Activities for Monday, September 28

All classes went outside today- please remember jackets! We go out if the playground is dry enough and the temps are above 40 degrees.



Willow Room-MWF class

Our story today was a book on tape called "Big Bears Can!" by David Bedford. Which was about Big and little- we followed that up with our question today, "Do you have a BIG brother or sister or a LITTLE Brother or sister?

For art we glued BIG and LITTLE pompoms and BIG and LITTLE letters on paper. We had painting with fun objects at the easel today.

Our music activities today were some Jim Gill songs- "List of dances", and "Stuck on glue" and we also did "Brown bear, Brown bear".

We went outside today and boy was it windy! But, it helped our discussion of how the weather is changing and we talked with the children about what kind of clothes we need to wear in cooler weather.

Maple Room- MWF class

We are beginning to talk about apples so we did apple prints at art today. At the easels we had the dab a dot painters.

Our story was a special one about apples today too, it is a verbal story called "The little house with no doors and no windows and a star in the middle". It is about a little child who goes on a search for this special house and the surprise at the end of the story is to cut an apple in half crosswise and the star is in the middle. This story always fascinates children. Look for the star in your apples.

Some of our music today was 5 apples, September song, and apple on the ground.

We began a special ongoing science activity today: we made a worm farm for our science area. The instructions came from The museum of science and industry. In a large jar, you layer moist dirt, and moist sand with some oatmeal, add some worms, make sure there are air holes in the lid, cover the jar with black construction paper and watch what happens. If you would like to make your own worm farm, look on the museum of science and industry website for complete details. "Construct a worm farm". (www.msichicago.org)

Oak Room:

Today we talked about our sense of smell. Our story was "Arthur's Nose" by Marc Brown. We popped popcorn using an air popper at circle time which we then used as a sensory experience in our sensory table. We used scoops, shovels and cups to play with it. We also used some popcorn, colored with dry tempra paint to make pictures by gluing the popcorn to paper. Of course, we had to make some more popcorn to eat at snacktime.

For music we did "5 little popcorn kernals in a pan" "Today is Monday," and more.

We continued to talk about the letter " C", and asked the children if they have a letter "C" in their name.