February / Week 3 / Families & Valentines Day

2/13 - 2/17

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- MONDAY -
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Morning Activities & Outside Time:
- What's the Weather?? (discuss what's happening with the weather outside)
- Make Valentines for Family and Friends
- Family Finger Puppets
- Shape Bingo

Afternoon Activities:
- Blocks
- Imaginative Play
- Image Posters
- Music & Movement
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- TUESDAY -
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Morning Activities & Outside Time:
- Friendly Face Place Matt
- Name Bingo
- Photo Albums (look through and discuss who is who)
- Valentine Cookies for Friends (and for us too :)

Afternoon Activities:
- Blocks
- Imaginative Play
- Image Posters
- Music & Movement
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- WEDNESDAY -
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Morning Activities: Little Gym!
- Deliver Valentine cookies with remaining time after gym

Afternoon Activities:
- Blocks
- Imaginative Play
- Image Posters
- Music & Movement
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- THURSDAY -
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Morning Activities: Soccer!
- Revisit Mon/Tues activities with remaining time after soccer

Afternoon Activities:
- Blocks
- Imaginative Play
- Image Posters
- Music & Movement
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- ART FRIDAY! -
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Morning Activities & Outside Time:
- Family Tree (draw large tree together on butcher paper, decorate with cutout leaves and photos of immediate family)
- Family Collage (photo cutouts of family, Mae's house, animals, objects, stickers, etc - create a busy scene together)

Afternoon Activities:
- Blocks
- Imaginative Play
- Image Posters
- Music & Movement
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- END OF THE WEEK THOUGHTS & OBSERVATIONS -
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We had a great Valentine's week! She LOVED making handprints for our Valentines, especially the part where she got to squish the paint in her hands ;) We worked on family member names and just words in general. She's really getting better with pronouncing certain words and more interested in trying to repeat things. Banana, raisin, hand and Lola were the words of the week! The way she says banana is too stinking cute! She's also getting really good at identifying shapes. She doesn't really say the words yet, but when I say "where's the star?" for instance, she almost always gets them right. You can really see things starting to click and her being more and more interested in learning new things.