Week 22: 100s of Valentines!

Books We Read
Chicka Chicka 1-2-3
Penguin in Love

Song of the Week
Valentine's Day
Valentine, Valentine, Valentine's Day.
The day that I'm sending a letter to say
I love you!
Yes, I do!
Hope you will send me a Valentine, too!

Made you a Valentine, made it today
For you are my friend and I wanted to say
I love you!
Yes, I do!
Hope you will send me a Valentine, too!

Here is the postman, a Valentine came,
All tied with a ribbon and signed with your name!
I love you!
Yes, I do!
Hope you will send me a Valentine, too!

Weekly Activities
100s Day Activities
We had two great activities today.  In the first one, Mr. McCullough gave us a sheet that was broken in to ten parts.  It was our job to fill each part with ten dots, circles, stickers, pictures, or anything we wanted, so long as there were ten of them.  After we had ten groups of ten, we were done!

Working with a partner, we filled a 100s chart with Fruit Loops!  Once it was full, we created necklaces or bracelets that we could take home and, if we wanted, eat!

Letter G
Chicka Chicka 1 2 3, this week we worked on the letter G!  Starting in the same spot as our C, O and Q, Mr. McCullough got us to stop when we were almost done, "breaking" the circle with a little line.

Valentine Bags
To get ready for Valentine's Day, we decorated some simple paper bags with stickers, foam hearts, glittery sticker hearts and markers.  These bags were very important for...

Valentine Hearts
Everybody made as many Valentine Hearts as they wanted, using the same materials as mentioned above, plus some shiny jewels.  One side of the card had the decorations, while the other had who the card was to and who is was from.

Other Things We Did
We learned that 10 groups of 10 makes a hundred, got up to 100 on our chart, and learned that, after 100, we start counting by 1s again!

Everybody brought in a bag of a hundred.... something!  We had puzzle pieces, pasta, beans, corn pops, Cheerios and even stickers!

Even though we read Chicka Chicka 1 2 3 earlier in the year, we read it again, because a good book is like a favourite food - you don't have to have it only once in your life!

X (as in x-ray) and CH (as in choo-choo) were added to our phonics list!  We also played a little bit of phonics roulette, randomly recalling phonics we've learned so far.

We talked about Valentine's Day, why love is important and what it actually means.