Sunday, August 30, 2015

Week of August 24-28

This week our friends worked on identifying numbers and matching sets of numbers. The children played many different interactive games, such as, number line jumping, where the children had to identify a number and then jump to it. The children also played a bean bag toss game, where they had to identify a number on a bean bag, then find the corresponding number. This week our friends have been discussing different ways we can play with our classmates. We discussed the different ways that they can share and play. In our classroom we took picture of our friends "in action". There is a picture of friends playing with different materials in the same space, a picture of friends trading materials, and a picture of friends playing with the same material. The children have been doing a great job referencing those images during work time.


This past week I have been noticing that many of the children have been interested in building and creating towers with many different materials. So this coming week the children are going to be learning about building and construction. Through out the week the children will be able to building with different materials, as well as, learn about the different tools builders use.

Please keep sending in family photos and the technology permission forms. As always, please email me with any questions. Have a wonderful Sunday :)

-Ms. Rodriguez
















Tuesday, August 25, 2015

Message from Speech Therapists


Give Me 10 Time
 This week in speech therapy we are reading The Little Blue Truck. It is a fun rhyming book with lots of farm animals.  Rhyming books often create a nice rhythm.  Using music and rhythm can be an important tool for children with delayed language.  Through rhythm and rhyme, children can learn a slower and more rhythmic rate of speech that can support more intelligible communication.  So this week, turn on the music and spend some time marching and clapping to the beat.  To extend play with the book more, here are some animal pictures.  Model the actions as well as the animal sounds.  See if your child will imitate.  Can you and your child make up actions for other animals?

Chop like an alligator
 

Shiver like a polar bear

 



Hop like a bunny

 
Pounce like a cat

 
Peck like a chicken
 

Chew like a cow