This morning only two children and their moms were able to attend our session, but we had a good time together. After playtime we started the morning by learning about weather. Mitzi showed us some paper plates with drawings of weather symbols for thunderstorms, bright sunshine, and partly cloudy/sunny. Then we headed outside to see what the weather was like and the bright sun nearly blinded us! We did notice some clouds lower in the sky, but they were not near the sun. Inside we chose the "sunny" plate for our weather today.
We talked about the star on the board and the word "star" below it that starts with the letter "s". Then over to the craft table to apply paint to our star wand. As the children finished painting Mitzi sprinkled some "magic stardust" onto the stars to make them sparkle. Then we counted the points on two different stars and found out they each had five points.
It was time for some movement and we again used our Action Box and moved to dance, hop, crawl, bend and jump!
It was then time to sit down and read our only book for today:
Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star illustrated by Annie Kubler.We sang the song first and then found that the book showed us stars shining on different people and animals all over the world. The kids could identify many of the animals in the book, and we learned a few new ones. When we finished we sang the rhyme again. Then back to the table to paint the other side of our star wand and get some "magic dust" on it.
After this we looked up at the ceiling where there was a cluster of stars and learned a new song about twinkling stars that we sang to the tune of "London Bridge is Falling Down" and waved our magic star wands as we sang. When we seemed to know the song fairly well we went into the hallway with our mom and when we came back in and sat down Mitzi turned out the lights and the stars on the ceiling glowed. We sang our two songs to the stars.
Our final activities were to make a starry sky by placing a paper over stars that were taped to the table and doing a crayon rubbing. We also got out a treasure chest and found red, yellow and blue stars inside. We practiced sorting these by color and into piles of large, medium and small. Both children did a great job with these two activities.
Our morning ended with us
eating stars! Mitzi cut these out of cheese for us and had some crackers to go with them if we chose. We also got to take home our wands, star rubbings and a star printout with our second song printed on it
Today's lesson further developed the skills from last week and added
categorizing small, medium and large as well as colors.
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