Friday Fun

Today we had another fun learning day.  The children visited all three of our centers during center time.  At Miss Sue/Mrs. Palmer's center the children made the letter "q" page for their letter book.  We were so busy during our "q" week that we never got to it, so today was the day to get it done.  At my center the children made a page to go along with the class book we are making titled Old Black Fly.  During center time I read the children this alphabet story by Jim Aylesworth.  At the center the children wrote their name on their page, and then cut a picture out of a magazine that they liked.  They then glued their picture onto their page.  Next the children decided what letter made the beginning sound for their picture.  They used alphabet stamps to stamp it on their page.  Lastly, they searched through the magazines for more pictures to glue onto their page that started with this letter.  I will assemble their pages into a book this weekend.

Mrs. Severson had the favorite center for the day.  At her center the children visited the website http://pbskids.org/  Once here I clicked on the games arrow.  On the next page there is a set of 10 buttons.  There is a tree, a dinosaur, a first aid kit, etc.  I clicked on the orange button with the six white squares inside it.  By doing this you will see the topics of games that are available. http://pbskids.org/games/alltopics.html  Today we played letter games.  A few that the children visited were:    Dog's Letter Pit
                        Alpha Pigs Lickety Letter Bingo
                        Bear's Skateboard Park
                        Alpha Bricks
  Other really good ones are:
                        Red's Rhyme and Roll
                        Amazing Alphabet Match
                        Elmo Rhyme
                        Alpha Pigs Paint by Letter
Some of the good games under the counting button are:
                        Chicken Count
                        Bug Catcher
                        How Tall

Another activity that the children enjoyed was due to an accident.  For the children who are working on letters I took one of my daughter's balls and wrote the trickier letters on it with a permanent marker.  During play time I called a couple of friends over and played catch with them.  When they caught the ball they had to tell me which letter their thumb was on or near.  Once we started playing the rest of the class wanted to play too.  Since it started raining at the end of the day we all went to the gym to play this game.  You may want to keep this activity in mind for the future.  I also works when practicing high frequency words, spelling words, and addition and subtraction facts.