Getting little hands ready to write!

We have been busy exploring materials in our classroom that use our fine motor motor (hand) muscles. All of these activities will help us as we learn and practice writing our names. 

We made shape pictures using pattern block stickers. Stickers can be so tricky to get off!

We made rocket ships and houses by combining shapes. We added details to shapes with crayons to make things like the sun below. 

Lacing is a great quiet fine motor activity. We have been working on these animal lacing shapes when we wake up from naps.  Look at all that great lacing! 

More stickers! Except this time, students matched colors and numbers to work on fine motor skills and recognizing the numbers 1-4. 

Painting! Always a favorite. In this activity we created our first intial on paper using painters tape and then painted over it in our favorite colors. When the paint was dry we peeled off the tape to reveal "magic letters."

We made necklaces using letter beads. (They were so proud of the finished result!) But first we had to find our letters and match them to our name tags. 

As part of our morning meeting every day we practice tracing our name, and our friends names too. 

Dear Families,

A note came home today about scheduling parent/teacher conferences on Wednesday, November 10th. Your child and I are preparing great things for this,  and we hope you will call Mrs. Sanfilippo to schedule an appointment. If you can't make it on the 10th, we can schedule an alternative time. And remember, no school on Veterans Day, 11/11. See you soon!

Turkeys in Disguise!

Today we kicked off a new Lura Libby tradition (started last year, thanks to Ms. Dailey) of disguising turkeys. We read the book Turkey Trouble by Wendi Silvano, in which a turkey disguises himself as other animals on the farm in hopes that he won't end up on the dining room table. We are asking each class to read the book and take some turkey templates home to disguise with their families. Parents, we want you to make one too! Be sure to look in the hall by the Kindergarten rooms to check out the turkeys! I can't wait to see what the turkeys will be wearing this year!

Here is a look at a few from last year :)
 

One of our favorite transition songs!

When we are changing activities I often play a youtube song to help us transition smoothly. This is one of our current favorites by Pete Harry. It is a great song to help get the wiggles out.

Happy Halloween from KP!

Dear KP, What is your favorite part of the school day?

To help us learn sight words we make a shared writing,

predictable chart each week.

On the first day we make our class chart, focusing on our sight words. (For this chart our focus was on the word like)

On the second day we cut up our sentences and put them back together correctly.

On the third day we illustrate our sentences and glue them back together in order.

On the fourth day we write our sentences all by ourselves!

On the fifth day we scanned our writing on the computer and made an electronic book. Check it out below :)