Our first Moon Day Play Day was a happy one. Read on to find out why the floor was sparkly (and why yours might be as well!), who the two jumping animals are and who thought there was a bowl of milk in the sky. I’m not sure if they noticed but there was a lot of practice in waiting for turns with parts of the project today. Well done, friends! We also had delightful regular play happening in our time together including another impromptu concert! It was special to have future preschoolers visit today…they definitely added a sweetness to our morning.
What did you get to shake on your paper after you painted it with glue? Glitter to turn them into shiny full moons. That’s why the floor (and tables, chairs and we) are sparkly! Annelise and Essie delivered glue paint (watered down glue) so we could cover the back of a paper plate.
Then we took turns at the glitter tub to cover all the glue.
Then Mr Petr punched a hole in each moon and Ms Mara helped tie the red string on.
We hung them on the fence to dry…some friends are tall enough to reach on their own!
Who thought there was a bowl of milk in the sky? Little Kitten in the book, Little Kitten’s First Full Moon by Kevin Henkes. For almost the entire book she tried to get to the bowl of milk in the sky when really it was the first full moon she’d seen (they only come once a month, you know!).
We read the story inside and then some friends acted it out on the playground. The higher up they were, the more like the Little Kitten in the tree. In our book, Little Kitten felt scared when she was in the tree but none of our preschooler kittens were.
We had two books today and both had jumping animals! What did the kitten jump off of and what did the cow jump over? The kitten jumped off of the top step of her porch and the cow jumped over the moon.
During our Goodbye Time we looked at pictures in The Neighborhood Mother Goose for Hey Diddle Diddle and Wee Willie Winkie. Ms Kristin made a big mistake because she thought there would be a moon on the Wee Willie Winkie page…and there isn’t! And, that’s like real life when we don’t see the moon even though it is night.
(SIDE NOTE: At our school you can get up and move to a new spot any time you want to! If you can’t see, if you’re crowded or in this case, if you want to go sit by your dear teacher friend. )
Fun Fact:
The pages for Hey Diddle Diddle had been hiding in plain sight all morning-on the moon project table!
Some friends said they had indeed noticed it during the morning
(it’s right behind the group of children on a plexiglass stand).
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