Happy Thursday, Firefly Families!
Last week we focused on the U.S. Postal Service. We learned the process of how a letter is mailed & delivered, what you need to mail a letter (address, stamp, return address) and practiced learning our own addresses. We also made mailboxes for our classroom and spent the week writing each other postcards and letters from our writing center. We also created a post office in our reading arch and took turns being the mail carrier and delivering mail. We made our own mail trucks and mail carrier hats, and went on a number hunt around our building--practicing writing our numbers up to 20. We read the books The Post Office Book, Delivering Your Mail, and Mail Truck's Busy Day. Our Handwriting Without Tears letter of the week was X.
This week we focused on transportation and things that GO! We made transportation emergent reader books to practice letter writing, matched pattern blocks in the shape of different vehicles, responded to the journal prompt, "If you could go anywhere, where would you go? How would you get there?", played the "parking lot game", created name rockets & hot air balloons, and sorted vehicles into different categories of land, sea and sky. Our HWT letter was Y, and we read the books Let's Go For a Drive!, Roaring Rockets, Things That Go!, The Cars and Trucks Book and some Epic (a website) books on transportation. We also watched "How Do Rockets Fly?" and "How Do Hot Air Balloons Work?" from Sci Kids.
Reminders:
*SPRING BREAK!: NO SCHOOL Friday, March 15th through Friday, March 22nd
Here are some pictures from the last two weeks!
