I Ain't Gonna Paint No More!!!

This past week we had our Valentine’s Day party!!!  It was great fun to see everyone and watch our friends taking turns, sharing, remembering everyone’s names and saying please and thank you!!!  What a wonderful job you do of promoting language and encouraging your little ones to talk and express what they want at home!!  Thank you so much for all the presents!  Ms. Donelle and I loved all the gifts!!!

We read the story “Where does the car go?” about different transportation vehicles and where do they go.  The truck goes on the road.  The helicopter goes in the sky.  This was a great activity to work on prepositional phrases using the words in and on to describe where the vehicle was and to promote more language.  You could do the same at home.  Where does the cup go?  In the sink.  Where does the fork go?  In the drawer.  This is a great way to use more descriptive words and increase language.     We also watched a video about trucks and cars and the sounds that they make on the road.

We All Go Traveling By….https://www.google.com/webhp?sourceid=chrome-instant&ion=1&espv=2&ie=UTF-8#q=we+all+go+traveling+by

We are working on counting in math.  My goodness so many of our friends can already count to 5!!!  That is so amazing and wonderful to see how high they can count.  Please encourage counting at home, by counting toys, socks, toothbrushes, cans of soup, etc.  Anything to help them increase counting is wonderful! 

We also went to the library and listened to Ms. Jenkins tell a story about painting!  Titled “I ain’t Gonna Paint No More!” about a little boy that paints the house all sorts of colors and then paints his body!  The link to the video the students watched is below.  We will do this as a class project at the end of the year, weather permitting.  It is so fun to paint one another!!

I Ain’t Gonna Paint No More!  https://vimeo.com/67950933

Our school was challenged for each family to collect 25 box tops and send them in during the month of February.  If every student brought in just 25 box tops each, we would collect over 20,000 box tops in just one month, which would be more than $2,000 dollars.  We also encourage everyone to ask extended family to collect them as well.