Literacy Week!
Wow- we had a blast this week for literacy week. It was super fun having Mommies come in and read with us! (Daddies- we’d love to have you come in, too!! If you ever have a little time to stop in and read, just let me know a day in advance). I think we all grew to love Eric Carle even more than we already had. The book “How to Draw a Star” really resonated with all of us- we really thought about how we are artists and how we have the power to tell whatever story we want just by drawing and talking through our thoughts. And “The Artist Who Painted a Blue Horse,” let us talk about creative decision making and how when we are making art, we can do things that we don’t normally see.
These are the specific books we studied this week: From Head to Toe (in Spanish), Papa Please Get the Moon for Me, The Very Hungry Caterpillar, The Very Busy Spider, The Artist Who Painted a Blue Horse, How to Draw a Star, Brown Bear Brown Bear, Polar Bear Polar Bear, Panda Bear Panda Bear.
We also read the book “Harold and the Purple Crayon,” and each designed our own page for a class book. You’ll get to see the finished book next week!
Here are some of the concepts we drew:
Sloane and the black crayon. I make a fishy. Swimming. He swimming with Mommy.
Riley and the purple crayon. I’m going to draw a butterfly. He’s on the tree top. He’s eating some strawberries. I making a purple cat now. I make a octopus. I make a umbrella. A bridge.
Luca and the brown crayon. A little fish is swimming and spinning. “Fish no spinning. No running, fish.” Now fish is swimming again.
Grayson and the black crayon. A yes crab. That’s a fish! Crab. Starfish. Crab. Crab goes snap.
Manuela and the red crayon.
Roger and the black crayon. It’s a not scary crab. It’s a happy crab.
Kennedy and the brown crayon. It’s a very scary spider!
Eleanor and the red crayon. This is the mountain. Elle climbing.
Finn and the yellow crayon. An excavator goes boom and scoop the dirt. Ok, this is going to be the map to my home. It says you go all the way around to my home. This is downtown and buildings and the road downtown
John and the blue crayon. This is a train going to Boston.
Barak and the orange crayon. I want to draw a firefighter with a helmet like mine. I’m making a ladder. Up, up, up. People are going up the ladder.
Someone donated the book “Choo Choo,” to the class, and it inspired a lovely conversation about where we take the train:
Finn: I go to the subway, it goes up and down.
John: I take the train to the apple farm. I go the 2 train to the museum. And the watermelon store!
Barak: With Daddy to the house, and then Barak go to school.
Roger: The number one train, it goes to the station platform.
Riley: I go train with Mommy.
Grayson: To the movie!
Kennedy: I go with Mommy and Daddy to New York City.
Sloane: With Mommy.
Luca: I take the train Mommy and Daddy and umbrella.
Specialists
Diane helped us celebrate literacy week by making hungry caterpillars with sunbutter, celery, raisins, craisins, and fruit gummies
Ernestina revisited the names for different farm animals
Coach Jojo had us hide treasure while working on our balancing skills.
We made spiders using strawberries, pretzels and mini chocolate chips