HESS American Pre School Banana Class

2014年12月1日星期一

Last week of November

November has officially come to an end. We end the month with a special celebration of thanksgiving! We got to eat turkey. It was a delicious treat.

We finished our theme of the senses. We now learned well that eyes see, ears hear, mouths taste, nose smells, and hands and feet touch. We did many experiments to test our senses.

We also did really fun projects to learn about thanksgiving. Such as making a finger print turkey and making a turkey hat!

In phonics class, we have gotten all the way to letter Q. We constantly practice our writing skills of both the big and small letters. We have also been working to increase our vocabulary with worksheets and using real life objects to make the letter sound to the alphabet letters we know.

2014年11月20日星期四

Nov 17-21

We have started on our theme for the second two weeks of November! We are learning about the 5 senses. For this unit, Teacher Chelsie has incorporated a lot of science projects to test our senses. For example, she has brought in things that smell great to things that are really stinky. We have done blind listening tests to sense of sound.

We have also been l learning about the upcoming holiday Thanksgiving. We have learned the history of pilgrims, Indians and all the yummy food we eat for thanksgiving!!

2014年11月12日星期三

Nov 10-14

We are now full swing into November and the theme of fall. The kids have been learning words that talk about fall and plants, such as: jacket, turkey, branch, trunk, leaf, roots, and hat.

We have learned about how a plant grows and the things it needs to live (water, air, and sun). We have done very well learning the vocabulary. The kids are able to identify all the vocabulary flash cards without any problems. We have also worked on our skills at cutting and pasting, to make sure these are skills we can do without the teacher's help.

For phonics, we have worked on my M,N, and O. Not only is it important to learn new vocabulary, but also how to trace the letters. The kids are very proficient in their pronunciation of the letters and they know how to correctly say many words. Primaryily, I want them to learn how to write. We have done many activities to practice their writing.

2014年11月3日星期一

Welcome November

October was a blast Banana class!

October ended with a great and spooky celebration. Banana class celebrated the final week with many themed activities, such as: ghost in the graveyard snacks and Frankenstein and witch hat painting. We practiced very diligently to memorize a speech to give at the Halloween party. Our class song was, H A double L O W double E N Spells Halloween. We also learned the Monster Mash to sing with the other classes as well.

We also worked hard on our themes of family members and rooms of the house. The kids can easily talk about people in their family and describe them. They are also able to identify objects that are found in specific rooms of the house.

Yummy ghost in the graveyard snack!

In phonics, we have made it about half way through the alphabet! We continue to expand our vocabulary with each letter. It's also been important to correctly identify upper and lower cases of each letter. The kids are getting very good at writing letters!

Now it's a new month, November! Time for new themes, holidays, and Fall fun :)

2014年10月21日星期二

October 20-24

This week we have continued on our theme of learning rooms of the house and the objects that we find in the house. So far the kids have learned and can now easily identify bed, couch, lamp, toilet, bathtub, table, and chair. We have incorporate the topic of family with the household rooms units too!

We have continued to learn about halloween and trick or treating! The kids now know their dance for the class song, Monster Mash.

For phonics, we are reviewing all the letters we have learned from A-L. We are working not only to recognize the letter, but to learn to write it as well. The kids are learning both big and small versions of all the letters. We also play lots of games with flash cards to get the kids to recognize objects associate with each letter sound with as much speed as possible! Plus, they really love it :)

2014年10月15日星期三

October

In the month of October, we have worked on two class themes so far. The first theme was all about family. We learned the members of our family, such as: mother, father, son, daughter, sister, grandma...and many more. We created a family tree to show how many people were in our family.

We also did matching games to recognize family members with speed.

Our second theme has been about the house. We have been learning rooms in the house and objects that can be found in the rooms. To incorporate the first theme, we play games to guess what family members are in what rooms. The kids are getting really good at telling the rooms of the house apart.

For phonetics we have learned about letters H through L. It has been important to have the kids work on writing skills. They can clearly identify big letters versus small letters. We do a lot of sorting activities to show how well we know the difference between big and small alphabet letters. To practice our letter sounds, the kids love to use flash cards! Each card has a picture and the kids yell out the beginning letter sound as quickly as they can. The competition is so fun for the kids :D

As Halloween gets closer, the kids are getting ready for their performance!!! They are very excited.