Parent letter 8/23

 8-23-23

This week we learned about apples. There are lots of colors of apples green, yellow, red and pink but sadly no blue. And black and brown apples will be yucky.

We started rhyming words with -at words. 

bat, cat, fat, hat, mat, pat, sat, vat, and flat, splat, chat and that. Practice rhyming all kinds of words even making up words. Like zat, dat, gat etc. We will work on letters after we understand rhyming. 

We read Johnny Appleseed, and 10 apples up on top. 

We talked more about "all  about me". 

Did a fingerprint apple counting and made apples with our hands. 

We also started working on our name song learning how to spell our names.

Songs are a terrific way to teach children even adults anything. Put something to a tune and the human brain will store it differently.  Studies have shown after just becoming familiar with the song that we all remember the information 59% better than without music. The more we sing and listen to the song it increaeses to a 90% greater accuracy. Even many years later. So we put lots of information to a song.