Letters, Stories and Yoga (Krista)

This week, we continued our focus on early literacy. In addition to our letter and sound exploration, we explored the different ways to tell a story.

This week, we celebrated the letter ‘D’.

Here is the list of ‘D’ words the children came up with:

Damon Dress Drip

Daddy Dark Drop

Dip Don’t Doll

Drink Dinner Down

(Chef) Dan Dandelion

The children told a tag-team story about a duck and a dog:

(Alaira, Mia G, Jalie, Anika)

Alaira began:

Some ducks were there and they love to swim so so so much!

Mia G:

One duck really liked his friends at school and he played and he swimmed.

Jalie:

Then one duck walked off down the path. He was lonely.

Anika:

Then he was walking around like a little fool, and a monster came and the duck was very scared.

Jalie:

Then a dog came walking down the sidewalk and he was very tired.

Alaira:

Then he laid down and him didn’t take a nap though.

The Very Hungry Caterpillar:

(Corbin, Mia G, Jalie, Lucca, Gwen)

The Process:

First, we read the story together. Then, the children worked together to re-tell the story from memory. Next we re-told the story using special stickers and fold-out scenes from the story. Finally, the children told the story of The Very Hungry Caterpillar with yoga poses and body language.

Next week, the children will have the opportunity to create and illustrate a story of their own.

Yoga:

We’re learning a new yoga song that you may be hearing at home. Here it is:

“Om Gwen, celebrate Gwen! Sing it with an open and a joyful heart!

Om Ryland, celebrate Ryland, sing it with an open heart!”

-we repeat until all of the children have been named...try it at home, it'll make you feel happy, i promise!-

Scenes from the classroom:

Lucca and Mia G. taking turns caring for the plants, using a sponge to clean each leaf and talking about the plant's feelings.

Corbin thinking and talking about sea urchins and jellyfish and sharing stories about when he and his momma where swimming in the ocean dodging jellyfish stingers.

Allie and Alaira acting out the story of the three little pigs, ‘puffing and huffing’ until they were red in the face.

Alaira and Corbin discussing whales in the ocean:

Alaira: “ I know what whales sound like. Them say, “woooo-wooooo-woooo” to everybody and that means I love you and I'm really hungry.

Corbin: “Yep, they do, I heard them before. Especially humpback whales are hungry.”

**We said see you later to Ava today. On Monday, she will be going to another school. We're gonna miss her and we send her lots and lots and LOTS of love! We can't wait to hear about all of her new adventures ;).

Happy Valentine's Day! xoxo