This week in preschool we learned all about me and my other preschool friends. We even learned about Ms. Marianne! Each of us had a special day this week where we brought in our All About Me information sheets and shared what makes us special. I even brought in my favorite food as snack on my day. One friend brought cheese pizza! YummmmAs we shared our special characteristics and favorite things, we graphed and charted each one. We now have a whole wall in our room that tells all about our preschool friends- from their favorite thing to do, their favorite book and their special things all the way to who is in their family and what their birthday is. I learned that we are all special and unique.
We read two great books called Chrysanthemum, by Kevin Henkes, and Catalina Magdalena Hoopensteiner Wallendiner Hogan Logan Bogan Was Her Name, by to talk more about our names. I loved these books! They showed me that my name is special and I should be proud of it. We did lots of activities with our names this week- we traced them in glue and sprinkled salt over the glue so that we could use our touch sense to learn the letters in our names. Ms. Marianne helped me to make a book that has one page for each letter of my name that has a picture of a thing starting with that letter. I can read it to you, if you ask me to! I really enjoy tracing my laminated name card that I brought home this week, and putting my name puzzle together too! The more I practice, the better I'll get a recognizing and writing my name. 
My favorite story and activity from this week was Chicka Chicka, Boom Boom! By Bill Martin Jr. and John Archambault. All of the letters were trying to get into the coconut tree, but it didn't work out very well! Here is a video that we can watch together where the book is animated and put to music. We listened to it a lot while we worked this week, and I just kept asking to hear it more!http://www.schooltube.com/
Our Letter of the Week was Mm this week. We made macaroni Mm's and Mouse Puppets who eat /m/ words and we practiced writing Mm's all week. My favorite Mm activity was M & M Graphing. It was so cool to get my own little bag of candies to sort and graph. Ask me which color I had the most of. I even had some colors that had the same number of candies in my bag. The best part was eating them when we were done!Next week, we are beginning our Body Unit to continue our understanding of how special we are. I can't wait!
Love,
Your Child
and
Ms. Marianne
