On Wednesday we celebrated Kansas Day-which is today, January 29! We made a special Kansas Day project and learned things about the state we live in. We played with owl babies (bits of cotton poked in the pinecones) and found O shapes all over. With kinetic sand we are exploring the difference between ovals and circles and noticing similarities between zeros and the letter O. We have an O shaped balance beam in our Big Body corner and rainbow puzzles that can turn into O shapes. We have a Golden Letter friend, Owen who comes every afternoon!
Our Alphabet Friend Omar is very orange with different shades of orange paint (mixed by the children) and today we added orange oil scent.
The morning class finished painting him so they helped wash the brushes and paint cups with Grandma Bonnie. The afternoon class added the oil right before clean up time once the paint dried.
Both classes put our Alphabet Friends in alphabetical order today! Incredible!
For Outside Time today the teachers were the horses and the children got to ride in our wagons, pretending they were covered wagons (just like in our book!).
Just like owls that live in Kansas, we are closing our eyes and covering our ears to see how it feels. Sensory isolation and deprivation can help us experience our environment in new ways, often bringing a sense of calm.
Our Clean Up Song this week is Over in the Meadow. In addition to over, we’re exploring other prepositions (describing spatial relationships, indicating the position of something relative to another object) during our play this week too like under, through, next to, between, etc. Sometimes we get on the table to “clean” it.
Conversation Starter: Snack Time
Morning class: What did you put on your straw today? O shaped cereal! We also had a preschool snack of oranges and cheese.
Afternoon class: What food did Owen bring that he loves? French fried onions! He also brought orange juice, Oreos and orange cheese. Thank you, Owen!
Here is a movie of both snack times:
Conversation Starter: Story Time
Why did Laura feel scared?
Pa left on the wagon to go collect logs for their cabin and she was in the wide open prairie.
A Little Prairie House is a picture book version from the Little House on the Prairie series. We learn about the process the family went to from living in their covered wagon to building their log cabin.
Conversation Starter: Project Time
What do you see when you open the door in your log cabin?
Ourselves! After gluing logs to our paper houses, we added a door so pictures of us could peek out.
Conversation Starter: Circle Time
Why did you cross things off of the paper? During Circle Time we each had a paper with pictures: we crossed out the things that require electricity and circled (with the letter O!) things that do not require electricity. Back when Laura and Mary arrived in Kansas, they had no electricity in their homes. You can look around your home and notice all the things that do and do not require electricity.
Remember: no preschool next week
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