December 7, 2018

Different books were read:

Little Blue and Little Yellow
Manners Time
Sharing Time
Hug Machine
Should I Share My Ice Cream?
The Thank You Book
Bear Says Thanks
My First Chanukah
Subway
Jingle Paws
The Napping House and many more

Songs we sang:

Good Morning Songs
Jump in the middle
Where is Thumbkin
Where is blue (A glove with different color on each finger)
ABC
Five Little Monkeys
Five Little Speckled Frogs
Five Little Ducks
Muffin Man
Bubble Gum
Buenos Dias
Un pequeno dedo
Hasta Manana and more

This week was shared snack week. The children brought in a special snack to share with their peers. This promotes independence and kindness as they say thank you!

The children engaged and participated in different activities:

Exploring with model magic and adorning it with pipe cleaners and glitter. As Nathaniel interacted with the materials, he placed three pipe cleaners on his head.

Building structures with blocks enable children to maneuver, create and use their imagination as they place one block onto another.

Spanish:

The teachers, Spanish Specialist, and the children created a big circle with their hands, and as they go in the circle, it got smaller. They are learning about big (Grande) and small (Pequeno) circles.

We counted different items during the week, and we counted in English and Spanish.

How many stars? 6

How many feathers? 5

Reading Session

Nathaniel shared snack: Raisins, crackers, and cheese.

Painting on mirrors

Leela: “Look circles!”

Exploring mirrors and geometric shapes.

Leo: “I made a silly house! It has lots of colors.”

Leo shared, clementines.

Oliver shared, Latkes!

Some of the children danced in the middle of the circle to one of our new songs, Jump in the water.

Leo: “I going to make a cake!”

Teacher:” What flavor?”

Leo: “Chocolate!”

Leo’s chocolate cakes!

Science Experiment:

Materials used:

Milk

Food Coloring

Dishwashing Detergent

Q-tips

The teacher applied some dishwashing detergent on the tip of a Q-tip and slightly touched the food coloring. It caused the color to spread and create a swirling movement. The children were amazed as they observed.

We will do this experiment again and each child will have the opportunity to hold the Q-tip and tap on a color.

We had a special visitor on Thursday, Oliver’s Mom, Natalie. She shared and put together a special Menorah, brought some dreidels, and read a book about Hanukkah. Thank you, Natalie!

Music!

We made a menorah out of Popsicle sticks.

The children placed the ornaments they decorated on our classroom Christmas Tree.

James shared snack: Clementines and crackers.

Yoga!

The children listened to a beautiful story about friendship and colors. A story about two friends, little blue and little yellow, and their new color represents a merging of their two individual colors, green. Little Blue and Little Yellow are friends, but one day they can’t find each other, and when they do, they hug and hug until they turned green. Although they do not stay green, they were still friends.

This unique storybook is useful both as an introduction of color blending and as a story of friendship and acceptance.

After the reading session, the children used paper plates to mix blue and yellow to create a secondary color, green.