PreK-2: Gina Stabile

Last week, we learned all about the sense of smell. We had a smell test. The children were given five cups filled with various ingredients you would use to bake or cook with. They had to make predictions about what they think each smell was. Once, they made the predictions they would smell the items to see if they were correct. The ingredients they smelled were: onion powder, cinnamon, nutmeg,vanilla and basil. The children really enjoyed smelling these ingredients and trying to guess what they were. Below are some pictures of them smelling the ingredients. 

 

This week, we will be focusing on the sense of touch. We will learn that we use our hands and fingers to touch things. We will go on a touch scavenger hunt in our classroom. We will look for things that are hard, soft, smooth, rough, etc. We will also be learning new vocabulary this week as well. The new words we will be learning are: dry, feel, fingers, rough, skin, smooth, soft, touch and wet.

In math, we will continue to build our courting skills. We will practice counting to 5 with understanding, as well as creating and identifying groups containing five items. 

We will also be reading some books to help us learn about the sense of touch. The books we will be reading are: 

Press Here by Herve Tullet 

Touching by Helen Frost 


Hands Can by Cheryl Hudson 


Home Extensions 
Have you and your child go on a Fall Brown Bag Scavenger Hunt. Have you and your child find items of various textures at home or natural objects collected from outside, related to fall, that are clean and safe for your child to handle such as pinecones, acorns or leaves. Have a discussion with your child why certain items might be safe or not safe. Have your child put them in a brown bag for your child to bring to school to show their peers. 

Have your child continue to write their first name if they have mastered it have them begin to write their last name. 

Play a board game with your child that requires players to count spaces as they move. 

Compare res amounts of various items. For example, ask your child whether there are more forks or knives on the table or figure out whose name has more letters. Write numerals for each amount. 

Your child will be given an optional packet every Friday that consists of tracing, writing and coloring the numbers, letters and shapes. This packet is optional if you chose to do this packet with your child it is due the following Friday. They have a week to complete it but remember it is an OPTIONAL packet.