T for choo choo TRAIN

TUESDAY

We started with circle time and they've learned all the songs & the pledge so well. We then did name recognition. I wrote each of their names on an envelope & in each envelope were the letters of their name. I held each envelope up and they were all pretty good at recognizing their names. They had to spell their names with the letters using their name on the envelope as a a guide. Then we started our letter of the week "T". I started with showing them how to make T's with our hands by putting them together like how the refs signal a techinal foul in basketball lol. Then I read them a book, "FREIGHT TRAIN" the book also helped them with their colors, each train cart was a different color. Then it was snack time. They love these alphabet cookies that I get from WinCo...a couple of them were lucky enough to find T's in their pile of cookies :) Then they made their trains that they brought home. They're really getting the hang of gluing things together on their own. Then we played the choo choo train game. They each got 2 strips of different color construction paper which were their train tickets. I was the train and I'd call out, "All those with (color) tickets. ALL ABOARD!" then we made a human train with me leading them in a circle around the living room. They loved this game.....then we changed it up a little and I'd say, "It's Kaiona's train!" and they'd all form a line behind Kaiona and go around the living room following her. They each got a turn and looooooved it. ChuggaChuggaChuggaChugga Choooo Choooooo!!!!!!!

THURSDAY

After circle time, we started again with name recognition. We did the envelope exercise we did on Tues. learning to put the letters of their names in order. Then we played "Who Stole The Cookie" I made brown construction paper cookies, one for each of them, with their names on it.....I chose a name from the bowl and we'd sing  "who stole the cookie from the cookie jar.....(Kuulei) stole the cookie from the cookie jar" and so on and so on.....each time a child would pick a cookie from the jar, theyd hold it up for everyone to see so that child who's name was on the cookie would recognize it...then we'd sing the song ( i hope that made sense lol) We read the train book again (COLORS) then had snack. After snack they did their #2 art where they glued 2 eyes, pom poms, feathers & smiley stickers on a #2. Then we played a spin the bottle game. i handed out 2 capital Ts, lower case ts, triangles & #2 written on paper. someone would spin the bottle, whoever it landed on would show their piece of paper & whoever had the matching one would spin next ( ok i hope i'm making sense lol) Then they wanted to play the choo choo train game AGAIN so i got a good workout this week. lol

Anyways, all in all it was a good week, the kids were well behaved and had fun learning :)