Today was a day that was filled with monkeys. I read a short book about monkeys, but it was our activities that were particularly fun. The children were so engrossed in the activities that they did not get to all of the ones I had planned. I promised them that I would rearrange tomorrow's plans so that they could continue with the activities.
I taught the children how to draw and paint monkeys using shapes and lines that they could draw. The painters in the class were so focused and spent a fair length of time on their art work as they created monkeys.
Do you remember the scuba divers the children made with their faces? Today, I showed them how to make monkeys with their faces. The children who were busy with this activity enjoyed seeing their faces turn into monkey faces on monkey bodies. Some of them were howling with laughter... just like howler monkeys!
If you haven't had a chance to see the children's rainforest bulletin board, you should swing by the classroom before I take it down next week. The animals that the children have made are decorating it.
On Friday, I will be leaving early since I have a flight to catch to Washington DC. Tom and I are spending Easter with our eldest daughter and her husband. I will be out on Monday. I will see everyone on Tuesday.
Tuesday, March 1, 2016
Welcome March
We welcomed March by talking about some of the happenings in March... birthdays and the coming of spring. Today, the children realized that I removed the weather graph and replaced it with a 'weather calendar'. We will be tracking the lion and lamb days for the month of March to see if the poem, March comes in like a lion and out like a lamb, is correct. Since this morning was cold, the children decided that it was a lion day. We decided that the children will use the temperature as the guide for determining lion and lamb days.
Our question of the week was: How do you feel on rainy days?. Most of the children felt happy because they like to splash puddles. They graphed their answers and talked about the data on the graph. Following this, they drew and wrote in their journals. Their task was to draw a picture that matched their sentence: I feel ______ when it rains because ____________. I was very pleased with how the children are drawing with details so that their pictures can ell a story.
The children looked at the unified cubes that some of their peers assembled yesterday to compare the rainfall in deserts, Williamstown and rainforests. When they saw the different lengths of unify cubes (9, 44, 100) they understood how much it rains in the rainforest.
We continued to review the letters XYZ.
Tomorrow's conferences will be in the classroom,
Our question of the week was: How do you feel on rainy days?. Most of the children felt happy because they like to splash puddles. They graphed their answers and talked about the data on the graph. Following this, they drew and wrote in their journals. Their task was to draw a picture that matched their sentence: I feel ______ when it rains because ____________. I was very pleased with how the children are drawing with details so that their pictures can ell a story.
The children looked at the unified cubes that some of their peers assembled yesterday to compare the rainfall in deserts, Williamstown and rainforests. When they saw the different lengths of unify cubes (9, 44, 100) they understood how much it rains in the rainforest.
We continued to review the letters XYZ.
Tomorrow's conferences will be in the classroom,
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