The children really enjoyed our "snowball fight" last week. They have asked to repeat it this week for a child who was ill, and we're planning to "battle" Mrs. Hague's class on Thursday.
In Nature/Science we're lookin forward to learning about otters this week. We'll read excerpts form Amazing Otters and listen to Scamp's New Home (book and tape). We'll pretend to be otters and move to Mozart's Horn Concerto in D major, Allegro. We will observe and sketch a purple Orchid for our Nature Journals. We'll also visit our garden and read, When Winter Comes.
In Phonics we will read The Cat in the Hat and listen for rhyming words. We'll practice matching picture stamps that rhyme from our Phonemic Awareness Stamp to Learn Program. Our letter for the week is "N", and we will sort objects beginning with "M" and "N" into letter tubs.
We're having fun learning new songs for our study of Texas. We're practicing "Home on the Range", "Sweet Betsy From Pike", "Kumbaya", and "Texas, Our Texas". We're also learning the Texas Symbols, and we will make Bluebonnets, Armidillos, and Texas Flags in Art this week. We'll continue to work with Beanbags and Hula Hoops in music as we listen and follow directions to "Shake, Rattle, and Roll", "Happy Days", and "WipeOut".
