November 21, 2018

The children participated and interacted in different activities. We sang and read different songs and books. This week we explored and read three new books, Bear Says Thanks, Sharing Time and Manners Time. They are excellent books that help young children to understand sharing, taking turns, saying please and thank you. These books relate to our curriculum of the year, Social/Emotional Development. Toddlers experience many emotions! How they recognize and manage their feelings, are an essential aspect of their development.

We are creating Emotions book! Each book will contain their different facial expressions. For example, happy, sad, surprised, and sleepy. Being able to recognize the feeling, helps them to understand them. The children are also engaged in working together by singing and acting out the motion of the song, Row, Row your boat! They each depend on their movements as they sway.

Emotional Learning throughout the Day in the Classroom:

• Make it a goal to start each day with a personal connection.  For example, giving a warm greeting to welcome each child as they arrive in the morning

• Give children opportunities to work with a partner.  It helps children learn to cooperate and share the space they are working in

• Work in groups

• They learn to share materials

• They learn to make decisions and respect each other’s decision

• Give them new words to say; for example, thank you and please

Highlights of the week:

Specialist: Music, Karate, Spanish, and Cooking with Diane

MANIPULATIVE TOYS:

Nicole selects two green and yellow blocks, and one red. As the teacher observed her, she wondered what color Nicole would choose. Nicole searched for a block in the basket, until she found the one she was looking for, red. Nicole created a pattern. Amazing!!

ART:

Watercolor Paper Towel Art

Various techniques in art promote a different sensory exploration and experience as children use materials. An excellent and simple way to add texture to a watercolor piece is with the use of a paper towel and crumbling it. Adding texture to their art with paper towel and watercolor, they can create an abstract painting.

As some children opened their paper towel after allowing it to dry, they noticed how colors spread and created light and dark tones on some parts of the paper. Using paper towels as a watercolor technique for texture enable children to explore and discover art in a different way.

Each artwork decorates and shows the artist in each child.

SENSORY:

Music and movement contribute to children’s overall development. It creates a current that enables them to transcend their minds to a happy place. Each experience is fun and meaningful for them. As they listen to music they clap, dance and sing. Row, row, row, your boat is one of the songs that we have children act out the motions of the song. Each group simultaneously moved as they held hands and allowed their bodies to feel the rhythm and beat of the song.

Each child brings his/her energy, movements, and participation in the activity; without one, the other cannot move. 

Different facial expressions to demonstrate their emotions.

Happy!

Happy

Happy