Continuing our “All About My Name” week by sorting out letters in our name! We then extended our learning by writing names freely around the sticker names. Friends are working on letter recognition, following multi-step directions independently, fine motor skills, & more. #1LISD

A small snippet of our morning greeting time. This sets the tone for a day of cooperation, focus, attention & connection. Because children choose their greeting, greeting rituals also foster success, empowerment & structured autonomy! #1LISD

Family week called for making houses. Sound on for this one! Friends are working on pre-reading & literacy skills, building expressive language by requesting and labeling items, following multi-step directions, & more. #1LISD

Rounding out our family theme by creating houses and using figured to represent all the members in our family! #1LISD

Kicking off Pets week by helping keep our pets healthy via veterinarian checkup. Friends filled out a health check list and then found/ used vet tools to help their per feel better again. #1LISD

Sorting “pet fish” by color & then using one to one correspondence to count the # of fish in each color category. Friends compared and contrasted numbers of fish using words like “more, less, most, & few”. #1LISD

Pets week brought dice rolling and dog spot drawing to our ELE class! Sound on to hear some big counting skills building and wiggly bodies engaged in their learning. So proud of our little learners! #1LISD

“What is wind and how can we see it in our natural environment?”. Friends created wind catchers and then went outside to investigate! #1LISD

Taking our pets theme around the campus by “find lost pets”! Matching is a precursor to learning how to classify items, identify relationships between them, & identify properties of objects that are the same. #1LISD

Literacy & Phonological Awareness circle time brought Letter B writing. Letter identification, forming sounds, writing the letter, and more. Look at our friends rock writing the letter B! #1LISD

Pet week Cooking Thursday was one for the books. Friends created fish aquariums! #1LISD

Guided Drawing this week meant creating pictures of our pets/ animals we would like to have as a pet. One of our ELE friends drew her cat, Abigail! #1LISD

Creating AB patterns on our pet pictures! Patterns help children make predictions & begin to understand what comes next. They also help children learn how to make logical connections and use reasoning skills. #1LISD

Finishing Pet week with a STEAM centered activity to create homes for our animal. Building fine motor skills by sticking marshmallows on toothpicks, developing strategies & problem solving, experimenting with cause & effect, and more. #1LISD

ELE is rounding out the essential unit of study: My Friends and Family. Kicking off the week with friendship bracelets! Working as a team to sort beads by color & using one to one correspondence to count # of beads and then create friendship bracelets together! #1LISD

Working on how to be a team player and take turns by putting together puzzles! #1LISD

Kicking off pumpkins week with shape identification around the classroom! Friends went on a “hunt through the pumpkin patch” in our classroom to find pumpkin shapes to match. #1LISD

Science investigation but make it filled with pumpkin exploration! We carved open a pumpkin & explored its attributes using our five senses. Friends came up with discoveries of: “bumpy”, “slimy”, “stringy”, and more! #1LISD

BIG THANK YOU to the Cedar Park Fire Department for coming to teach our Early Childhood friends about fire safety and all the exciting things that are part of their job! #1LISD

Science circle time brought on a color changing experiment! Look at the excitement In our little’s eyes🤗 #1LISD