Personal Awareness

(Blogger has deleted my pictures 3 times tonight. I'm hoping to get them loaded soon. But until then a few updates.)

We have been working on Personal Awareness. Each child has their sticker chart w/ their name, name tags for circle time, and names on the wall. Everyday they are responsible for finding their name during several games and activities that we play during circle time and throughout the day. They are all doing so good being able to pick out their own name from everyone elses.

We have been talking about traits that each of us has. We've been comparing and contrasting eye color, hair color, and boy/girl. They LOVE looking at themselves in the mirror and telling me and their friends things about themselves. We sing a song "Looking in the mirror, what do I see?" (to the tune of Brown Bear Brown Bear).

Since they are all at different levels I'm trying to get each of them practicing their names in different ways. We've used shaving cream, tracing in the sand, tracing on paper, and just pointing to start learning to write our names.

Also, we are working a lot on becoming more independent by putting on our own shoes, clothes after potty time, brushing teeth, and cleaning up after we eat.

Finishing out this month and into September we will be working on Our 5 Senses, Living Things, Healthy Food, Staying Active, and Healthy Teeth.