Happy Valentines Day... aka the National Day of Love! This week we made heart shaped EVERYTHING, did fun Valentines Day activities, and even passed out sweet Valentines to all our friends. Our Fun Fact this week is... People spend a lot on love! Americans, in 2017, spent $18.2 billion on Valentines Day goodies. That's a lot of money. Learning and DiscoveryAside from Valentine's, we also learned a lot about the postal service and how mail works. On Tuesday, for our group activity, Mrs. Anne talked about addresses that we all have for our homes. We then used our fine motor skills to make mosaic houses. We cut out the shape of a house on paper, and then glued some scrap fabric to it to look like our own home. As a finishing touch, we pasted a sticker with our house number on it. We hung them up in our classroom and they look great! On Wednesday we made valentines for our parents. We cut, decorated, and wrote thoughtful notes (with the help of our High School teachers!) which we then put in envelopes with our addresses on them. After that, we took a quick "field trip" to the office where we dropped our letters off in the main office mail room. We can't wait to have the mail man deliver them in a few days! Some of our preschoolers had also been thinking about our old classroom and what it looks like now, so we also decided that we would take a little tour through our old room on the way back to our classroom. It is now being used as a workshop for for another class at Century- so it was crazy to see how much it had changed! On Thursday we spent most of our group time sharing our boxes and taking turns to pass out our Valentines to the whole class (see "Valentines" section below). It was very exciting to see all of the special notes and treats getting dropped into our boxes. Afterwards, we went outside to play in the misty weather. Free TimeOn Tuesday, at the Art table we got to create our own cute Valentines for our friends. We used our fine motor skills to cut, glue, and paste stickers, paper, and fabric, onto beautiful hearts that we cut out. After that we addressed them to one of our preschool friends- which they will get soon! At the Science station we got to pretend we were mailmen and "delivered" mail around the room by matching patterns on the envelopes to different patterns on bins, while at the Language table we discovered what the first letter was of some Valentines Themed words. At the Art table on Wednesday, we recreated a Mail Truck by cutting and gluing paper pieces together. They turned out so cute! At the Language table, we practiced writing names and dictated some short phrases and drew pictures to represent our nice notes on postcards for our friends. At the Science station we practiced counting though the use of some stamps and envelopes. On Thursday, for our Art table activity, we made adorable butterflies out of paper hearts and a Popsicle stick. After we had finished putting it all together, we stamped the wings with our hand prints. At the Language station we stamped our names onto hearts which we then strung together to make caterpillars. At the Science table we tried to see how many heart candies we could stack on top of each other before they fell over. This was such a fun way to practice counting and writing our numbers. Outdoor AdventuresWe loved playing outside this week (even though it was so cold)! One of our favorite moments was when one of our high school teachers pretended she was the big bad wolf and cried, "Let me in! Or I'll huff and I'll puff and I'll blow your house down!" Then one preschooler shouted, "Not by the hair on my one chin on my own head!" ValentinesOn Thursday we delivered our valentines to all our preschool friends. Ms. Anne had us all sit in a circle and we got to each individually pass out our sweet notes to everyone's mail boxes. It was the highlight of our week! Candid MomentsTeacher Spotlights
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