Feb 13-17

This week at Elm Park we learned about the letter r and the number 5.  As usual the kids wrote the letter r all week in many mediums.  They practiced doing 5 things (clapping, stomping, etc) and picking out groups of 5.  We searched for the letter r in sentences and created lists of r words. 

We finished up our Arctic/Antarctic studies with the Arctic fox.  The children made a preference chart with the animals that we've learned about and voted on their favorites.  With this we discussed the concepts of most and least (and fewer and greatest).  We played an Arctic fox game where the students tried to get the most berries.  We also played a review dice game where the children had to do different tasks, for example, stomp to something red, or fly to something white.  We talked about transportation in the snow and ice, specifically ice skates, snow shoes, and sleighs.  The kids made ice skates and caribou hats.  Kids tomorrow will make dog pulled sleighs.

We had an awesome Valentine's Day party and the kids loved decorating cookies and eating them!!

The older children continued to read their books; Big, Go Go Go, and Can She Go.  These books will be coming home so you can continue to practice with them over the break.  They are reading really well!

We will have next week off as we follow the district calendar of Poway Unified School District.  Enjoy your little ones for the week and we look forward to their return on Feb. 27.



The children built a pirate ship with pride!!



Valentine's Day party

Valentine's Day party

Another party pic

Our little caribou!



Sydney sharing the letter J.