Sorry this posted is late and 

the pictures posted somewhat out of order

A few friends didn't get their Christmas presents from Mrs Larimore

and I, so we had them open them right before we went outside. Which was

perfect because we made winter hats and they put them right on.

Chilly but the kiddos never once complained about being cold

They were having so much fun just running around and discovering

"frost" all over the playground

  Story time..... Leo wanted to be Sit By the Teacher for his job today

mostly because he wanted to do the teacher assistant part of this job,

which is pointing to the letters with our special pointer after we eat

snack..... pictures of that further down

Luke was weather helper today

our weather chart is set up also like a calendar

when I first introduced this

we start with just counting how many sunny/rainy/

snowy/ etc days...

As we come back from Christmas break,

the children will be ready for a little more

I will put what MONTH it is on top

and we will talk about what day of the week

it is (probably won't focus on the actually date)

but just more today is Monday, which means yesterday was Sunday

or I will say since today is Monday, tomorrow is Tuesday

Since the children are asking about the "blank" spots

which are Saturday and Sunday slots

Our Friday weather helper will put up Saturday(which will be

just a square that says Saturday(a stay at home day)

And our Monday weather helper can also put up Sunday's

Again, we won't focus too much on it, but just to introduce

days of the week. With a multi-aged group of children

some of the class is ready for more. There are o many

great aspects to have multi-aged kiddos together. One example is as our older students 

are ready for more complex thinking they can be great

role models for our younger kiddos

 

 

Leo was so excited to be the teacher assistant and point to each letter

  After we pointed to each letter, I passed out 4 BIG lines and 3 LITTLE

lines to each kiddo and they were able to look at our letter wall and 

make any of the letters that are formed with only lines that they chose to make

They were super proud of themselves 

 Then we used our Smartboard

and had a chance to "write" letters !! Each child got to come up and choose 3

letters they wanted to make. Such a great way to end learning about all the letters

they are made from just LINES!!!

The children love using the Smartboard

Each child got to choose which letters they wanted to make

Luke wanted to write his name

and put a "box around it"........

Look at his L......

He made what I call

bubble letters!

Center Time

 I left the Smartboard on and a few of the kiddos really enjoyed

just drawing whatever they wanted to make

I had some random "CRAFT" supplies left over from I think last 

year. Carly had a great time making ornaments. She made one ornament

for each friend that was at school Friday. After she made the ornament, she wanted to put each friends name on the back and then made sure helped put it in his back pack to go home after she gave it to each friend

end of day exercises.... squats

Looks like these pictures below which are from the very beginning of our day

just posted at the bottom

MORNING WORK

Love Leo's sunglasses

Luke playing a counting game

Luke made a KITE with the tangrams(puzzle blocks)

Great job!

Brody was taking pictures and cutting to make his own puzzles