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Peer into My Week

1/25/2015

Highlights of what our week looked like.

Our Dreams

We started our week off with a book reading of I Have a Dream and a group discussion of what our dreams would be today.

During work time children created their I have a Dream sign for the march. The children did a fabulous job coming up with their dreams for our world.

This one made me laugh. "For New World not to be rude."

Group Writing

Each week we do a group writing activity where we work on letter formation and guided drawings. Here is a peek at what their writing is looking like.

Creating Together

In the clay studio we worked on a community pots. Where children collaborated together to create a unique classroom pot that we will use to make a nature arrangement.

Next Week's Plans

Learning about Hibernation and Shadows
What animals hibernate
Introduce New Letter D and Review letter H, P and F
Opposites
Naming Feelings
Spacial Vocabulary

My Plans
Monday

Changing Centers

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Main Resources

Groundhog Day is February 2nd! Will he see his shadow? Be prepared for this fun day with some fun hands on learning activities that are sure to spark the interest of all children in your classroom.

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4 Comments

Juliw

2/10/2015 12:27:14 pm

Tami -
I have a few questions - what program do you use for your lesson plans? Also, the writing program that you have for the kids looks interesting, could you tell me what that program is called.

Tami

2/10/2015 02:11:55 pm

We use Little Treasures Language & Literacy and Math Connects for our curriculum. I inhance the curriculum with the Preschool Learning Foundation and materials that I create myself.

The district is big on directional writing, we found out that using lap boards was the easiest way to to demonstrate writing. We give them verbal and visual direction. We also use you tube preschool writing video. That is what you can see in the background of one of the pictures. It gives verbal and directional arrows for the children to follow along with.

I hope this was helpful, Tami

Julie

2/11/2015 08:43:43 am

Tami - Our students are struggling with letter formations, so I was interested in what program your students were using. What is the name of the you tube video? The new program we are using just doesn't seem to be connecting with the students.

Thank you for sharing -

2/12/2015 05:08:03 am

I do not use a particular program for my writing lessons. We do weekly shared writing activities during group time where we have a group discussion and I write down what the children say and talk about sentence structure, spacing, punctuation and letter formation. We also do a group directional writing activity weekly. you can read more about it here. http://www.learningandteachingwithpreschool.com/blog/group-writing-activity
Also I use this video during our group writing.
http://youtu.be/eldP9qW4sdg
I also do small group letter formation activities with chalk boards and play dough letter mats. These kinds of activities are in my plans weekly. The more they are exposed to it the better they get at it.