Letter of the Week S s

Providing learning opportunities to spark a greater understanding of people, cultures, animals, stores, and books; Teacher Gina excites the

children through active learning with real photographs

Sign S s

surf

sumo

snow clothes

sled

seal

shark

stores

Samoa

STOP

ReflectionsTeacher Gina placed the slides in a three ring binder with sheet

protectors, so the students can write the words in the writing center.

One student did the whole binder of writing the words.

The other students wanted to look at the pictures in the binder during the afternoon reading time.

Early Literacy BooksLetter S

Swing!Kinesthetic learners exploring

book that promotes movement in the classroom through reenacting the book

Ask the child to look for letter s words in the book

The student performed the sports

Star Wars 1 2 3Suggested retail price of the

book was $12.99, Teacher Gina purchased it for $.14.

Early mathematics learning skills counting

The student pointing at the title page said, “That is the new Star Wars with Chewbacca.”

A student at pick up showed his parents the Star Wars book

Gina imaginative use of materials for the hill

During 2002 & 2009, she when go tubing down the Hillberg Ski Area on JBER

She placed her book

TuesdayTeacher Gina made snow from baking soda and water for her

students

WednesdayAn older student was playing more at the concrete operational play

where he was building a mountain on the hill for the animals to slide down the hill.

ThursdayGina places the container in the teacher’s breakroom for outside afternoon

time.Gina decided to download the sand timer app for her phone to notify the

students that their time is up at sensory table. The students asked, “Miss Gina, can we play with the snow? We want to

play.”They were busy at the snow table using their imaginations to perform

variety types of play: solitary play, onlooker play, parallel play, associative play, and cooperative play.

Students named all of the animals in the snow, buried the animals, fed the animals the snow, and placed the animals in the fruit cup container full of snow.

FridayThe students wanted the snow that Miss Gina made outside during

the morning play time, but she was not there.

The student was hiding the safari animals in the snow while asking Miss Gina to guess what animal is in there. Providing serve and return interactions is essential for student’s educational opportunities.

I used dialogical reading and song referring to my niece’s school exploration Pete the Cat School Shoes