to help remember the size of your valentine’s hand in 2010…
white paint on a tray to rub hand in then pressed on red mat board.
v is for valentine hand
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h is for haiti
when a preschooler’s mama has traveled to haiti, it provides the perfect opportunity to hear what kids know.
just like the public service announcements on pbs cautioning parents in terms of children seeing too many images of the destruction of haiti, i hesitate to burst bubbles of protection that parents have created.
but in vague enough terms with plenty of compassion, preschoolers shared what they knew about the devastation in haiti.
and dr. jenny, we wish you well as you travel home. thank you for sharing your gifts with the world.
r is for rhyme
hat rhymes with cat, bat, sat, mat, and rat.
we had only capital letters one day, added lowercase the next.
s is for sheep hair
feeling, pulling, stretching,
and finally gluing sheep hair on a capital H.
h is for house
a “house” was made with a long piece of fabric* threaded through the ceiling tile. very fun.
we kept the table under it until we finished a house project. then we attached the “house” to two rocking chairs.
this means that when you sit under the house and someone rocks in the chairs, there is a beautiful sweeping motion. ahhhhhhh.
*i bought this roll of fabric at the thrift shop not knowing what i would use it for. many things so far!
h is for hair, house, hat, horse
a little h week fun. you get the idea.
a is for address
again, a skill that we do not expect mastery of.
this is simply planting of the seed. each house has an address. if you have a house, you have an address.
we made our paper houses again (many, many different designs!) with paper shapes and glue.
adding the photo in one of the windows was fun.
then the children had one on one time for me to look up their address and write it down.
at the end of the day we did a little “show and tell” with each project.
h is for happy halloween
may it be happy and sweet and not a bit scary
(though i did scare a friend at school today. he only came to circle time when i took off my wig. sweetheart!)
d is for dog house
i brought this travel crate for the days our dog sally visited, then it was cleaned out, door removed and became a family corner prop.
i only wish i had a photo of friday when there were four (4!!!!) boys in it…with pillows and blankets. all barking.
to be in the dog house at preschool is a good thing.
h is for hungry animals
during our the very hungry caterpillar week, even the animals that usually live in the block corner got hungry.
they moved to the play-doh table and left instructions.
good thing.
p.s. can you see how our play-doh is all mixed up like the butterfly’s colors at the end of the book?
