Candy Cane surprises!

This morning the kids worked on things that go together and opposite puzzles. They found the picture pairs and checked to see if they were right by putting the puzzle together. If the pieces fit they they answered correctly, if they didn't fit they tried again.

During morning circle we talked about the calendar and continued our AABB pattern. We practiced Sounds Around Town. The kids learned a new sound cousins...the nose sounds. Theses sounds (m, n, and ng) make our nose vibrate. Then we built words that rhymed with -in. The kids pulled a letter from the mystery box. They put it on the felt square and sounded out the word. We sounded out bin, pin, tin, chin, shin, and fin.

For writing centers today the kids practiced writing the letter M, wrote in their journal, practiced making capital letters with magnetic strips and wrote sight words. 

Our story today was "The Longest Christmas List Ever" by Gregg Spiridellis. The story was about a little boy who was determined not to leave anything off his Christmas list. He carries his list with him wherever he went... for an entire year. At the end of the story he realized there was only one thing he really wanted. After reading the story the kids shared toy they want for Christmas. We also listened to and practiced our show Brown Reindeer, Brown Reindeer and our holiday songs.

 

For science today we had a candy cane experiment. We made observations about different candy canes. We recorded how they look, smelled, and how we thought they were going to taste. After making our predictions we opened up the candy canes and tasted them to see if our predictions were correct. We tasted peppermint, cherry, watermelon, orange, pineapple, and raspberry cane canes! It was so much fun!

After eating lunch we practice our songs one more time before packing up to go home. This week sure did fly by!