All About Me: My Name

This week was all about our names!

We read the book "Chrysanthemum" and talked about how important, and special, our names are to us.

We practiced writing our names with all sorts of mediums.

A favorite was using our white boards!

 Using a white board is great practice for freestyle writing, where mistakes can be erased easily for lots of practice time!

We also created a "magic name"!

 First we traced our names carefully, and Miss Jessica wrote over the letters with glue.

 Then we sprinkled the "magical" powder over our names . . .

 And, tah-dah!  Our magic name!

 We played with name puzzles

We learned the first letter of our name is capitalized, and the rest are lower case.  We worked on the sequence of the letters in our name, and used our critical thinking skills to find the right fit.

 We also played a name sorting game with our own name . . .

 And with our friends' names!

This task teaches focus on similarities and differences, as well as sorting skills (getting us ready for our math unit on patterns).

One of our favorite games of the week was Name Concentration.

The children had to find all the letters in their names using their memory skills, while enforcing letter recognition of the letters in their own name, as well as their classmates' names.

We ended the week with a painting project. 

Each child took a turn feeling an invisible name (made of dried glue) and 

guessing whose name it could be. 

 Once we all found our names, 

we used watercolors to reveal the texturized names.

We did our final review of shapes.  We all know our shapes, but learning to draw a sharp corner and appropriately proportioned shape is a whole different story!

We had so much fun at play time this week!

Dress-Up time!

A game of memory

And here we are singing one of our favorite songs: "Throw the Bean Bag"!