Dear you all,
We started the week tracing our bodies. The children took turns lying
down and getting traced. We counted fingers, legs, and arms as we
traced. Everyone used oil pastels to color their tracings on the
second day. On the third day, we used watercolors to paint them. We
are colorful indeed!
We have been singing On Top Of Spaghetti, Byum Byum By Bubblegum, This
Little Light of Mine, It’s Raining It’s Pouring, Raindrops Keep Fallin
On My Head, The Peanut-butter Song, A Circles Round, and many others.
We played Red Light, Green Light in the big room. We talked about
using listening ears and watching eyes, to make sure we don’t crash
into one another. We used our STOP sign, which includes a GO sign on
the other side. We counted the sides of the stop sign and identified
its shape. It has the same number of sides as an octopus has legs. We
talked about how red means stop and green means go. During the game,
we ran, hopped like bunnies, stomped like elephants, crawled like
kitties, and slithered like snakes. After all that work, we went out
to play.
We have been watching our grass grow each day and singing The Green
Grass Grows All Around.
We are using some sign language during snacks. The children are
helping to create signs for different snacks. When they want more,
instead of yelling out (supposedly), we are holding up the signs for
water, crackers, vege sticks, bear crackers, or popcorn. We talked
about other non-verbal signs we use every day: yes, no, I don’t know,
and stop.
We did some yoga stretches during circle. The children were focused
and still. We did cat, squat, body roll, and triangle.
Next week we will make our eye pie, do self-portraits with Heather,
and begin yoga with Frank.
Have a chilly weekend,
Therese
Take a walk on the wild side
Hi All,
This week during circle we counted our fingers and toes. We pointed and flexed our feet right before reading Hello Feet! Hello Toes! We went barefoot in the big room to walk across the stage and feel many textures with our feet. Children said they felt scratchy, bubbly, soft, sticky, prickly, and poppy. Everybody closed their eyes for one last super soft foot feel, then we put our shoes back on and went outside to play.
The next day we painted with our feet. Everyone stepped in paint and walked across mural paper. We painted the town red. After the washing of the feet, we put shoes back on and went into the big room to play. We shared tricycles, balls, and babies.
After reading The Soles Of Your Feet, everybody took turns trying to pick up a pencil with our toes, not easy! We read Froggy Goes To Bed and Good Morning, Chick! We noticed their feet were different from our feet and that the frog's feet flopped when he hopped. We made a list of things we can do with our feet: walk, run, hop, pick up pencils and keys.
In the big room, we stomped like elephants and dinosaurs, galloped like horses, skipped to my Lou, walked, and finally sat in a circle. We played Hot Potato with our balls, trying to get rid of them as quickly as we could, rolling them to friends.
We read The Foot Book by Dr. Seuss during circle and sang Good Morning. In the big room, after playing, we have been going to the Peanut Butter Wall and singing the Peanut Butter song. We use our hands to smash the peanuts and our feet to squish the grapes.
Next week we will dig deeper into our All About Me unit. We will make little books using our hand and footprints.
Have a chilly weekend,
Therese