Weekly Learning Highlights Week 5

Day 1 We learned that there are different ways and rhythms to sing the same song when we learned and sang the A B C Hip Hop Song. This helps us learn sound and beat recognition and appreciate different genres of music. Singing provides the opportunity to attend to sounds in music and lyrics, as well as helps us understand what comes next following cues and patters in a song. This song also allows us to learn by repeating, the letters of the alphabet and their order. In centers we played a Matching Parts of the Body game. It was a good introduction to physiology, and helped continue developing the cognitive skills needed to match and sort. We used language skills to name and describe parts of the body, using and increasing our descriptive and expressive language. When we learn and become aware of our body parts and physiology it helps us develop an appreciation for our own bodies and make us feel more confident in ourselves. Our teacher read Ten Little Fingers, Ten Little Toes to us. It is a story that demonstrate that no matter where we are from, or our differences, we still have many common traits. Listening to this story allowed us to explore language through books and also helped us recognize patterns in a story as we developed our comprehension of verbal communication through written text. It was also a fun way for us to practice the parts of the body. We sang and danced to Head and Shoulders. Dancing and singing to Head and Shoulders helps us develop our listening skills while attending to communication and language from others while we learn the words to a song. We also had to focus so we can follow the words to do the motions. It also develops our muscles and motor skills as we move to the rhythm of the music.