Ask a bunch of four year olds if they've ever been to the doctor and you will be entertained with wonderful stories and anecdotes about what "goes down" during such a visit.
Today we talked about doctors, and about experiences that we have had while visiting our doctors.
I loved the discussion and everything the children had to share, but for them, the most exciting part of the day was the opportunity to put on the nurse and doctor apparel, and play the part of such a care giver.
There wasn't enough time in the day to accommodate everyone's desire to play with the newly introduced doctor's kit. I had to assure several worried students that the doctor's kit would in fact stay in our room for a while, and that they would get an opportunity to play with it at some point.
I had a hoot watching them interact and get completely absorbed in the imaginative play. They had such a wonderful time.
(The EA and I may have shared several laughs together while watching them.)
The funniest thing I overheard today was from one of the JK doctors as they were performing an examination of one of their patients.
"You should really clean this ear......it's hard for me to see in it!!"
To accompany our "healthy me" theme, I added some themed activities to our math and literacy centres. The following is a great hands-on literacy and fine motor activity which I made to give the children an opportunity to do some letter matching while forming words we've been learning about during our theme time.
The words are built using letter tiles.
The new letter tiles have been added to our class as a result of credit earned through Scholastic orders. I love getting "free" stuff!
(You know you're dutch when......)
Newly posted to my stores is a collection of my ABC flashcards. All the themed flashcards are in one handy pack. The themed flashcards go along with the free ABC highlighting pages that you can also find in the free stuff collection. They are great for whole class activities, small literacy groups or individual practice. The kids love the different seasonal themes.......it makes ABC practice just a little more interesting. Set includes Fall/Halloween, Teddy Bears, Christmas, Winter, Valentine/Monster, and The Mitten.
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| You can find this pack {here} or {here}. |
New freebies available: Winter Alphabet ABC Highlighting page......
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| Freebie available {here} or {here}. |
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a multi-use pattern colouring handout.
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| Find this freebie {here} and {here}. |
For anyone interested, I am throwing a FEBRUARY BLAAH'S STORE WIDE SALE at both my TPT store and Teacher's Notebook store right now!!! Nothing takes away the blaah's like some new teaching material! :)
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