ABC, I Like Me!

This week we tested out some of our class jobs.

Bailee tried out Calendar Helper

And Montego was our Song Leader.

The girls had no problem following his lead for our song, "Monkey's and the Alligator"

Our theme this week was based on the book, "ABC, I Like Me".  

For our Balanced Literacy activities this week, we wrote our own "ABC, I Like Me" books.

In a shared writing experience, we came up with things we individually like.

Together, we "stretched" out the words to hear each individual sound . . . 

Then, we helped each other write the sounds and form our words.

Here's our final word bank: cakes, cars, snack, and zoo.

We used this word bank to write our own books.

Then, as an independent reading activity, the children read their finished books to the class.

 Still focusing on our names, we made a name graph.

Each child glued the letters of their name on our graph.

(Montego and Bailee love to help each other!)

 Then, we compared and contrasted our names.  The number of letters - least and most, who had the same letters, who had repeated letters, etc.

We played a fun guessing game, using clues about things we like, we had to guess
"Who" se name was under the owl's wings.

 We had fun guessing "who" the fun clues were about!

 The highlight of our week was our Chicka Chicka Boom Boom activities!

 We made our own Chicka Chicka trees with the letters of our names climbing up the tree. Art projects are a great practice of fine motor skills, as well as following directions.

We had a fun Balanced Literacy activity, where each child took turns placing their name within the text. Then, together, we chanted the words.

Thursday was our culminating event for the week: our Chicka Chicka Boom Boom Party!!

We had a yummy Chicka Chicka Tree snack

We each shared our "All About Me" posters.  

It was so fun to see everyone's pictures and learn new things about each other!

After reading some books and eating our snack on our fun beach towels, we watched a 

Chicka Chicka Boom Boom movie - WHICH WE LOVED!

Our party was awesome!