It tickles me to see the children sign in now. They are no longer self conscious or worried they "can't" write their name. I remind them that we are learning how and doing it by practicing. In the chart below I wrote Eva's name with her and a few dots to get some students going. Writing his/her own name is a Kindergarten prerequisite. ( I am not worried that some of the students put letters not in linear order. The said the letters aloud as they rote them but weren't concerned with where the letters ended up.) Our class is really learning!
Toys: (New) Fisher Price Construction set, Airport and Airplane, and FP Village, puppet theater, and hand puppets.
Snacks: PB Cracker sandwich crackers, oranges and pretzels.
Free Play: Nathan and Susie spontaneously practice alphabet letters, numbers, and simple Math problems. (It is normal through age 8 for students learning to write numbers and/or letters to have Reversals or backwards numbers or letters.)Students enjoyed listen about O the Ostrich whose occupation was singing opera in front of other ostriches, "O-o-o" (students put hands together in front of them and sing oah, oah, oah).
We "painted" O the Ostrich feathers with food dye and corn syrup. This was a lot of sticky fun and left a somewhat tacky but neat looking letter.
Talents: We enjoyed reading Amazing Grace by Mary Hoffman and talking about the little black girl who loved to listen to and re-enact stories. She believed she could be (or portray) anyone and so she won the part of Peter Pan in a play. Children named talents: soccer, ballet, singing, drawing, painting, or serving others. Some of these come more easily to us and some talents require us to take classes, learn the rules, and work hard at it/them.
We also worked on painting our hands and feet for our surprise present for our parents.
Books on Talents:
Amazing Grace by Mary Hoffman
Something Special
You Are Special!
You are Special by Max Lucado
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