This week we talked about snow. We read several books about snow, listened to a song called Snowflakes and pretended to be snowflakes while the music played in the background. We have white snow (potato flakes) in our sensory tub and white, peppermint scented, glittery homemade play dough that we can use to make our own snowmen! We also have lots of new books in our classroom library on winter!
On Tuesday the kids were so excited to share their favorite Christmas gifts. During activity time some of them wanted to play with their gifts.
Mrs. Jenkins had the kids up and moving doing the Hokey Pokey as well as learning some new songs during music time.
We worked on our fine motor skills this week by using glitter glue and jewels to make snowflakes which we then put in our Maple Tree by the door. We also developed strenth in our hands by uising punchers to make snowflakes and circles. Some of the circles turned out to be crescents, and half circles. The kids enjoyed expanding their vocabulary with these new shape words.
We used coffee filters to make snowflakes on Wednesday. Besides being fun, using the scissors was developing our fine motor skills and hand/eye coordination. The best part was opening the filters to see what our snowflakes looked like!
We also had a special snack of snowflake pretzels and oranges.
Zoefii was "Maple Leaf of the Week" . On Tuesday she had fun wearing her Maple Leaf crown, on Wednesday she brought in her poster and shared it with all her friends and on Thursday she brought in a special treat to celebrate her birthday with the class. It was delicious...homemade chocolate chip bars....yum!! (Thanks Zoefii!!) Happy 4th birthday!!
Then we used acrylic paints and painted on black canvas to create out own outer space scenes.
Happy 2016!!
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