Brr! It sure is cold outside! Please be sure that your child has cold weather gear at school. Even though we don't go outside unless the feels like temperature is about ten degrees, it is important to have those winter items here in case of an emergency. :)
Castle play this morning
Many friends made creations to enhance their castle play!
Hunter requested to look at the symbols for shields to create a shield for his play!
During morning meeting, we watched another short video about knights!
During small group time we made a list of items that we needed to collect to help us learn, discover, and enhance our play about knights!
The children worked to write the words for the list. Each child is unique, so therefore success for each child is unique. Success for some children is sounding out the word independently. Success for some children is writing each letter independently. Success for some children is using a correct pencil grip. Success for some children is looking at the letter that needs to be written and copying it.
We played a castle game with Mrs. Runge today too! Mrs. Runge came to help today as Mrs. Buchholz was sick. As we played the game, we practiced quantifying the dots on the dice! (Quantifying means to look at four dots and see that there are four dots without needing to count them.)
We also practiced writing words in our journals! The children showed each other the words that they wrote in their journals, and many of the children were able to identify the word because of their familiarity with the word. This is a valuable pre-reading skill!
Our castle play continues to deepen and mature.
Mature play is important because when children engage in mature play, they are also developing important cognitive skills.
Signs of mature play include:
Assigning roles to one another
("You be the knight. I will be the dragon"
and
Planning play
("Pretend I was the king and I told you to run away."
"Okay then pretend when I ran away, I got stuck in mud and the knight had to come save me.")
Working hard on creations
Riley wanted to know how to make a paper airplane. She asked me if I knew how, and I told her I did not. She then suggested, "Well we can look it up!"
I asked her, "Where can we look it up?"
"On the computer," she responded.
This shows that she understands a fundamental principal of learning: if you don't know the answer to something, look it up! This skill is one of the goals of early childhood education.
During Jesus time, we acted out the story of the Good Samaritan. We discussed ways that we can show God's love to each other like the Good Samaritan did. We thanked God for forgiving us when we forget to show His love. We also thanked God for the greatest showing of love: sending His Son, Jesus, to die on the cross and rise again to save us from our sins!
After Jesus time, we danced to some our of favorite SMARTboard songs!
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