Friendly Frogs: It's in the Mail

Literature:

Book: Yoko’s Paper Cranes by Rosmary Wells
Book: A Letter for Amy by Ezra Jack Keats
Book: We Need Mail Carriers by Scholastic Books
Share: Bring the address of someone you love, so we can mail them a letter! (Sammy, I need your's still, so I can send these off! I keep forgetting to take it out of your backpack)

My favorite photo of the day:

Check out that concentration! I picked up 2 sets of these unit blocks at HobLob last week for $11 each! The best thing about unit blocks? Endless opportunity for imagination and creativity! The worst part? The risk of owies when someone's tower comes crashing down.

These blocks are not wood, they're made of reeeeally heavy duty fun foam! No more owies, and no crash, bang, boom if they are thrown by Corbin :)

Dramatic Play: Post Office provide packages, envelopes, mailboxes (doors cut from cardboard boxes) mail bags, scale, cash register, and bins for l

Sensory: Feely Bag-things that are sticky (tape, stickers, jelly, glue stick, gum)

Handwriting/Fine Motor: Tracing Heart stencils

Learning to use a stencil is a difficult task for a 4 year old to grasp. I'm proud of how patient they were with the process.

Fine Motor: Flag Stamps

I set up a letter writing center where the children could decorate packages and stuff envelopes with "letters", and provided sheets of flag stickers, so they could put stamps on their letters.

Art: Decorating Postcards

Math: Big, Medium, Small , 1, 2, 3
Sort packages by size, shape, color, etc in canvas bins

Language/Phonics: add to our list of “V” words (vulture, vase, violin, Velcro, vacuum, volcano, vacation)

Reading Comprehension:

"A Letter to Amy" by Ezra Jack Keats is a great little story about a boy who only invites one girl to his birthday party. He makes a special invitation for her, but a storm rolls in when he tries to mail it.

After reading the story to the children, I asked the following questions:

1) Why did Peter send a special letter just for Amy?

2) What did the letter say?

3) What was the weather like when Peter mailed the letter?

4) Did Amy get the letter?

Practical Life: How do we mail a letter?

We read "We Need Mail Carriers" and talked about how a letter gets from one place to another"

Music and Movement:
We just got a letter (blue’s clues)
Three Valentines