Letter T Week
4/2/26
Dear TK Families,
It was a terrific week in the TK class! Most of this week we spent making tangrams, exploring trampoline science, and wrote a book about teddy bears!
We read a book this week called Grandfather Tang’s Story by Ann Tompert. This book uses the Chinese form of a story-telling called a tangram. A tangram is a Chinese puzzle consisting of a square cut into 5 triangles, a square, and a parallelogram. In the story, Grandfather Tang tells his granddaughter a tale of two foxes that change into different animals by rearranging their tangram puzzles. After reading the book, the children cut, colored, and designed their own tangram picture. They had to make sure they used all 7 pieces, each piece had to touch at least one other piece, and it needed to be a picture of an animal, person, or object. They did a wonderful job being creative! Ask your child how many pieces are in a tangram.
Our science STEM activity was a total hit this week! We made a “trampoline” by using a pasta colander and threading rubber bands through it. These rubber bands were secured by toothpicks and VOILA – trampoline! The boys and girls experimented dropping different objects on to the trampoline and recording how high they bounced. Did the dice bounce the highest? What about the balls? Ask your child if they played here this week!
On Thursday, we had our very special Teddy Bear Day! Each child drew a picture of their bear, measured how tall it was with a ruler, gave it a name, and wrote a little bit about what they might like to do with their bear. We turned this into our next class book!
Other activities around the classroom were: playing Trouble, making tulip fork art, and a tea party in dramatic play.
A few questions to ask your child:
- Can your child tell you about what they created with their tangrams?
- Did your child do a “tooth” painting? What did they use to paint with? (A toothbrush!)
- Can your child tell you about the game “Telephone” that we played?
Next week, we will unanimously unite for U week! See you at conferences next week 😊
Best,
Lynn, Mandee and Emily