At our rug center we used our puppets and our LEGOS again. There was quite a bit of cooperative building going on--and a lot of dramatic play! At Mrs. Hennessy's center we made our February calendars. It was a little bit messy, but we did some good work. (Look for calendars in backpacks today!) At Miss Kathleen's center we listened to a book on the computer (See below for more information on that.) and then we did some letter stamping. Each of us had to find the letter our name starts with--some of us found all of our letters!
We went out on the playground and had some fun with our friends, then washed up and had snack. We enjoyed lining our animal crackers up as if they were in a parade!
***Computer books: Scholastic books has a new feature called eStoria which features ebooks for kids. I downloaded it last month and tried it out over Christmas break. There are several different ways to use the books, including little games and puzzles embedded in the story a la LeapPad. I wanted to gauge the kids response to the program before I sent home our next book order. We listened to the story, Clifford's Good Deeds, read by Clifford's owner, Emily Elizabeth. The children really seemed to enjoy hearing a book read in a different way than we usually do it. If any of you have used any of the eStoria books at home, I'd be interested in your opinion of them.
