Our children participate in story time everyday before nap, but occasionally we walk to the library for story time. Our librarian is great with the kids and has a large repertoire of fun activities that she leads between reading books. They’re singing and acting out “Row, Row your Boat.”
The children especially enjoy the fingerplays and pretending to be bees buzzing.
The children danced the Hokey Pokey with scarves.
After story time the kids played with bubbles.
Posted in Literature, Reading
On Wednesday after music circle time the children listened to Alexander’s Outing written by Pamela Allen. Alexander’s family goes on a walk, but Alexander doesn’t watch where he’s going and falls down a hole. Several attempts are made to rescue him, but all fail. Finally a little boy spills his drink into the hole and everyone notices that Alexander floats up a bit. In the end everyone pours water into the hole and Alexander eventually floats to the top and hops out.After reading the story the preschoolers went outside to try the experiment for themselves. They put ducks into “holes” (plastic containers) and then poured water in and watched the ducks float to the top.
In the afternoon the children played with colored water and tried the duck experiment again.
Many toys and tools have been set out for the children to explore. At one point they decided the boat needed to be washed.
The misters felt good on a hot day!
A soaker hose was wound through the shrubs above the walkway and play house. Kids tried catching the “rain” and enjoyed getting wet.
Posted in Animals, Literature, Science, Sensory, Water
On Monday the children listened to The Beautiful Dream, a Navajo story about Coyote, Skunk and Porcupine. They found a piece of meat and were undecided about which of them should get to eat it. After one solution didn’t work Porcupine suggests they all take a nap and whoever had the most beautiful dream should get to eat the meat. Porcupine outsmarts them and eats the meat while the other two are sleeping. After listening to the story the children put on masks and pretended to be Coyote.
Posted in Animals, Environments, Literature
Today the preschool class listened to the story All I See is Part of Mewritten by Chara Curtis. As we read the book we took time to look at and talk about all the beautiful illustrations and learn some Chinese vocabulary. The book does a great job promoting children’s self esteem and building self confidence. After we finished reading the children created their own body figures and drew stars, planets, moons, and suns on them.
Posted in Art, Literature, Self Esteem
