November 10th, 2017
We Remember.
There were a lot of questions about what Remembrance Day is, why it is on November 11th and why there are wars. We also talked about the sacrifice many soldiers have made to keep our country free and to help keep the peace in countries affected by war. We started each day by singing and following the actions to I’ve Got Peace in my Fingers by Susan Salidor and A Song of Peace for Kids by Jack Hartmann.
We read a book called The Peace Book by Todd Parr and listened to a book called What is Peace? by Etan Boritzer, after which we talked about what peace means and how we can keep peace within our own lives as well. There was a great casual discussion amongst themselves about different things that can be considered peaceful, from using manners to helping others, and talking to an adult when you feel sad or angry to being yourself. They were taking turns trying to think of as many as they could, as they got dressed for outside time.
We walked down to the store to drop coins in the bucket for the veterans and to get ourselves some poppies to wear. We learned why we wear poppies to remember the soldiers and a little bit about Flanders Fields.
As a group, we made a four part poppy where each person painted a part of a poppy so that when dry and put side by side all the pieces form a big poppy. We also experimented with different ways to use a toilet paper tube to paint with, as well as making our own free paintings with black and red.
We also made poppy ABB and ABC patterns, sparkly torn paper doves for PEACE, poppy pinwheels, poppies on pipe cleaner stems in a paper cup pot, and used a Q-Tip to paint dots along the lines of our names.
Our letters this week were K and A. We practiced building K with velcro sticks, and A using magnetic letters and finger writing in salt trays. We also talked about the AT and AKE word families after they came up during our letter A word brainstorm.
Some of the nursery rhymes from this week included This Old Man, Wheels on the Bus, and London Bridges.
We came across a set of animal tracks in the snow while we were outside and thought they may be from Santa's reindeer. We Googled these tracks and found out that they were probably from a deer, or reindeer because they look similar. We also saw tire tracks in the field and many of the kids thought that maybe these tracks could have been from Santa's sleigh. Santa must be a crazy sleigh driver because he hasn't been in his sleigh all year so he was here practicing. I love their imaginations at this age!
Everyone also had a ton of fun making HUGE snowballs outside, as well as a snow snail. They made their own ninja course too!
We Remember.
There were a lot of questions about what Remembrance Day is, why it is on November 11th and why there are wars. We also talked about the sacrifice many soldiers have made to keep our country free and to help keep the peace in countries affected by war. We started each day by singing and following the actions to I’ve Got Peace in my Fingers by Susan Salidor and A Song of Peace for Kids by Jack Hartmann.
We read a book called The Peace Book by Todd Parr and listened to a book called What is Peace? by Etan Boritzer, after which we talked about what peace means and how we can keep peace within our own lives as well. There was a great casual discussion amongst themselves about different things that can be considered peaceful, from using manners to helping others, and talking to an adult when you feel sad or angry to being yourself. They were taking turns trying to think of as many as they could, as they got dressed for outside time.
We walked down to the store to drop coins in the bucket for the veterans and to get ourselves some poppies to wear. We learned why we wear poppies to remember the soldiers and a little bit about Flanders Fields.
As a group, we made a four part poppy where each person painted a part of a poppy so that when dry and put side by side all the pieces form a big poppy. We also experimented with different ways to use a toilet paper tube to paint with, as well as making our own free paintings with black and red.
We also made poppy ABB and ABC patterns, sparkly torn paper doves for PEACE, poppy pinwheels, poppies on pipe cleaner stems in a paper cup pot, and used a Q-Tip to paint dots along the lines of our names.
Our letters this week were K and A. We practiced building K with velcro sticks, and A using magnetic letters and finger writing in salt trays. We also talked about the AT and AKE word families after they came up during our letter A word brainstorm.
Some of the nursery rhymes from this week included This Old Man, Wheels on the Bus, and London Bridges.
We came across a set of animal tracks in the snow while we were outside and thought they may be from Santa's reindeer. We Googled these tracks and found out that they were probably from a deer, or reindeer because they look similar. We also saw tire tracks in the field and many of the kids thought that maybe these tracks could have been from Santa's sleigh. Santa must be a crazy sleigh driver because he hasn't been in his sleigh all year so he was here practicing. I love their imaginations at this age!
Everyone also had a ton of fun making HUGE snowballs outside, as well as a snow snail. They made their own ninja course too!
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