this is part of what i love about my work.
we have this weaving hanging in our room. it has been basically untouched for months. until this day.
this was complete cooperative work. incredible imagination. i never completely understood the game. but there was a lot of fine motor muscle work wrapping little animals around the yarn.
more good times.
preschoolers brought their own hats this week. i felt like i was on elmo’s world when i asked them one at a time during show and tell: how do you put a hat on? if they wanted to, preschoolers took a turn to stand on a capital H taped to the floor and show us how they put their hats on. cute.
we made hair bands.
with duct tape and fun foam strips, they could lay the strips on the tape anyway they like. then we covered the tape with another piece of tape and measured them to fit.
a preschool village is nearly complete.
the only rules were for each house to have at least one door, one window and one roof (many have more of each!). we’ve added a road and will add christmas decorations once advent starts. we’ll also introduce children to their address and add house numbers.
these hand puppets were silly. we cut old manila folders and colored and added paper fingernails. then stapled a piece of paper on the back so our real hands could fit in.
waving hello and hi and hola was more fun!
with a little rearranging we created a hospital in the classroom.
hospital beds for the dolls and animals (and for the preschoolers who weren’t afraid to squeeze in). cheap masking tape was used for band-aids and bandages.
there was an xray station (with real human xrays…thank you ms. aimee and real animal xrays i ordered years ago from lakeshore).
we turned our cart into an ambulance which has been moving surprisingly slow in the classroom.
the hospital office has been very busy. all of my procedures one day cost me “thirty nine and nine” each time.
we’ll keep the hospital for i week….because i is also for illness, infant, injury and infirmary. : )
g week and halloween came at the same time this year. the hulk didn’t scare too many of his friends…he has such a gentle smile under the mask.
the giraffe sat and watched the block building from her perch.
the pony and santa relaxed (maybe cooled off?…it is so warm in our classroom!) during book time.
our pumpkins changed their looks as well.
guess what we did?
using blocks from the block corner, we used our muscles and pounded sticks and golf tees to make hair and teeth.
then the teachers helped hot glue fake fur, rick rack, eyes and pom poms on where preschoolers wanted.
it was funny how different they all looked! and that some of them were named. meet travis
we introduced (or reintroduced) the question mark symbol. one kiddo asked where it was in the alphabet. : ) we read books that asked questions and used our five senses to discern what different things were.
hiding in bags we smelled coffee grounds, listened to a bell and felt rubber bands. at snack time we we tasted crackers and saw each other’s costumes!
our friday preschoolers turned into a pumpkin making factory using different shapes. these were funny ones…very few of them were orange!
we went trick or treating at the elders rooms…always a treat for them to see such sweet little costumed kids.
