We ended our unit on China today with a Chinese Food Tasting! The children tried all different types of foods from China. They did a great job using their chopsticks and trying new foods. I was amazed at how many children loved it!
We have been learning about the green sea turtle during our study of hawaii. We had the opportunity to watch baby sea turtles hatch, dig their way out of their nest and scurry to the open sea!
The final animal we added to our African study was the Dung Beetle…what a curious and icky creature! Click the photo below to view a video of this insect in action.
We have been building a folder of Africa Animals during writing workshop this month. The children have been introduced to three new animals per week, watching a simple video clip of the animal in its habitat and learning interesting facts about them. Writing Workshop is on Monday and Friday. On Fridays, the children add the animals they have learned about during the week to their folder and get to collect their animal post card containing the facts we’ve learned. The folder will be sent home at the end of the month of April. They are doing an amazing job..they are fantastic writers! Remember that “inventive” spelling is okay. Encourage your child to listen to the sounds in each word as they say them and write those letters instead of spelling the words for your child.
For a GREAT article on inventive spelling click the first picture below.
Today we explored the letters of the alphabet! We played an uppercase/lowercase matching game and hung our letters on a monkey clothesline. Playing games like these help letter recognition and understanding the alphabet in order.
During whole group this afternoon we continued to discuss Africa. We started with what we already know about Africa and listed everything we could remember from our study so far in April. Next we thought about what we were wondering about and what we still wanted to learn about the African savanna. Then we read a nonfiction book all about the continent and discussed new things we learned in the story. What an impressive chart the preschoolers made!
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