Who's in My Mirror?

Our busy authors added another class book to the library this week! We used our self portraits from our All About Me unit, painted on foil while looking in a hand mirror. (Most of the work on these pages was done a week or two ago, but we needed to get a few pages finished up this week since we've had some friends absent lately.) At circle time, we read a great book called Looking Like Me by Walter Dean Myers that was about all the different ways to look at ourselves- artist, dancer, son/daughter, friend, student, ball player, etc. We thought about what we saw when we looked in the mirror, and Ms. Heather wrote our thoughts down.  Here are the pages in our book:

The Letter Hh

We spent some time learning about the letter Hh this past week. The sound is a tricky one, so we started pretending to climb the ladder the letter reminds us of-> up, up, up, faster and faster. Finally, we all stop, and listen very carefully for the the sound /h/h/h/h/. Hear it?

At one center, we worked to read Hh, build Hh out of straight and curved paper pieces, and write Hh using a proper pencil grip and correct formation. We talked about homes and houses, and built block and paper houses that anyone would be proud to call home. Our paper houses were all put into a neighborhood, and are hanging in our room. Other Hh fun included hammering! We each had a piece of bubble wrap with letters and numbers written on it, and used our hammer to pop each one as Ms. Heather called it out. If the the hammer didn't work, we used our hands. If that was hard we could hop on it! 

 

Other fun activities this week included shaving cream -great for getting very clean hands and trays-, circle art and dry erase writing practice:

 

 

The Adventures of Me and Mini Me

We've created our first class book! Last week we created our Mini Me art projects (which are hanging in the hall and will come home soon). We also imagined how much fun it might be if our creations were able to play with us. Each child drew a picture of where they might go or what they might do together. A photo was added, as well as a dictated sentence. These are all compiled in a class book for everyone to enjoy all year!

Below is a picture of each page. If you click on a picture, it should open in a larger window and you can use the arrow keys to see each page up close.