This week was our first full week of alphabet review! The kids have been doing great and have been working so hard on their caterpillars. I hope you've had a chance to display the pieces that have come home so far. You should have circles up to at least G (some of the H, I and J circles went home Friday, some are still here drying).
We also learned a few new games to help us review the alphabet. A really simple one that the kids love is trashcan basketball. Each piece of paper on the ground has a letter on it. The kids are assigned a letter to find and once they find the correct piece of paper they crumple it up and shoot it into the garbage like a basketball. This game is really easy to put together and can be used to review anything your child needs to work on. Just draw numbers, shapes, colors, letters or whatever else you want on the papers! This would be a great game to play at home.
This week we walked around outside the house on a bug hunt. We found ants, a spider and several flying things, but the kids' favorite find was this grasshopper. We saw him a couple times and they loved seeing how close they could get to him before he hopped away.
This week we focused a lot on caterpillars and butterflies. We learned about their life cycle and about the monarch butterfly migration.
We also talked about bug patterns and practiced making patterns with caterpillars. Later in the week we made our own tree, complete with branches, flowers and butterflies.
When the kids left on Friday the caterpillars had all formed chrysalides. I can't wait to show them what has happened over the weekend!
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