Scrubbly Bubbly

Today we read the story The Scrubbly Bubbly Car Wash by Irene O"Garden.  The best part of this book is that it introduced the children to rhyming words.  Words that sound the same like top and mop, track and back are rhyming words.  A child's ability to rhyme plays a part in their ability to read, thus your child will be assessed on rhyming in fall, winter and spring.  During centers today the children cut out a car of their own and then finger painted it.  Lastly, they sprinkled it with glitter so it could be sparkling clean.

At one of our centers today the children listened to the story Forest Friends Go to School.  This story taught the children how to take care of books.  We will use clean gentle hands to turn the pages, and gently put our books away when we are finished with them.  Each child then took a book out of our classroom library.  We then went over the following concepts of print; where is the top of the book, the bottom, the front, the back, where do we begin reading, and how do we turn a page.  Please take some time to review these concepts with your child when you read to them.  To conclude the center we practiced putting the books away neatly on the shelf.  During snack we made a stop and go light out of graham crackers, frosting, and M&Ms.  The children were also introduced to our iPads today.