Week of Dec 8th 2014

This week during our Early Literacy Drop-In we played Musical Letters.  The chairs were set up in a circle, each with an alphabet letter.  The children danced around the letters to the drum music - when the drumming stopped the children had to write their letter on a white board.  These boys were motivated and managed to practice writing lots of letters while having some fun! 

During our story circle we heard a Christmas story about a girl who asked for 3 gifts: one small gift, one medium gift and one large gift. 

'ƛ̓eekoo ƛ̓eekoo' to 

Jacqueline for sharing her music.

We also had a great time during our Outdoor Drop-In - we started with some physical work, tracing around tires and making patterns.  Young children need a great deal of practice using their whole body to make marks, it is an important step in being able to write smaller with pencil on paper.

After all of this writing we decided to move the tires to see our patterns.  The children immediately noticed that our marks looked like a snowman.  This motivated us to add some details as well as create a second snowman out of found objects in our playground!

Happy Holidays everyone!

We will have our last week of Drop-Ins for the year next week:

Early Literacy Morning on Wednesday 8:45-12:00

Outdoor Drop-In on Friday 8:45-10:00

Everyone is welcome!

Dec 3rd - Early Literacy Morning

This morning we added a projector and alphabet letters to our learning space.  The children were immediately interested and explored with letters sounds, letter names and even some simple words.  We also used our gross motor skills to trace the GIANT letters projected onto the wall.

Later we heard a new story about Portia the Polar Bear. Can you remember some of the things that Portia likes to eat? 

The children used puppets, sang songs and played the drums.  

Our Early Literacy Drop-In Morning is every Wednesday from 8:45-12:00 with our story circle starting at 9:45.

Everyone is Welcome!

Drop-Ins - week of Nov 26th

It was such a busy week that we are behind with our blog posts...
Last week saw two fun Drop-In sessions on Wednesday and Friday.  During our outdoor morning we set up pipes with the wood blocks and invited children to explore using small balls and cars.  We also played a fun number game using basketballs and pylons.  The children were given open-ended challenges such as:

"Knock down a number bigger than 2 and smaller than 5."

"Hit the number that is one more than 3."  

"Knock over an even number."

The children were also given a chance to 'Be the Teacher' and practiced giving instructions to their friends - a great way to develop communication skills!

Earlier in the week we heard 3 stories during our Drop-In Literacy Morning and did several activities to develop language and pre-writing skills.

 Our Early Literacy Morning is every Wednesday and our Outdoor Drop-In is every Friday 8:45~12:00.  

Everyone is welcome!

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