Word Wall & Show & Tell

I'm always looking for ways to incorporate our word wall into our learning. In addition to the buzz words that come from our theme units I have started to incorporate items brought in during show & tell too.

While the children are showing and telling I keep my card strips and sharpie nearby so I can write down what it is they are sharing. 

 After they finish we quickly discuss what letter they think the item starts with and then each child gets to place their card with the corresponding letter. It's been very successful so far! Although my current class is small I know larger classes would probably not be able to do this unless show and tell is narrowed down to only a few but since we're small everybody shares every week!

  Until next time...

Valentine's Activities

Last week was so much fun! We learned about fairy tales. Of course we took advantage of hearts for Valentine's Day!

We began by decorating our goody bags!

Fortunately I was able to find lots of great ideas for activities on Pinterest like these...

I was even able to use my fairy tale dress up dolls to coordinate with our theme.

More Pinterest ideas....

I was even inspired to work on one of my own where the children matched the letters of their names to make their own cards to take home!

I also decided to use the tp roll shaped hearts to decorate our lovely Valentine's Day cards.

We were very fortunate enough to have an awesome parent allow us to borrow more than enough princess dress up props for our princess party we threw.

More fun ideas I modified 

Last but not least always finding more opportunities for writing experiences. I've even come up with something I think will be great to incorporate daily!  More on that later...

See you next time!

Helping with Fine Motor Skills

As we were decorating our bags today I found a really cool way to help reduce waiting time while working with peeling the backs off of stickers!