During the past 2 weeks we have been introduced to new toys and learning experiences in our classroom.
The first one is a question of the day. The children have been very interested in letters and letters in each others names, so our questions of the day have been ‘Do you have the letter ___ in your name?’ The children look at their name and see if the letter is in their name or not, they then place it in the yes or no column. We then talk about whose names have that letter and whose names do not have that letter and if there are more children in the yes column or the no column. See one of our charts in the picture below.
We added new hair salon toys to our house area. We have an old hair straightener, an old curling iron, and empty hair spray bottles to pretend to do hair with. We have empty nail polish bottles to pretend to paint nails. The children have really enjoyed pretending with these items.
Lastly, stuffed animals were added to our book area. These stuffed animals provide something for the children to read books with, it might be listening to reading or them reading to the stuffed animal. It started with the bear Corduroy after reading that book in class and has moved onto more animals, like a monkey, a bunny, dogs and a duck.
