This week’s activities are all about holes, humming and the humans who do them. We played hard today!
H Week Activities
Here are some H things for the week you can look for in photos, conversations and backpacks!
Story Time: We have a couple of Story Time books this week from our local library: A Hole in the Road (Jakki Wood) and Sam & Dave Dig a Hole (Marc Barnett).
Hand Painting: we’re painting with our hands and on our hands to make handprints.
Holes for water play: we had funnel and tube holes for indoor water play this week.
Hole Making: We are digging holes in cloud dough, kinetic sand and outside all week. We are making holes with hole punchers too. We also made holes with tunnels, blocks, paper, pillows and blankets. Holly the H was there for a lot of it.
Turkeys: We continue to work on our turkey place settings for next week’s Favorite Food Pot Lucks. Today we could punch holes in the feathers! We are also continuing to pluck Turkey Rob’s feathers and replace them in different orders. He’s very agreeable.
Fingerplay: This was a favorite a few weeks ago and the children remember it well. It has so many H words!
Here are 3 questions to learn more about our day:
What did you eat for snack today?
In the morning we had a birthday celebration snack for Sophie with cucumbers, raspberries, puppy chow, cheese sticks and Mickey Mouse Goldfish. Thank you for the party snack, Sophie!
In the afternoon we had warm chocolate chip sourdough bread made by Jensen’s mama and leftover snack mix from Cade. Thank you, Jensen and Cade!
Can we touch the dirt in the pumpkin?
Not anymore. The dirt was fine to touch until it got in the pumpkin, Now we need to keep it as still as a garden for our seeds to sprout. We’re hoping to see some plants pop through the dirt someday!
Your children may be able to show you how to tickle the ground for the roots and then put both hands up straight overhead to be the plant. We opened our hands to make leaves today too.
What color hole stickers did you use?
We had hole reinforcement stickers for our Journals today. They are bright colors and when they were all over the page they looked a lot like spilled fruity cheerios. Some friends were very intentional with color and placement of their stickers, even if it looked random!
Coping Skill of the Week: Hum
This week we are humming! By 2-4 months of age babies can begin making this sound. It’s a common self soothing technique in children and one we can benefit from too.
Breathe in through your nose, and then breathe out on a hum ‘hmmm’ with your lips closed. You should feel the vibration on your lips.
Stimulating the vagus nerve through the vibration that the humming sound creates in your throat, activates the parasympathetic nervous system.
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So lovely. Hmmmmmm. 😊