i like the experience of having our circle time rug in the center of our room, but the rug alone looked stark and ungrounded.
it didn’t feel practical to keep the canopy and rocking chairs, though. instead i cut strips of the fabric and created the feel of walls around our rug. i’ve been surprised that none of the fabric has been pulled down yet! i will need to take it down for the weekend anyway, but it has been worth the experience of flowing walls.
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!
more photos and memories from our last day of preschool before christmas break.
photo by meg duerksen…for more, click here.
time away from the classroom always leaves me disoriented. stranger yet was leading our sunday school today…in our preschool space…in so many ways it’s nice to merge my church community with my work again.
so, i’ll change the calendar, write 2010 a few times and get ready for a few days of simply remembering who we are together.
if you are a preschool family and you haven’t opened one of these, go check your child’s backpack and don’t read further!
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back when we painted our stars, we also painted these from discount school supply.
then we used the same photos as we use on our picture board.
ms. carol acted as “glitter fairy” one morning and added beautiful glitter designs.
then there was name writing and ornament wrapping. when preschoolers are learning to “write” their names, i always emphasize the importance of scribbling, not perfect letter formation. when children ask for traditional letter formation help, i “write” it first with my fingernail which leaves a little indentation as a guide. but one of my favorite stages is when i call out their name letter by letter and the children make little scribble marks for each letter.
really sweet.
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