Name Placemats

To compliment our weekly letter work, students worked on name placemats this week. Each student's placemat contains images of objects that start with the same letter as their name. 

In addition to strengthening fine motor skills by colouring each image, students were encouraged to use their oral communication skills to identify the pictures on their individual placemats. 

For some of the students, we used the images on each placemat to provoke expansion of speech. 

For example: We may ask the question "what do you see?". Students would typically answer with single word answers "robot". We encouraged students to expand their responses to "I see a robot" or "This is a robot".

We can't wait to start using our individualized placemats for snack and lunch time. 

Upcoming Reminders:

Monday October 21st- Picture Day

Tuesday October 22nd- Swimming

Letter P

Every week, we explore a letter. We learn how to print the letter, how to make the letter's sound, and explore words that start with that letter. 

This week, we explored the letter P. 

We began by learning about the letter P during our morning circle routine. Using songs by Sesame Street, ABC Mouse, and Super Simple Songs, we learned all about the letter P. 

We then learned how to print uppercase P on the large whiteboard. Each student then had the opportunity to practice tracing and printing the letter P and identifying and colouring pictures of objects that start with P.  

 

 We then were asked the next day to practice tracing and printing the letter P and identifying objects that begin with P, building upon our knowledge learned the previous day. 

We used our knowledge of the letter P to create a class poster for our alphabet wall. 

Finally, we created a new character for our alphabet scrapbook. "P is for Pig"

Upcoming Reminders:

-Our first therapy swim session will be Tuesday October 8th. Please remember to send your child prepared with their swim gear on Tuesday. 

-Friday October 11th: No School-Professional Development Day

-Monday October 14th: No School-Thanksgiving Holidy