Our home living center has turned into a fitness center.

The students had fun building their name snowman! I gave them snowballs with letters of their name in random order. They had to put them in order correctly and glue them to their paper. Knowledge of letters and words is an important component of literacy. The idea that written words are composed of letters that represent sounds is called the alphabetic principle. Children's understanding of the alphabetic principle is a predictor of future reading success.

Tearing paper might not seem like a big workout, but it helps children strengthen their hands and fingers, enhances hand-eye coordination, fosters bilateral coordination, supports pincer grasp development, and encourages creativity and self-expression.

Play is the natural way in which children learn, and during play children practice their skills and make sense of new knowledge and experiences. This game was a fun way to practice counting and number recognition. I had all the children put their heads down and had one child remove a number. They had to then figure out what number was missing. I was blown away with their sharpness and how quickly they found the missing number. I even tried to trick them by mixing the number line up, but they surprised me, and figured it out each time.

One-to-one correspondence is an early math skill that involves a child's ability to count in ascending order while touching each object in a set, one by one, and only once. The children had to touch and count different colors of bows, and write the correct number. They had so much fun with this activity.