Grace students celebrate Dr. Seuss birthday - Grace ECCE teachers strive to foster classroom environments rich in the rhythms and cadences of oral language. With a focus on initiating and sustaining authentic conversations, and a vast repertoire of stories, songs, and finger-plays, Grace teachers immerse their students in a sea of language every day. Oral language is the foundation of early literacy; as students amass a wealth of meaningful oral language experiences, absorbing rhythms and intonations and playing with rhymes, they develop the foundational knowledge necessary for understanding and decoding written language. Young children delight in chants, silly songs, and rhyming games, playing with words and sounds. This week, Grace honored Dr. Seuss groundbreaking ability to transfer the playfulness and risk-taking inherent in nonsense words and rhyming games to the printed page. In addition to enjoying a lively, interactive storytelling performance by Becky Everly, Grace students of every age read and re-read many Seuss classics. Students in Mary Kay Healys classes colored red and white striped hats before using a recipe to practice planning, measuring, and following directions as they cooked green scrambled eggs. Students in Laura McCreerys classes celebrated their unique potential with art and displays inspired by The Lorax. In Megan Carroll and Kristin Cummings classes, students strengthened small muscles while cutting ten apples, practiced counting and numeral recognition with goldfish crackers, and explored symmetry and spatial concepts while creating whimsical creatures inspired by Theres a Wocket In My Pocket. In the Grace Childcare Center, toddlers attended a birthday party complete with Cat in the Hat cake and sliced strawberries and bananas stacked to resemble the iconic red and white hat. ow.ly/i/4WnUp
Posted on: Wed, 19 Mar 2014 17:50:26 +0000
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