Gobble, Gobble! It's Turkey Week in our Classroom!!

Gobble Gooble! It’s Turkey Week!!

We got very familiar with the beloved Thanksgiving turkey this week! Check out some of the activities and art projects that kept us busy J

We began our week with some fine motor strengthening practice in our Kids Kitchen. Here we reviewed how to open a clothespin, then played a shape and color recognition game, while developing our oral language skills by picking shapes saying, “the blue triangle,” or “white heart,” and then attached our clothespin to the shape!

For art we completed some great handprint turkeys we had started the previous week. We added feathers and in the afternoon attached clothespins to the feet so they could stand on their own!

We colored turkeys and then practiced our sequencing abilities and sequential order vocabulary by putting the turkeys in size order from smallest to biggest.

We made vanilla pudding in our Kids Kitchen! We created an “i” with our pudding and enjoyed the delicious snack!

For art we made handprint turkeys! We reviewed our color names and chose three different colors to create feathers for our turkeys.

While reviewing our turkey theme in Kids Kitchen, we practiced completing simple and challenging ABA and AABBAA patterns!

Our little Turkey helped us review our numeral recognition. Patterns and helped us learn the different body parts of a turkey.

We learned a fun Turkey song and had tons of fun dancing like a turkey!! Check out these little turkeys!

 We made turkeys with our own little thumbprints!

To help us with our numeral recognition and to gain a more in depth understanding in counting, we put numbered turkey feathers in order from 11 to 20. We are slowly learning the “teens!”

We then worked on tracing numbers after counting the number of turkeys on a worksheet. Our tracing skills are getting better and better and my munchkins are so proud of themselves.

Our letter of the week this week is the letter Ii! One of the ways we explored our letter of the week was looking for this letter in our names. We have 6 I's!

We made Turkey Gobbler Hats at the end of the week. Check back next week for some pictures of my munchkins in their hats.