Winter
It is hard to believe that January has already come and gone! We have had so much fun in the class this month learning all about winter! In the table toys/math center we explored shapes and patterns. The friend matched shapes and created winter pictures/animals using various shapes. The friends also created their own AB or ABB patterns to create a snowman. We have been really busy in the literacy center this month! The friends used snowmen to match upper and lower case letters, used penguins to match letters to the initial sound in a word, identified rhyming words, and were introduced to syllables in words and learned to clap their hands to identify how many syllables were in a word! The blocks and dramatic play center were very popular this month! Our dramatic play center was transformed into an ice skating rink and coffee shop. The friends engaged in various roles as customer, employee, barista, figure skater, and more. We had so much fun in this center, that we forgo