January 1, 2021 by toddletowne2015

In The Kitchen: January

This is for fun not for eating! Home made Slime will provide lots of fun and entertainment on a snowy Sunday afternoon. Mix equal parts liquid laundry starch and Elmer’s Glue. Food coloring and flavoring extract may be added to the laundry starch for variety. This also makes an inexpensive party favor. It will keep for some time in the refrigerator.

With TRANSPORTATION as a theme the children will classify air, land, and water transportation; learn transportation terms; become alert to many different and unusual methods of transportation and to people who use specialized forms of transportation. The children will have a “homework assignment” for this unit, we would like them to cut out pictures of transportation to bring in for our bulletin boards. Their assignment includes cleaning up any mess they may make cutting.

Focused language skills this month will include patterns and vocabulary including opposites, placement words, rhymes and personal and standard sight words. In the area of math, children will be working with money and on number recognition. Children will become more aware of themselves as they work on recognizing and naming body parts and becoming more independent in dressing themselves from putting on their own shoes and socks to buttoning and zipping their coats. To develop both fine and gross motor skills, children will work with puzzles and balls.