The Hat

Today our read aloud was titled The Hat by Jan Brett.  She is the same author of the story The Mitten, which we read yesterday.  While reading the story today we compared the characters in the two stories.  Some of the children noticed that there was a hedgehog in both stories.  Another child noticed that there was a horse in The Hat, but not in The Mitten.  The following is the link to Jan Brett's website.  Here you can find wonderful coloring pages to download, as well as a list of her exceptional stories.  http://www.janbrett.com/index.html

With the beginning of a new year I have planned some changes in our route.  Most days we do two centers.  Because the children are more efficient then in the beginning of the year, on some days I am going to add a third center.  This center will involve the children in letter and writing work.  Today some of the children played an alphabet bingo game with Mrs. Palmer.  With Mrs. Severson the children visited starfall.com.  We did have a power outage that has affected our computers, so the children worked in pairs at this center.  We hope to get the glitches out soon.  At my center the children sounded out the words I can and wrote the letters that matched the sounds that they heard.  They then completed the sentence with a word or two that they can do.  At this point we are just beginning to learn to write the letters for the sounds that we hear.  Not all children are ready for this stage, so my center will continually change to meet the needs of the children.

 

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