Videos of our Learning

Thanks to our TCIS community and the help collecting bottles, I was able to make a fun water wall for the kids to explore during our water days. The kids had a good time pouring the water and watching it flow from one bottle to another. It was fun for me to watch them explore.

One of the fun items I brought back with me from America was water beads. They soak up water and become like jelly balls. They are used for flower vases but I thought they would make an awesome sensory experience and the kids love them. Watch Ephraim's pouring and scooping skills. What great hand eye coordination!

The girls used dot painters to paint dots on the letters of our first names. Watch their fine motor skills and the polite language they use to talk to each other. Shelby Grace even shows off her stacking skills.

The girls are enjoying reading books.

Learning new skills

The "older" kids in the ELC this year are actually on the young side so we are working on learning many new skills. For a couple of them, it may be the first time experiencing some of the art projects. Check out some of the things we have been learning.

We've enjoyed typing on the computer. We use different fonts and different colors.

Learning how to use glue

Painting dots- great fine motor control!

Peeling off the backing of foam stickers. Watch our fingers work!

More and more stickers to work on our finger strength

Guess you can say our fingers are really getting a work out!

A New Year has Begun!

Welcome back to the ELC!
Look at us! We're growing!

We're playing and investigating.

We are exploring new skills and textures.

We are dressing up

and pretending.

Come along with us this year as we learn through play! Looking forward to a great year!

Dot the Letter

One of our center activities this week was to Dot the Letter B (since we were learning about bears.) This was the first time that we had done something like this and the kids LOVED it!

The kids worked on this for a long time. Some created patterns on their letters and used a variety of colors.

My favorite part of the activity was when the kids took charge of their own learning and asked for more letters. They first asked for "G" for Goldilocks and then the fun began. I didn't have them all made up so I was sitting at the computer making the activity pages as fast as I could. By the end of the morning, the kids had asked for about 10 different letters. For some of the kids, they were not able to recognize the letters that they were asking for so we had a lot of learning opportunities. My favorite was when they asked for the letter "Q"!!! Go figure! It was so fun to see them so excited about learning the letters in such a fun way.

Can you see the variety of letters on the table? Learning can be messy sometimes :). That's just the way Mrs. Jennifer likes it :).

Ki Bi Bo

When we were outside playing the kids wanted to play hide and seek. They couldn't decide who was going to be it so they had the wonderful idea to play Ki, Bi, Bo (paper, rock, scissors) to make the decision for them. I love how they decided on their own, a very fair way to make a decision. What a great thinkers!

Goldilocks and the Three Bears centers

Goldilocks and the three bears have invaded the ELC. We had a wonderful week learning this story. Here are some of our centers for the week.

Sara sorts bears by color.
We can act out the story on the white board. We can tell the story all by ourselves.

The boys play a board game where they have to roll the dice, count spaces and collect food for their bears picnic basket.

Bear Graphing

That's right! We are graphing! This was our first graphing experience this year and we did very well. Ms. Jennifer gave us bags of gummy bears and we had to sort the bears by colors on our graph. Most of us could sort the colors all by ourselves and even place them into the boxes on the graph.

We talke about what color bears we had and then we learned the words 'most' and 'least'.

Here Sara is pointing to her gummy bears that she has the MOST of.

Lonne is pointing to the bear color that he has the LEAST of.

After we sorted our bears, we got to eat them one by one but only as we colored a box on our graph. The kids did awesome transferring their concrete graphs to an abstract one on their paper. Sophia and Yong Suk colored their whole graph by themselves and it was exactly like their bear graph.

Shelby Grace and Frances were working on matching the colors of the bears together. We were not quite ready for the graph but we did an excellent job matching the colors.