Playground Time with our Friends

Spreading Germs-Hand Washing

We started our unit on Health this week! Our first four vocabulary words are clean, dirty, scrub, and rinse. Today we talked a lot about germs and how we can avoid spreading them. To demonstrate how easily germs can be spread we did a little experiment. Our "Germ Carrier" was covered in "germs" (glitter) and was asked to shake hands with his friends to say hello. Afterwards we looked at our hands to see if any of the germs spread...and guess what? They did!  Then we practiced scrubbing and rinsing our hands so that they were germ free!

Later we practiced our handwriting skills as we wrote scrub & rinse. We then decorated a set of hands with a lot of germs! This activity reinforced the importance of hand washing and understanding of germs. Fine motor control, handwriting, following directions, and social cues where also reinforced. 

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Heroes-Celebrating American Heroes on a Day of Remembrance

Today was our third day of school! We continued our theme as we did on the first and second day of school. Today we found things that were "third". The third letter in the alphabet is "c", the third number is "3" and so on. We have had a lot of fun working with this and can't wait to see what the fourth day will bring!

Today was also a day of Remembrance for our country. We worked on following directions, fine motor control, crayon grip, color identification, and shapes while we paid tribute to American Heroes. We talked about what it means to help people and all about the importance of our communities. We made Medals and colored the flag.

Too Much Glue

We are already back in the swing of things and we love it. To follow up yesterday's theme of "First" we talked about "Second". On our second day of school we talked about the letter b, the number 2, and even Pennsylvania.

Later on we read a fun book about what happens if we use too much glue. While reading Too Much Glue we worked on building story listening skills, as well as making basic prediction. Afterwards, we made ourselves the matching glue suit that the main character makes himself in the book! This activity helped build fine motor control, following directions, and making literary connections.