Language Group Week of April 4th - Miss randi and Miss Elizabeth

Rainforest Theme has begun!

This week in language group, I showed the children a book I put together about the rain forest.  It talked about the different layers and had three animals under each layer.  We looked at the pictures and talked about each page (layer and animals).

For our activity, I printed pictures of rain forest animals and cut them in half to make puzzles.  Each child picked a piece and sat down.  A child was then called and asked to find the other child with the the other half to their animal.  The two children put the puzzle together and named the animal!

Miss Diane

March 11-18- Language Group - Miss Randi and Miss Elizabeth

We have started Community Helpers!

Our first activity was being a detective, looking at clues

figuring out who the community helper is.

I made Case Files that had clues in them to each Community helper.  We looked at each clue and made guesses along the way!

We labeled each picture we turned over and talked about what the item was used for!

Miss Diane

Week of January 25th - Language Group - Miss Randi and Miss Elizabeth

This week in Language Group we read the book

"If You Give a Moose a Muffin"  by Laura Numeroff.

 

For our activity, I made muffins with picture associations on them.  I placed the muffin bottoms on the floor in a row, then each child was given a muffin top and asked, "What does it go with?"

 

 

 

Some of the associations included:

shoes/socks, candles/birthday cake, paints/paintbrush, dog/bone

baseball/bat, train tracks/train

 

After completing a few, we would count how many muffins we made for the moose to eat!

 

Miss Diane



Week of January 18th - Language Group - Miss Randi and Miss Elizabeth

This week in Language Group, we played a game based on Laura Numeroff's book

"If You Give a Dog a Donut."

 

 

I made a game board based on the various vocabulary in the book.

 

 

We chose which dog we wanted to use to be our game piece.  The children had to describe the dog they wanted.  For example, the most common choice was, "The one with black ears."  We also talked about the size of their ears.

 

Each child had a turn moving the dog from space to space and then had to answer a question.  Some questions included:

Do you like to dance?

Do you like orange juice or apple juice?

What is a baseball for?

 

Once they answered a question, they chose a donut (block) and stacked it.  We counted the donuts and hoped they wouldn't fall!

 

 

Miss Diane

 

 

 

 

 

Summer Fun!

We have posted activities for you to enjoy with your child through the summer months!  Check out the calendar of activities!  One for language and one for articulation!
Have a wonderful summer vacation!

Puppet Fun!

Check out our vacation activities!  The children just saw Pumpernickel Puppets and loved it!  We put together some links to make puppets at home!

Check it out!

Miss Linda's suggestion for cooking with Eric Carle

LADYBUG MUFFINS

Cooking with Eric Carle

For a fun cooking lesson, try making Ladybug Muffins after reading Eric Carle’s “The Grouchy Ladybug”!    Simply take an English muffin, sliced it in half, and toast it.   While the muffin is toasting, put a scoop of creamed cheese in a bowl, add yellow and red food coloring, and mix it together until it is orange.    Then spread it on the cooled muffins, and added raisins for spots.  You could also use chocolate chips!

While cooking, you can focus on the following language concepts with your child:

• Half/whole
• Hot/warm
• Cold/cool
• Colors (red, yellow, orange)
• Actions “spread” and “mix”
• Counting with one-to-one correspondence (raisins)
• Mixing red and yellow creates orange
• Responding to “What’s missing?” (show a muffin with orange creamed cheese but no raisins/spots)