This activity was a combination of art and language. First the children glued a picture of themselves dressed as a pirate to their paper, and then made a drawing around their picture. Next, they dictated a story to the teachers about their artwork.
After reading the story Mouse Count by Ella Stoll Walsh, we gave the children some toy mice and a snake puppet so that they could retell the story in their own words.
For this activity the names of flowers were spelled out on a piece of paper with a picture of the flower. The children used faux flower petals with letters written on them to spell out the names of the flowers. They matched up the letters on the petals with the letters on the paper. A good letter matching and letter recognition skill.
For this activity the children re-enacted the nursery rhyme Humpty Dumpty. The sat on a small wall made from cardboard blocks while saying the rhyme, and then fell off the wall.
For this activity the children used alphabet blocks to make words. They matched the letter blocks to the letters on the papers to spell words like hat, dog, cat, and pig.
This activity was a combination of art and language. For the art part of the activity we gave the children colored circles, crayons and glue. The children glued the colored circles onto their paper to make a caterpillar. They used the crayons to give the caterpillars legs, antennae, and faces. After their caterpillar was complete they dictated a story to the teachers to write down for them.
For this activity we had the children sort modes of transportation by where you would most likely see them in action.
The teachers and children built a sort of obstacle course in the block area for this activity. The teachers gave the children specific directions on how to move their vehicles through the course. The children had to follow such commands as: drive under the bridge, go through the tunnel, drive around the school, go over the hill, etc... This was a good way for the children to get familiar with these directional words.
After learning about gardens for more than a week, we asked the children what they thought was needed for a garden to grow. All of the children had some idea about the what was needed. The mentioned things such as soil, water, sunshine, and scarecrows.
For this activity we placed items, that you would find a farmer's market, into a bag. The children reached into the bad and described how the items felt. After feeling the items, the children tried to guess what they were.
We filled a bag full of different types of clothes for this activity. The children were to reach into the bag and see if they could guess what the article of clothing was just by touching it. After they took the article of clothing out of the bag, the children were to identify it and tell what season someone would like to wear it.
For this activity we used a baby doll and some band-aids. The children were to tell a story about how the baby fell down and got injured, and what part of the body the baby injured. Along with the story telling aspect of this activity, the children were also naming body parts.
We wanted to let the children experience how a common household chore would have been done years ago. We set up a washboard and washtub in our kitchen area. We filled the washtub up with water and let them practice washing some socks. The children soaked, scrubbed, and wrung out the socks. The kids had loads of fun with this activity.
For this language activity the children had to identify the body parts of the mummy and then assemble the mummy correctly.
For this activity we asked the children to complete the following sentence in their own words: "Go away big green monster! and don't come back until..." As you can tell from the pictures above, we got some creative sentences from the children.
After reading The Napping House story, the children used magnetic pieces to retell the story in their own words. Since the story pieces were magnetic they could be used on our classroom chalkboard.
The children told farm stories today. They first drew a picture of what they might see on a farm. Next they told the teacher their farm story. The teacher wrote down each child's story for them.
For our language activity today we worked on the concepts of rhyming words with the children. We gave them an assortment of objects and ask them if they could pair up the ones that rhymed.
Our language activity for today was naming different types of construction machines. We had the children match pictures of various construction machines and tell the names of the machines. We also talked about what jobs each machine performs. Some of the vocabulary words that were learned during this activity included: bulldozer, tractor, cement mixer, fork lift, and steam roller.
