Activities for Friday, October 2

Willow Room- MWF class

We read "Corduroy" by Don Freeman; this book is considered a classic in children's literature.

Our art project was then to give the children a paper cut out to look like Corduroy's overalls in the story; then the children glued buttons all over the paper overalls.

Our question for today was "Do you have a button on your clothes?"

At our second circle time today, we did our weather and calendar, counting activities and we played a color bear game where we looked for colors that are in our room.

At the easel today we had some new paint brushes, they are short, with thick bristles, and they are made special to not roll off tables. At our free art table, the children were gluing objects onto paper.

We had bead stringing, a puzzle with all kinds of locks on it, and an alphabet magnetic puzzle out for fine motor skills,

Our music activities today were "head, shoulders, knees and toes" , "everybody has a face", and "The Sneezing song".

We went out to the playground today.


Maple Room: MWF class

We read "The apple pie tree" by Zoe Hall.

For art we painted our version of apple trees using paper cut into a tree shape; we dipped different size and types of corks into red paint and pressed them onto the paper to look like apples. We were able also to look at how the different corks made different looking "apples".

At the easel we had stampers with paint. At our free art table today, the children "discovered" the scissors and were enjoying cutting paper, which is great for fine motor skills.

Our worm farm was placed in our sensory table today so the children could look at it easily from all sides. They could see the paths and tunnels that are being made by the worms.

We played a small group game today, shape bingo.

We went outside to the playground today.

Oak Room:

Today we talked about our sense of hearing and we read "The ear book" by Al Perkins. For a listening activity we counted pennies with our ears....we had the children count the pennies by listening to the sound they made when dropped into a cup. We blocked the view so they could not see the pennies, they could only hear them.

We always do our calendar activities, weather graphing and counting activities at circle time. We also often do a graphing question of the day

We did many listening activities today, we had some music instruments out during part of choice time, we put on a music CD of some fun songs, we talked loud and soft too.

For art, we made shakers to use during music. The children colored paper plates and we put a few beans in them so they would make noise when we shook them. We then used them at music time to make music for our song. We also had a tape of different sounds that we listened to and tried to identify what was making that sound.

For a science experiment today, we had frozen large ice blocks and the children used red, blue, and yellow colored water with eye droppers to drip onto the ice. They were able to see the primary colors mix to make new secondary colors. They could also see how the water made the ice melt and holes developed in the ice block. This was a popular activity.

Monday, October 5 - children in the Oak room- Please remember to bring an apple to school today.