It was all about the letter Cc this week- from eating carrots for snack time to take Care of our bodies to making Counting Caterpillars to practice my counting skills.
On Tuesday, we finished our unit on our bodies by talking all about how to care for them. We learned how things like washing our hands, exercising, eating healthily and resting can all help keep our bodies strong. We sang the song "To Keep Our Bodies Healthy and Strong" (to the tune of "So Early in the Morning- see here for the tune: http://www.bing.com/videos/search?q=this+is+the+way+we...+song&FORM=VIRE3#view=detail&mid=C80A2F233FF08852825EC80A2F233FF08852825E)
We made headbands to wear while we practiced our exercises (so fun!) and read our take home books about keeping our bodies healthy and strong.
We read Eric Carle's The Very Hungry Caterpillar and created a story board so that I could sequence and then tell the story to my family. Following the story's theme, we talked about the life cycle of a butterfly. It starts as a tiny egg that a caterpillar hatches from. She eats and eats until she's ready to build a cocoon for herself. (A cocoon is also called a pupa or a chrysalis, which we all loved telling Ms. Marianne over and over!) While the caterpillar is inside her cocoon home, she is changing into a beautiful butterfly! Then the butterfly goes and lays more eggs, and the cycle starts again. We made an all-in-one life craft that I can use to act out the life cycle of a butterfly for you. Ask me to tell you about how butterflies have symmetrical bodies, just like me! I worked hard to color my butterfly's body just right to show this on my craft. :) We also made 'Caterpillar Cabobs' out of grapes~ yum! Each week, we focus on a different color and we spend time searching for it in our surroundings. To help us with this, we made Color Goggles- painted in all the bright colors we love- to put up to our eyes and search with. How much fun we had with them once they were dry!
Our last activity of the week was to make Counting Caterpillars. They were 11 body pieces long and matched the caterpillar from our special book, The Very Hungry Caterpillar. We counted out all the paper plates we'd need and stamped polka dots on each piece, from one to ten. After the red face piece, each piece was placed in order (by me!) and Ms. Marianne wrote the digit and name of each number that I had stamped so that I can see all three parts of a number (digit, word & correspondence of counting individual items to make the whole number) and so I could practice at home. I'm so proud of my caterpillar!
Love,
Your Child
and
Ms. Marianne
