Our Week

Insects

This week was all about insects!

We started our week by learning what an insect is – a bug that has 6 legs, a three-part body, antennas, and often wings.
To put what we learned into practice we completed a bug sort, working to identify which bugs were insects. The kids were mostly fascinated looking through bug photographs and only slightly grossed out on occasion.
We then worked to create a simple, yet beautiful, dragonfly from paper, gems, and a popsicle stick.
One of our new favorite activities this week has been our sticker art at our easel. To bring this fun into our more structured learning, we completed a syllable worksheet that used sticker dots to illustrate how many syllables were in each word.
On Tuesday, we worked our fine motor skills by creating a bead caterpillar on a leaf. This activity paired wonderfully with reading “The Very Hungry Caterpillar” by Eric Carle.
To explore symmetry, the kids used scissors to cut along a folded piece of paper, opening it to reveal a butterfly! We then put paint inside the butterfly on one wing, closed it, then reopened it to see the beautiful symmetrical design we had made.
We worked really hard this week on number sense. The kids completed a caterpillar building math activity, a tens frame worksheet, and practiced reading our bug hunt counting books to the class!! I was very impressed with their work during both of these activities.
We also completed a fly/crawl sort during the week and separated our insects by the number of syllables in their names.
For some imaginative fun, the kids used Play-doh to create their own insects. I was impressed by the amount of detail they used!
During circle we continue to practice singing the alphabet, identifying letters Aa-Zz, practicing all letter sounds, counting in sequence to 100, identifying numbers 1-10, practicing spelling names, rhyming words, separating words into syllables, and reviewing any new skills learned throughout the week.

✨ Looking Ahead
Next week will be all about…

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