totally crafty.
totally not child-centered (all they did was choose a nut with eyes already hot glued on and an acorn cap for the teacher to glue on).
except for the moment they carry their nut buddy around the room and it enters their play.
a
a is for address
again, a skill that we do not expect mastery of.
this is simply planting of the seed. each house has an address. if you have a house, you have an address.
we made our paper houses again (many, many different designs!) with paper shapes and glue.
adding the photo in one of the windows was fun.
then the children had one on one time for me to look up their address and write it down.
at the end of the day we did a little “show and tell” with each project.
z is for zoo
what a week! in the midst of the last days of school and mother’s day prep, we turned our classroom into a zoo (quite fitting, actually!).
children were invited to bring pretend animals from home. this was a favorite of the day. we did show and tell at the first circle time (instead of at the end of the day). we graphed each one on an all-school graph and made a masking tape cage for each type on the floor of the classroom.
this graph is incomplete…we had to move on to another piece of paper and the fish column went off the top!
we had blue water, blocks, and a few big rocks in the tub table. plastic animals were allowed to come swim all week.
i found cheap plastic animals that worked well for making cages so friends could take home their own part of the zoo.
there were some zoos without walls…
some with open gates…
and some had animals that were so wild, the cage bars couldn’t stay up.
h is for hungry animals
during our the very hungry caterpillar week, even the animals that usually live in the block corner got hungry.
they moved to the play-doh table and left instructions.
good thing.
p.s. can you see how our play-doh is all mixed up like the butterfly’s colors at the end of the book?
a is for april fool’s
oh, it was a silly few days (we had to give every class a chance, not just those who actually attended on april 1!)
the teachers looked silly (oh, why didn’t i get a photo of ms. viliya in her pajamas?).
there was bologna and peas waiting at the play-doh table (funny).
the letter of the week turned back to A (funny).
the calendar and the music said it was christmas again (funny).
the paint was edible (but i didn’t tell them that at first. instead i pretended the only funny thing was that we were going to finger paint. then i suddenly licked the paint! oh, wide eyes).
there were fake moustaches (funny)…really these are just strips of fake fur with a roll of masking tape.
but the best joke of all was the coffee cream in the cleaned out glue container (funny!!!).
a.w.e.s.o.m.e.
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