we were graced with hundreds of nuts. perfect for lots of sorting, counting, moving and hauling…
a nutty good time indeed. thank you, families.
n is for (lots of) nuts
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n is for nut buddy
totally crafty.
totally not child-centered (all they did was choose a nut with eyes already hot glued on and an acorn cap for the teacher to glue on).
except for the moment they carry their nut buddy around the room and it enters their play.
w is for winter animals
we discussed ways that animals adapt to winter and hid some of our nuts to eat at home.
a paper “cave” glued to old mat board, covered with kleenex and paper towels, then nuts hidden inside.
we covered the cave hole with another kleenex.
that way families didn’t know we had nuts in there.
l is for lame
seldom do i set up a project that is so lame that we don’t continue on. don’t get me wrong, almost every project evolves once the children get going with it. what i have in my lesson plans is almost never exactly what we end up doing.
this project was supposed to provide pages and pages of wood-stamped “nuts.”
but the wood pieces didn’t hold much wood for printing or rolling, the paint wasn’t a warm brown-more of a greenish gray, the paper kept tearing. i abandoned it almost immediately.
truly a process-only experience.
n is for nut math
we reintroduced the concept of “math sentences” again.
after using real nuts to demonstrate that no matter how you group them, ten nuts will always add up to ten nuts, the children had paper nuts to glue in and/or out of the basket.
for some reason, this one is the “silly” one:
but not quite as silly as when there are no nuts in the basket.
n is for nut
with no nut allergies this year, we are going nutty!
show and tell this week is “nuts in shells or acorns.”
we have quite a collection for sorting and counting, feeling and, of course cracking.
i is for inspired
at the first circle time i invited preschoolers to start thinking of something they wished they could do. about an hour later we gathered again and wrote down the ideas. then there were paper strips to glue (a bit like new years fireworks?). these are posted in our display cases, so i want to have them here for families who don’t make it down to the classroom.
happy new year.
p.s. we have a few more preschool friends to hear from, we’ll get there!
n is for (happy!) new year
remembering the fun from last year, we played this game again. it (doesn’t really) require a horn to blow. : )
so we used old calendars and catalogs to make some. i displayed a page from amanda dade’s new year’s parade that we read before playing our game.
snipping along one side, then rolling up, taping, and folding down the snips.
the game is played with our judy clock. i really wish we had enough for everyone, but it works for me to hold the clock. we start at one o’clock and head through the hours until 12:00. the children really watch carefully and i delight in planting the seed of time telling. then there is jumping up and hooting and hollering and happy-new-year yelling!
m is for mother’s day
SPOILER ALERT: if you are a mama from preschool and you have not opened your green tissue paper or white lunch bag present, stop reading (and check your child’s backpack…)!
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but may you all know the joy children take in making something for someone special. this year they were “found items necklaces” (or “things to hang on a nail if the mom doesn’t wear necklaces” as one friend said) with 1 inch photos of each.
yes, my mom would want this.
oh, my mom loves this color.
my mom needs a lot of these.
my mom wants one of everything.
totally worth the mess.
w is for writing
someone down the hall donated a stack of yellow notebooks. perfect for yellow week!
the kind of writing that happened was unique and so fun to see.
the “office” expanded quickly from one table to two.
