On Wednesday we welcomed R week and due to our 2 snow days, merged some Valentine’s Day, P and Q things in. Grandma Bonnie has a Quilting Corner for children to see and help with a real puff quilt full of rainbow colors!
Our dancing scarf rainbow quilt is back in the classroom for colorful play with our rocking boat (and brooms for pretend oars!). Roy G Biv, our new Alphabet Friend, is getting their stripes in ROYGBIV order (red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo, violet). We have a ramp for playdough balls and rocks to balance We’ve got five Golden Letter friends this week and two of them came to school this afternoon! Happy Golden Letter Day, Rex and Roo!
Read on to find out about a robot friend whose name starts with R…she’s back this week!
Our Coping Skill is Rainbow hunt. By taking time to look around for specific colors, we come back to the present moment. This can be done anytime, anywhere and can also be a gentle distraction technique.
Our Clean Up Song this week is Row, Row, Row Your Boat and we welcomed back Rosie the Robot! She’s made out of cardboard boxes and fits on top of our garbage can. Since the garbage can is on wheels, Rosie can go anywhere in the room to help collect our trash. Thank you, Rosie!
Conversation Starter: Snack Time
Since our Wednesday friends haven’t been here since before Valentine’s Day, we celebrated during Snack Time. R week is the perfect week for our poem: Roses are red, violets are blue, I hope you know how much I love you!
Morning class: Thank you, Everett, for bringing puppy chow (with a very detailed description of how he, his mama and sister made it) and Babybel cheeses…we played with the red wax casing!
Afternoon class: Thank you, Owen, for bringing red peppers, rainbow popsicles and rainbow goldfish! Thank you, Scarlet for adding in some chocolate rocks!
Conversation Starter: Story Time
What did the little girl lose during the night?
Her stuffed dog named Sally! We watch a little girl’s new quilt transform into the backdrop for a dream where she is looking for her lost dog. When she wakes up in the morning, she AND the dog are cozy on the floor wrapped up in her quilt.
We were so lucky to read the story while Grandma Bonnie was finishing sewing our real quilt.
The quilt in this book was a perfect opportunity to practice some bilateral leg tapping. When she was scared of the tunnel we moved our hands on our legs more quickly and when she was even more scared of the forest, we moved our hands as fast as we could! I bet they could show you how they did it!
Conversation Starter: Project Time
Is that real fabric on your rainbow quilt project?
Yes! Grandma Bonnie brought hundreds of squares of fabric for us to use in making our own rainbow quilt creations. Each piece was chosen by the children. How many different colors can you find?
Conversation Starter: Circle Time
Why did Ms Kristin take some of the color scarves away?
If there weren’t any Show and Tell things on a certain color pile, we took the scarf away!
We put them into color groups (red, orange, yellow, green, blue, purple, black, brown, white and pink). Since most items were more than one color, we determined what there was most of. If there wasn’t a clear main color, the person who brought it got to choose which color grouping it went in or if it had multiple colors, it got to go in the rainbow pile! Show and Tell is such a sweet time for children to share what and how they want to.
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