{Fitness+My Body}

 

This week we talked about our bodies and how they work. We started with bones! Here's few bone songs that are pretty catchy that we enjoyed:

 After feeling our bones (our elbows and a friend's spine), talking and reading about our skeletons and looking up a few x-ray pictures, we made our own bone pictures at art. It was a great opportunity to use scissors and critical thinking skills to build a skeleton on paper!

 After making our skeletons, we filled in a prompt that said, "My bones like to..." They really thought hard about what they wanted to write.

 

How adorable are these skeletons? I love them!

After learning about our skeletons, we talked some about parts of our bodies.  We talked about four major organs and used an ipad to research them. Every time we looked up one of them and I showed them the picture of the anatomically correct organ they shouted, "Awesome! Cool!" I love the enthusiasm!

Here's the pictures we looked up if your pea wants to see them again!

Then we labeled the these organs as a group!

 Later in the week we talked about muscles, our heart and fitness. We had a mini yoga class! Here's fish pose (bow pose).

 Bridge pose.

 This is something between candlestick and plow, haha!

They loved it so much, we may have to add yoga into our weekly routine!

 Here's a few of the favorite poses of the week:

After our yoga, we decided to use our bodies for literacy. We made the alphabet out of kids on Friday! They giggled the entire time we did this, it was so much fun.

 

 

 Here's the whole alphabet. Notice anything about Z? Yes, it's backwards! I have to go back in and see if I can transpose it, but it's still a precious alphabet.

 

In math we did several activities. We talked about the food we put into our bodies to keep us healthy. We practiced patterning with this fruit game.

 

 In circle time we made a GIANT graph of all the food groups. We passed out all of our plastic food and took turns putting them into the right catagory.

 

 These smarty pants got every single one right. While talking about foods we eat, Ms. Leslie suggested we start an Environmental print book. What a fantastic idea! Please save any food labels (or non food for that matter!) that are familiar and easy recognizable and send them to Pre-K. We will be working on adding them to a class book!

In our pretend play, we opened a grocery store. It was pretty much a health food store since we only only have one plastic cake. All the other items in the sugar category were borrowed! They loved using play money, scanning, ringing up totals and bagging the groceries.

 

 Just a couple of our journals of the week are below. This week's poem is in the middle.

 

We finished our Chicka Chicka tree from last week and got it all hung up and ready to be read with pointers.

 They love reading it, it's a hit.

That wraps up another week. Have a great 3 day weekend!