MLK Day 1/18-21

  ☮ ❤🧡💛💚💙💜 MLK DAY 💜💙💚💛🧡❤☮

This week was all about friendship and being kind to one another.  The Quarter Notes already do a wonderful job being good friends, but Martin Luther King Day is a great opportunity to remind the class to be a good friend to everyone. 😊

Each child picked a different skin tone silhouette and decorated it using glue, tissue paper squares, and gems. 

The words, LOVE, PEACE, MLK, and FRIEND were put into plastic sleeves for early handwriting skills and letter recognition.  

The class sang friendship songs, read books about friendship, strung friendship bracelets, and made a friendship wreath by painting our hands and stamping them onto a posterboard. 

Everyone received compliments from their friends during circle time. ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤

Thomas Knight performed a virtual puppet show on Wednesday.  The Quarter Notes seemed to enjoy his fun songs about the solar system, recycling, and The Billy Goats Gruff. 🐐 🐐 🐐 You can view his page at: Tomknight.com 

The class read the book, Should I Share My Ice Cream?, and enjoyed a puppet show with Gerald, Piggie, and a pretend ice cream.

Making letters is fun when you use bags of paint! Everyone used their pointer fingers to follow the HWT letter cards. The smiley faces and arrows helped to remind the children to start their letters at the top and the direction to go (straight down or curved). 

☮ Mandarin: Zodiac animals, snowmen, Happy New Year songs. 

☮ Music: Mississippi Stop Stop, Beats, Blue Jello.

☮ Sports: Rainbow strings and kicking soccer balls. 

                 ✌ HAVE A GREAT WEEKEND! ✌ 

              Alison Dressler         Dana Mathews 

A book about being a good friend.  ❤

Shawn looking very distinguished in his Oreo mustache. 🤣🧔

Marching to Mississippi Stop Stop drumbeat.  

Making bunny bow holds with our hands. 

Playing Patty Cake to the beat. 

Drawing facial features with markers, then gluing on gems and tissue paper squares. 

Making friendship bead bracelet and necklaces. This activity is great for fine motor skills! 

Tom Knight puppet show

Year of the tiger. 🐅 

Using fine motor skills to draw and cut paper. 

Great job stringing the beads, Michael! 

Using color coded clothes pins to strengthen our hands and match colors together.  

Following the negative space with a crayon to practice writing curved and straight lines (early handwriting skills). 

Practicing writing our names on laminated sheets with whiteboard markers. 

Great job, Aashvi! 

Mo Willems teaches great lessons in his books. 

In this book, Gerald decided to share his yummy ice cream with Piggie because he knows it will cheer her up! 😊 

Making handprints for our Friendship Wreath. 

Too cold to go outside on Friday. Time for a dance party! 

The Quarter Note Friendship Wreath.  

We're missing some friends, but hopefully can add to it next week. 😊