Songs we sang this week:

  • Days of the week

  • Today is…

  • Five little ducks

  • Five little monkeys

  • Five little speckled frogs

  • Good morning

  • Hello How are you?

  • Baa Baa Black Sheep

  • Twinkle Twinkle little star

  • Among many other songs

  • Taxi

  • The wheels on the bus

  • Twinkle Twinkle Traffic light

During the course of this week we’ve continued to talk about the different transportation vehicles we have, since of course the recycling bins have been used as different modes of transportation. Laura and I decided to expand their imagination and actually add different pictures to these bins, our bins are now Taxis, bus, cars and airplanes. This week children added puppets, babies and food inside the bins while saying “beep, beep” or “choo-choo.” Next week we will be painting paper to decorate our taxis, buses, airplanes and cars.

We also worked on our fine and gross motor skills by manipulating the clay. The block of clay was displayed on the floor with no materials around it, children were then encouraged to use their feet, toes, elbows, hand, knees, forehead or any other part of their body to manipulate and change the shape of the clay.

Block Center: We created a play town in the block area! We added wooden blocks as building, cars, people and grass. We then encouraged children to explore it!

Art: We revisited the paint we made, this time we did a group art project rather then an individual piece of art work. A blank poster board was displayed on the table and all the chairs were removed, it was really interesting to see that our friends were really concerned with the chairs being gone. As soon as we walked into the classroom our friends were worried as to where the chairs went:

“Oh no” -Una

“Sit” while tapping on the table -Antoine

“Uh-oh” -Stan

We then explained the reason for the chairs being removed from the table and displayed the different paint for the children to choose from. Our friends quickly got to work and began exploring the paint, some friends used the paintbrush while others dripped the paint onto the paper, used their hands and finger as paint brushes.