Week of October 5-9, 2009
October 10, 2009
This week began with honoring St. Faustina with the Living Rosary. On Wednesday, Feast of Our Lady of the Rosary, I told the children the story of the Battle of Lepanto and we made rosaries from Trix cereal (hope they haven’t eaten the cereal off!). I showed them pictures of each of the mysteries of the rosary. We have read the Bible stories of the Creation, Garden of Eden, and Cain and Abel.
We have been learning the names of the continents and this week children worked together to assemble a big foam puzzle of the world map. They really had fun with that.
I have been working on initial consonant sounds with them. Our letter of the week was d (for DeeDee Deer).
In math, we did making an AB color pattern with the linking cubes. We also used the pattern blocks to cover designs and went over the names of the shapes: octagon, rhombus, parallelogram, square, triangle, and trapezoid.
It was fire safety week; we went over some safety rules and each of the children practiced “stop, drop, and roll.” I read them a book called “Germs Make Me Sick” and we reviewed handwashing practices. The children wash hands before and after eating, when coming in from outside and also use hand sanitizer. We have had minimal absences.
There was extra activity going on this week with bake sale, picture taking, and pep rally. That combined with the change in temperature and rain seemed to have the children a bit keyed up. Not all of the children went to the pep rally on Friday; I had several children sleeping.
As far as bringing work home, I try to make sure that each child does the activities for the week. For the children, the finished product isn’t always what is important to them; it is the process of doing the work. We have varying degrees of fine motor control in the class: some are adept with coloring and cutting, others not. We will continue to work on those skills.
Three weeks until our All Saints Day party! Be thinking of those costumes.
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