Letter Muncher

For those of you who have never seen my original Letter Muncher, here is a picture!

Pumpkins!

Pumpkins have arrived in the classroom! Friday after school, my dad helped me pick out some pumpkins from the patch he planted at my grandmas house. These two beauties are already at school and ready for a fun activity! Two more will be coming towards the end of the month to carve in class. Keep watching the blog for pictures of these pumpkins and other fun pumpkin activities.

Journals

On Wednesdays and Thursdays, each class has been completing a page in their journals for morning work. This is something new I started using this year to get extra practice with academic skills we are learning about that week. So far we have been tracing and coloring the shape of the week. During this activity, The students are practicing writing skills,  find motor skills, tracing skills, hand/eye coordination, and working towards being able to independently draw the shapes. As the year goes on we will continue to use the journals to practice name writing and tracing, number writing and tracing, and letter writing and tracing.

C is for cookie.... and Cheerios!

This week for C, we baked sugar cookies and the students used tongue depressors to put icing on them and ate the cookies for snacktime. We also counted Cheerios,  which the students were able to eat after the activity,  and I sent the activity home with more Cheerios so each student could do this at home with their parents. We also had picture day on Wednesday and Thursday. For our letter C project, we glued cotton balls to the letter C. The students not only fed Letter Muncher, but also Cookie Monster chocolate chip cookies!  Two students rolled a large dice,  we added the numbers each student rolled and created a number sentence.  Example 5+2=7. Each student then picked up and counted the number of cookies they rolled and fed them to Cookie Monster. Thanks to Kohls and the Kohls cares for kids program,  I was able to purchase the Cookie Monster plush for this activity for only five dollars.

Here are some pictures!

Potato Heads

A big thank you to my assistant Mrs. Carr for bringing several Mr. Potato Heads to school for the kids.  They love them! The students are using their  imaginations , creativity, fine motor skills and problem solving skills.

Letter Muncher 2.0

I got a new Letter Muncher this year! He is a zipper pencil box from Wal-Mart. The kids love him! Each week, he eats pictures of objects that start with the letter we are studying for the week. Each student feeds him the picture and he gobbles it up! If he eats a picture that starts with a different letter, he spits it out! This week he is eating the letter C.

All About Me project

At the beginning of the school year,  we started an all about me project. Each student received a poster in their folders and took the project home to complete with their parents. The students and parents had to count the letters in the child's name, find which letters of the alphabet are in the child's name, count the letters, and figure out what letters their name started and ended with to fill out the poster. They also answered some fun questions, One being what is a special fact about your name. It was so much fun reading about how each child was given their name by their parents. The reasons varied from being named after family members to family traditions, favorite songs and hobbies. A big thank you to the parents for sharing these fun facts with us and working with your child to create this wonderful keepsake. Here are a few pictures of the posters!