorated them into valentines at the writing center. Our HWT letter was W and we read the books Love Makes a Family, The I Love You Book, A Unicorn Named Sparkle and the Perfect Valentine and Somebody Loves You Mr. Hatch.

Reminders:

*Firefly Valentine/Friendship Party: Thursday, February 12th from 11-12

*NO SCHOOL! Friday, February 13th & Monday, February 16th for President's Day

*We still need another volunteer to bring an activity/craft for our party next Thursday from 11-12 if anyone can come and help!

Here are some pictures from this week!

SNOW!

Making heart lacing cards

HWT Letter of the Week: W

Drumming with Miss Li

Cutting out valentines for our loved ones

Fresh valentine playdough!

Number matching game

Positional words practice

Taking turns playing some arctic animal games

Candy heart patterning

Painting frames for a valentine gift

Cutting out and sequencing hearts

Coming Up Next Week: A little more on LOVE and our Valentine/Friendship Party

Enjoy the weekend!

Lexi & Jaymi

Happy Friday, Firefly Families!

Wow--what a crazy start to our week! Hope you all stayed safe and warm in the SNOW. During our short week we learned a little about arctic/antarctic habitats and what animals live in them. We cut out and painted igloos with penguins, responded to the journal prompt, "How does your daddy take care of you?" (we learned about how daddy penguins are the main care-giver of penguin chicks), played a penguin color matching game, used sponges to paint polar bear faces, and played in REAL snow with arctic animals. Our HWT letter of the week was V and we read the books Arctic Animals For Kids, The Emperor's Egg, Penguins (Nat Geo Kids) and we watched a few videos on the arctic/antarctic habitats & animals.

Reminders:

*Our Valentine's Day "Friendship" party is on Thursday, February 12th. Please bring in 15 valentines to pass out! Reminder--NO candy or food!

*NO SCHOOL: Friday, February 13th for PD Day and Monday, February 16th for President's Day

*The LPA is hosting Love YourSELF, a fun family event on Saturday, February 7th at LECC from 3pm-5pm. There will be a special performance from Laren Loveless, snacks, and crafts. There will also be chair massages for the adults. Don't miss out on this awesome event. Kids 2+ are $10, adults are free. More details and purchase tickets here. Questions? Please email president@leccparents.com

*Please see flyer below for a clothing drive happening in February here at the LECC!