Dr. Suess

From the Teachers: March 3, 2017 3’s/4’s Program This week in Prek 3/4 we learned about Dr. Seuss. We learned that he is an author, and that the author writes the books, we learned that he loved to make silly stories for young readers.  He uses lots of rhyming and make believe words in his writings.  We read The Cat in The Hat and made our own Thing 1 and Thing 2 craft.   We read One Fish Two Fish Red Fish Blue Fish and made our own handprint fish art.  We read Oh the Thinks we can Think and created our own drawing of the Thinks we can Think.  We read the Sneetches and made our own handprint sneetches with stars on their belly.  We also watched the video of Bartholomew and the Oobleck, then we made Oobleck and enjoyed playing with it.   This week in Bible Stories we read: Baby Jesus Jesus is Born Angels Tell the News Wise Men Give Gifts We celebrated Avanitha's 3rd birthday and Kunsh's 5th birthday on Wednesday. 2’s Program This week in the twos room we talked all about Dr. Seuss! On Monday we made our One Fish, Two Fish, Red Fish, Blue Fish handprint craft and we also read the story! On Tuesday we did a sorting and counting activity with goldfish (and got to eat what we counted!) and we also made Thing 1 and Thing 2 handprints. We read Go Dog, Go!  On Wednesday we made the Cat's hat with red and white strips of paper that spelled out our name. We also read Wacky Wednesday. On Thursday we began using scissors and cut red and white paper for our hat craft. We read The Foot Book. On Friday we painted paper plates to look like fishbowls then added goldfish and fruit loops (to be the gravel) in our fishbowls! (see picture to the right) The Bible story from Pray and Play Bible 2 Joseph, the Favorite Son.  Next Week’s Theme:  Weather Please also remember to return the student Enrollment Forms for next year! 2017 -2018 Student Enrollment Form: https://docs.google.com/document/d/15S6sdsUJ0-j6J53X2Anvpg6yRrogNSW2t1il8UsihVo/edit?usp=sharing
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PARENT RESOURCES Practicing Rhyming by Marie Rippel https://blog.allaboutlearningpress.com/teaching-rhyming-to-preschoolers/ Rhyming helps children notice the sounds within words. From an early age, children can recognize that bat rhymes with cat, and they become aware of the word part  – “at.” In fact, rhyming is one of the best predictors of how easily children will learn to read. That’s because good rhymers are better equipped to notice that rhyming words often have shared letter sequences, such as –all in tall, ball, and small, which gives them a considerable head start in learning to read. Most children enjoy hearing and participating in rhyming activities, and when they are exposed to rhyming, they usually pick it up naturally. But if your child isn’t good at rhyming yet, don’t worry! There are many things you can do to help. Read on! Preschoolers and the Three Stages of Rhyming Ability It’s helpful to know that preschoolers don’t just start off rhyming. In fact, they generally go through three stages. In the order of easiest to hardest, those stages are: Stage 1: Hearing rhyme (the child grows accustomed to hearing and repeating rhyme) Stage 2: Recognizing rhyme (the child can identify two words that rhyme) Stage 3: Producing rhyme (the child can think of a word that rhymes with another) Simple Ways to Help Your Preschooler Learn to Rhyme Read picture books aloud. This is by far the easiest way to teach rhyming to preschoolers. You’ll find lots of great books on these lists: Rhyming Picture Books and Poetry Books for Kids. Explore nursery rhymes. Nursery rhymes are conducive to reciting again and again. After your child knows the nursery rhymes, let him fill in the rhyming words. You’ll find some wonderful nursery rhyme collections here. Play hand-clapping games. Pat-a-Cake and Miss Mary Mack (see below) are perennial favorites. Sing rhyming action songs. Remember Five Little Monkeys Jumping on the Bed and I’m a Little Teapot? Practice this fun Clapping and Rhyming! CLICK HERE FOR HOW TO DO THE ACTIONS FOR Miss Mary Mack: https://youtu.be/f9NoUQcEfzE
FAITH-LIFE RESOURCES Psalms from the Bible – Christian sacred songs or poems Psalm 85: 7Show us your steadfast love, O Lord,     and grant us your salvation. 8 Let me hear what God the Lord will speak,     for he will speak peace to his people, to his saints;     but let them not turn back to folly. 9 Surely his salvation is near to those who fear him,     that glory may dwell in our land. 10 Steadfast love and faithfulness meet;     righteousness and peace kiss each other. 11 Faithfulness springs up from the ground,     and righteousness looks down from the sky. 12 Yes, the Lord will give what is good,     and our land will yield its increase. 13 Righteousness will go before him     and make his footsteps a way.