thanks to the health-o-meter, we could figure out our weight (thank you, ms. vicki!)
this little poem was filled in for each child and taped in their journal.
w is for weight
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Monthly Archives: April 2009
w is for willaby wollaby
we love this silly, silly song.
we love reusing items. here we used paper plates, gray fabric and the one gray plastic bag i could find! since it was a short week and we wanted to use these at circle time, i made their pieces stick with hot glue.
and how silly that the elephants we made all had everyone’s names with a W at the front (except for one friend who was in tears because he KNEW his name started with K and not W…we covered the silly name with fabric).
and how silly that the elephants talked (but only ms. kristin could hear them).
and how silly that they played hide and seek from the grandma and grandpa friends.
and how silly that these elephants might be sitting on you at home now!
g is for grow!
look at our wheat…photo taken exactly one week from planting.
since it comes from organic wheat seed, we nibble on it. some kids ate quite a bit, tearing it off or actually getting scissors.
it is surprisngly sweet after you chew it a bit.
and wow, look at this:
no mystery left here.
c is for chicken
t is for teacher (or therapy…physical therapy?)
g is for grass
we did this to fill our brown bag and ribbon easter baskets, but this could be used for any spring project.
i told the class i didn’t have any of the plastic easter grass so what would we do? cut our own? oops, raining (that was handy). and oops, this was the same day we pretended we didn’t have scissors. then i told them we would use a machine. oooooooooo.
i can’t believe i haven’t done this sooner. we talked safety rules and why this was okay to do at preschool. we talked about rules if they have one of these at home or if they see one somewhere (that they must ask a grown up first, etc). we looked at the cutting part and saw that it wasn’t knives or scissors at all. we looked at the opening and saw that a finger can’t fit in.
then we shredded paper.
look at those faces.
it was delightful to say the least.
they waited their turn, then chose a shade of green and turned it into grass!
y is for yarn
i really can’t explain this because i had nothing to do with it.
but most of the class was involved.
and at the end of the week, i discovered it was all cleaned up.
