Week of March 2-5, 2015

Week of March 2-5, 2015

Theme: How animals move

Focus Question: How do animals move?

Letter of the Week: K

Dear Family,

As we conclude our animal theme, we will focus on the variety of ways in which animals move. We will review animal body parts and make a connection between body parts and movement. In addition to using the words walk, swim, and fly, children will expand their vocabulary to include words such as stomp, waddle, and slither.

Learning Together

• Play a game of "Simon Says" with your child. give instructions such as: "Simon says stomp: or "Simon says swim.
• While reading books identify animals in the story. Identify how the animals are moving: walking, flying, running, and swimming.
• Look through picture books of animals with your child. Discuss and pantomime how each of the animals moves.

Activities:

• Monday is Dr. Seuss's Birthday. So in honor of his birthday we will read one of his books, Mr. Brown Can Moo! Can You? and we will make a special Seuss craft.
• We will also participate in making the sounds and moving like the animals and objects while we read the story.
• We will read the story Move! After reading the story we will try to recall some of the animals and describe how they moved. We will also move our bodies like the animals.
• We will sort animals by whether they are animals you see at the zoo or animals you see at the farm.
• We will also do a different animal sort about where animals move: on land, in the air or in the water.
•  On Wednesday when we go to the gym we will play Animal Charades and move our bodies like a variety of animals.
• This week we will also make a letter K craft for our letter of the week. 
• We will use our building sticks to build our new letter K and review our letters from the month of February: D, P, B, and R.
• The a.m. class will get the opportunity to go to an assembly on March 4th to watch the second grade musical performance. 

Reminders:

• Show and Share is every Thursday and features the letter of the week. Please take some time to find something at home that starts with the letter of the week on Wednesday night and place it in your child's backpack for school on Thursday.
• Spring Break is coming up: April 3-12. School will resume on April 13.
• If we should have another 2 hour delay the protocol is that the a.m. preschool session is cancelled and the p.m. session will come at their normal time.