Week of March 9-12, 2015

Week of March 9-12, 2015

Theme: Being Healthy

Focus Question: What are good healthy habits?

Letter of the Week: A

Dear Families,

 During the week our class will be discussing and learning about ways to maintain personal health and hygiene. Children will learn the importance of developing healthy habits such as washing their hands frequently, brushing their teeth, dressing appropriately for weather conditions and getting enough sleep.

Learning Together

• With your child, make a chart that lists the healthy habits of hand washing, tooth brushing, and going to bed at a designated time. Have your child apply a sticker to the chart each time he or she accomplishes one of these tasks.
• Together, read Froggy Gets Dressed by Jonathan London and Jesse Bear, What Will You Wear? by Nancy Carlstrom. Then talk about clothing that is appropriate for specific types of weather. 

Activities

• We are going to make an Alligator for letter A. We will add teeth to our alligator by rolling the dice and counting out the correct number each time it is our turn.
• We will also be doing some simple adding by making a mouth and adding teeth as we roll two dice.
• We will talk about healthy habits such as washing our hands when we read the story, Those Mean, Nasty, Dirty, Downright Disgusting but Invisible Germs. We will follow that up with an activity that demonstrates how many germs are on our hands that we can't see, how we can pick them up and transfer them to other objects and how to get rid of them: WASH YOUR HANDS.
• We will also talk about brushing our teeth. We will read the story Those Icky Sticky Smelly Cavity-Causing but Invisible Germs.
• We will sort objects by determining if they are healthy for our teeth or not healthy.
• We will practice flossing teeth by using a large duplo block with play-doh placed in between each raised circle (tooth) and using a piece of yarn (floss) to get the play-doh out.
• We will also do an experiment with a hard boiled white egg. The egg will be placed in Pepsi to sit. The Pepsi changes the eggs color to a light brown color. First the children will try brushing the egg with just a toothbrush and then they will brush the egg with a toothbrush and toothpaste. We will compare which method worked best for getting the egg the cleanest.
• When we go to the gym this week we will play a germ pick up game on scooter boards.

Upcoming Activities

• Spring Break-April 3-12. Return to school on April 13.
• As a reminder Show and Share is every Thursday. Please take the opportunity to pick out something with your child that starts with the letter of the week to bring in and share. Although I always have extras the children get especially excited when it is something they have chosen special from home. This week the letter of the week is A.