Today we read The Princess and the Peas.

This one was quite different from the others, but we still were able to find similarities.

Thankful Thursday

I love the picture with this one!

 Today we read The Tossy-Turny Princess and the Pesky Pea

This story gave us lots of ideas for what to do if you can't sleep.

We continue to work on estimation.

We looked at pictures like this one and we talked about whether we thought the number was closer to five or ten.

"I think its closer to ten because I see a lot of acorns."

Two days in one! Our tale this week is The Princess and the Pea

Yesterday I was out of the classroom. Ms. Rummenie started the week off with The Penguin and the Pea.

Today we read Rachel Isadora's telling of the tale.

The Princess has so much trouble sleeping! What do you do if you have trouble sleeping?

"I think happy thoughts."

"I check my bed for lumps."

For Tuneful Tuesday we kept working on songs we know. For our song "I like to play the sticks", we are starting to use specific rhythms when we play our sticks.

We are learning to read music too!

Ask your child to read these rhythms.

(Hint - ta - ta - ti-ti - ta and ti-ti - ta - ti-ti - ta)

In Math we are learning about estimation. Estimation is a very valuable skill to have.

Today we tried estimating how many blocks were in this bag.

We didn't get to look at the bag for very long and then we made our estimations - or guesses.

First we decided on a number that was too small.

Then one that was two big.

Once we had our brackets, so to speak, we made our estimates.

I was very impressed with our estimates! 

Then we counted to check our estimates.

You can practice estimating at home.

About how many shoes are at the door?

How many socks do you think are in your drawer?

 Fun Friday!

That means Elephant and Piggy!

Our focus in math this week was symmetry.

Ask your child what makes something symmetrical? Can you find anything symmetrical at home?

 Today we read The Three Snow Bears

How does a different setting change a story?

Tuneful Tuesday!

For /ch/ week we learned a song about a train - CHOO CHOO! We used shakers to make the train sounds as we sang. (chugga chugga....)

We read Goldy Luck and the Three Pandas.

Goldy Luck gets lucky for Lunar New Year. Ask your child about this story.

In math we looked at these four shapes and talked about which one doesn't belong with the others.

We came up with five different answers and all of them were right! 

Ask your child which one doesn't belong and why? 

Hint - each one doesn't belong depending on the attribute you are looking at.

 Our sound of the week this week is /ch/

Our fairy tale of the week is Goldilocks and the Three Bears.

We are learning about opposites

hot - cold

big - small

hard - soft

We are working on our mapping skills (early coding).

We are mapping out the steps of the story of Goldilocks and the Three Bears.