Activities for Thursday, October 1

Willow Room- T/Th class

We did our Good Morning song and read "Happy Birthday Moon" by Frank Asch. We did name recognition and what color is your name frog?

Creative art today was using funny stampers and at the easels we had chalk and black paper.

Some of our table activities were Mr Potato Head (fine motor skills) , farm animal sort (color recognition) and a zoo animal puzzle ( fine motor skills).

Some of our music today was "teddy bear teddy bear, turn around", and "the cool bear hunt song".

We went outside to the playground.

We added some small plastic pumpkins to the rice in the sensory table.


Maple Room- Thursday class

Today was our first day of our Thursday class.

We read "Chicka, chicka, boom boom" by Bill Martin Jr..
For art we used upper case letter stampers with paint and white paper.

Our music activities included some of our favorite songs.

We looked at our worm farm and we could see the tracks the worms are making through the dirt and sand. The sand is falling through the spaces made in the dirt. We even got to see one of the worms move today.

We also spent time in free art, reading stories, and playing some number and alphabet games.

We went outside today.


Oak Room:

Our story today was "Little Blue and Little Yellow" by Leo Lionni which is a great story about how the colors yellow and blue mix together to make green.

We also did a science experiment where we put drops of yellow and blue food color into a small amount of water. Then we discussed the new color that appeared. During choice time, we also let the children experiment with color mixing, adding drops of food color to water to see what new colors could be made. It was a very popular activity and the children were excited to see the results.

We followed up our story with a color mixing art activity; first the children cut out circles ad then took yellow and blue watercolor paint to make green.

We had the light table in the room today, this is a wooden box with a light inside and a frosted Plexiglas top. The light shines through and when translucent items are placed on top, the light allows the color to show through. We put out different color squares and the children put two colors on top of each other to see what new color was made.

For music today, we did "list of dances".

We went out to the playground today.