Post Office Field Trip!

This week we were able to go on a super fun field trip to the post office. We learned a lot about how the post office receives and sorts the mail daily and how the mail gets delivered. I had no idea that they have to memorize EVERY address and know exactly where it goes! Pretty crazy! I also had no idea on the amount of sorting that goes on behind those walls, it still amazes me when I think about it :) 

I totally spaced taking pictures while there but I got a few pictures of the mural on the wall from online to give you an idea of what we were looking at. It was one of the favorite parts of the tour as the boys loved to see the "Huge" pictures on the wall :) 

January 19th "I", Ice, and Toes

 Tissue Paper "I"

 

Gross Motor: Picking items up with their toes

 

By the end they enjoyed sticking the items in their toes before walking them to the buckets lol.

Racing to pick to put more items in the bucket using their toes once more.

"I" is for Ice!

Playing with ice and making it melt to find the polar toys inside.

Charlotte enjoyed jumping in with us for this activity :)

 

A few of the books the kids loved this month

Winter activities, cutting practice, letters and numbers

This month we having been learning a lot about hibernation and winter.

One of our kick off activities were making bear dens for a snack to go along with the books we read and will be reading during the month.

The boys also loved doing a little writing with dry erase markers. They were very meticulous in their work as they wanted to do a good job :)

Also, their favorite activity, cutting! They could not get enough and begged to take each piece home to show their proud work well done!

To demonstrate how animals stay warm in the winter we did a science/ sensory activity on blubber. For future reference I will remember next time NOT to do both hands! It is way hard to clean off and it would have worked better to compare the difference of their hands in the water.

Matching ABCs

In this activity the boys put the magnetic alphabet on the magnet board chalk letters. We did both upper and lower case letters!

Sparkely Number Formation 

The boys learned how to write a few of their numbers while singing to the tune: 

The wheels on the bus

Our goal is to focus on one or two numbers at a time while they are just starting out :)

Here is the song we are using from our book:

The one on the bag goes all the way down, all the way down, all the way down. The one on the bag goes all the way down. That’s how we make one!

The two on the bag goes around and across, around and across, around and across. The two on the bag goes around and across. That’s how we make two!

The three on the bag goes around and around, around and around, around and around. The three on the bag goes around and around. That’s how we make three!

The four on the bag goes angle, across, and down, angle, across, and down, angle, across, and down. The four on the bag goes angle, across, and down. That’s how we make four!

The five on the bag goes across, down and around, across, down and around, across, down and around. The five on the bag goes across, down and around. That’s how we make 5!

Indoor Snowmen

The boys enjoyed building snowmen with grated soap, toilet paper and water.

ABC Yoga

The boys LOVED doing ABC yoga we were enjoying too much to get pictures taken but here are the moves we used!

(The last one I have to use with them at a later time.)