January 21, 2022

Half Day, Monday, January 24th

This Monday, January 24th will be a half day for all Henry Ford students. Dismissal for our class will be 11:40am at door #3.

Book Bags

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Blue book bags went home in children’s backpacks today. Please take some time this weekend to read the two stories with your child and play number bingo. We have been working on number recognition and counting this week, playing bingo together will help your child to recognize numbers and know the names of numbers.

This Week in Our Classroom

Nutrition

We had our last two nutrition lessons with Ms. Zahraa after winter break. We brainstormed ideas for exercises we could do inside with our families during cold winter days. Some of the ideas were:

• Jumping jacks
• Push ups
• Squats
• Dancing
• Jumping

Afterwards the children made two healthy snacks; Apple Grape “go go” cars and Healthy Celebration Pizza! Each child received a cook book to take home with recipes for simple and healthy snacks to make at home.

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Math

We have been focusing on number recognition and counting this week. Number recognition is when a child sees a number and knows it’s name. (Ex. a 2 is called “two.”) Counting is being able to tell how many objects there are while saying numbers in order. (Ex. “1,2,3,4,5. I see 5 things!” The children used counting mats to roll out the matching number of playdoh balls. We also played a game using number cards and pom poms. Each child pulled a number card out of an envelope, and placed that many pom poms on their plate. When their plate was full we counted how many pom poms they had all together.

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A Look Ahead…