As I started to talk about in last week’s newsletter, the Green Room friends are very excited about the English alphabet. So that you are familiar with my technique of teaching the alphabet to 3-year-olds, I want to explain that at this age, I focus on teaching the recognition of capital letters, along with the sound that each letter makes. Once a student can properly identify all of the capital letters, and has a general understanding of letter sounds, then I begin introducing lowercase letters. Of course our students are still exposed to lowercase letters, especially in books, but our focus in the Green Room for now is on the capital letters.
Since our Green Room friends love to spell their names, I made everyone a large name tag which they got to tape up wherever they wanted!
With each letter provocation we did, friends were encouraged to bring letters up to their name, and find the match! Here we see friends doing just that!
Excavating Letters
Our letters were hiding under flour! Students used brushes to “excavate” the letters. I love how excited they got when they found letters that are used in their name! Sensory exploration is an important part of development at this age. It made me happy that all of our Green Room friends embraced touching the flour!
Letters ROCK!
Students were provided with letter cards, cork letters, and rocks to explore. We incorporated math into this activity as well, counting how many rocks it took to cover each letter. This activity also honed our fine motor skills, as we used tweezers to pick up the rocks!
Did you see the video of our “Literacy-Lovie” parade on Wednesday? (It was posted in the Facebook group by Morah Gitty). We’re getting very familiar with the sound that each letter makes with activities like this one!
On Thursday we put out magnifying glasses to further explore our letters.
Do you remember the first time you looked through a magnifying glass? It was so cool to watch our friends explore different ways to use the magnifying glasses!
As of press time, we hadn't yet dug through our Jello mold to find our favorite letters, so please keep an eye on the Facebook page to see photos of that!
These temperatures in the 80's feels like fall for us! We've loved being able to spend more time outside now that it's getting "cooler."
It has been a busy and FUN week in the Green Room! We're excited to continue exploring the alphabet, playing, and learning together! Shabbat Shalom!
-Morah Deena and Morah Gitty
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