Activities for Wednesday, January 27, 2010

Willow Room: MWF class

We read "Chicka Chicka Boom Boom" by Bill Martin Jr. today. Our question today was "Do you have any pockets?"

We also did some pizza rhymes.
We did blot painting using eye droppers and paint onto a mitten shape. We used lack paper and white chalk at the easels.

We had a pizza game out, a mice shape sorting game, some alphabet beads for stringing and a letter "E" puzzle. We also had out a magnetic game of our story, chicka chicka boom boom. and we had a mitten match game where the children find the matching mittens and hang them on the clothesline using clothespins.

We used rhythm sticks and sang a weather song. We also sang "Face the facts".

Maple Room:

We read "How do dinosaurs go to school? by Jane Yolen and Mark Teague

We used a mixture of shaving cream and glue to make 3D dinosaur shapes.

We had dinosaur shapes with dinosaur foot print stampers.

We sang 5 little dinosaurs, I'm a little dinosaur, and used scarves to dance to Dancing scarf Blues, and Shadow dancing.

We are learning about the letter "K", we did some dinosaur rhymes and songs .

We also had some dinosaurs frozen in ice and we used salt to melt the ice to free the dinosaurs.

Oak Room:

We read "What will I do without you?" by Sally Grindley

We drew "Q" words in our journals today.

We sang five green and speckled frogs today and each of the children had their own frogs, log and pond. We sang the song and counted down as each frog jumped from the log into the pond, we were worked on counting down, following directions, and singing the song too.

We read a second story, Happy Birthday Moon.

We had out some perfection games today for shape matching and we measured our snowflake to see if it got any bigger.