Mrs. Carini’s Class Week of: March 9th February 9th Reminders/ Important class JJ Info What we did this week: Celebrating Families Dinner is coming soon. The dinner is This week we have enjoyed so many books by Laura Numeroff. Thursday, March 26th! 4k is We even got to listen to some of the stories on the smart board! We putting together 2 baskets. practiced two very important drills this week. We had a Fire Drill and a Our themes are: Outdoor Lock Down drill and did awesome! We also had a special presentation Summer Fun and Game Night. about reptiles. We got to touch a few turtles and a snake! Bring in any items you wish to donate to the baskets ASAP. In math centers this week, we did activities based on the stories we read. We practiced matching and sorting shapes on “cupcake” mats. We also worked on counting and using a 10 frame on a “muffin” mat. We Thanks! Friday folders return for a had to read the number on the muffin and fill in that many of our boxes sticker. (Homework is letter N on a ten frame. The last center helped us with number recognition, and counting carefully. We had to match the number of chocolate chips on a Homework went home today, in page and number 14 page) No 4K March 27th due to Kindergarten Screening. “cookie” to the number on the page. We did so well with this! Our number of the week was 14. Our letter of the week was N. We read a book about the letter N, talked about the sound it makes and practiced making it with various items (wood sticks, dry erase, shaving cream and We are in NEED of glue sticks, if you are able to bring in any…That would be great! stamp and see boards). We enjoyed listening and participating in activities that related to the books we read. After listening to If You Give a Pig a Pancake, we enjoyed counting pictures of the characters from the story on the smart board. After listening to If You Give a Moose a Muffin, we worked hard to put picture cards in sequential order of what happened in the story. We had to be good listeners to follow directions and complete this activity. On Wednesday we read If You Give a Pig a Party. We practiced our cutting and identifying shapes to make a pig with a party hat! We also enjoyed listening to If You Give a Cat a Cupcake, and decorating a cupcake for a traveling Books we read this week: If You Give a Pig a Pancake If You Give a Moose a Muffin If You Give a Dog a Donut If You Give a Pig a Party If You Give a Cat a Cupcake book. During snack one day we played a game with cookie crisp. We practiced letter recognition and covered up certain letters with cookies and then we got to eat them!! During center time we made a few art projects. We made a mouse with milk and a cookie –we had to cut circles, triangles and a rectangle and write the word MILK. We also made a donut for dog using real sprinkles. We had another fun week together! Theme for next week: March 16th St.Patrick’s Day/Rainbows The Adventures of Abby Alligator NEXT STAR OF THE WEEK: Evan March 16th