We’ve been talking all week about the Thanksgiving story. The kids loved hearing about the Native Americans so much we let their creativity blossom into many projects that will be coming next week.
This group is really drawn to nature and all things that encompasses, so the Native American people and their lifestyle were a perfect fit for them. We talked about how they used things in nature to create colors in their art. We read The Legend of The Indian Paintbrush by Tomie dePaola. It’s a story about a little boy “Little Gopher” who just wasn’t cut out to be a warrior, but he created beautiful pieces of art on buffalo skins. He had a dream vision that showed him how to recreate the colors of the sunset, he used the Indian paintbrush flowers to get the colors “just right”. He left them on the hill after painting with them, and that’s where they grow every year. They loved this story and decided to be Indians at our feast, they made Indian headdresses using only natural materials and even came-up with their own Indian names.
They made leaf collages to replace our hanging fish in the room, the kids decided it should look more like Fall. This class is so observant, we laugh that there are 16 student teachers in the class with us!
We cooked garbanzo beans to make hummus. We talked about how the beans felt and looked when the beans were first dry. Then they made the hummus and they couldn’t get enough. We even saved some for next week. They love to cook. We made lots of yummy treats for Grandparent’s and Special Friends day next Wednesday.
We had a very successful Science center this week as we have been talking about temperatures changing. They used thermometers in warm, tepid, and cold water to see the change in temperature. We will use this later to watch our temperatures change (now that they are beginning to…) to transfer the learning they already have into more areas.
In the listening center they listened to Goldilocks and The Three Bears. They loved the story so much they wanted to act it out. We had to first decide what to do with everyone; there were only four characters? We came up with a very creative idea…some of the characters would be the forest creatures that Goldilocks and the bears encountered along the story. In the end, the forest creatures made-up the largest group, there were bunnies, squirrels, and mostly howling wolves (of course).
We had a surprise from "Zero the Hero" this week as we celebrated the 50th day of school!! He left the class a special treat while they were at Music, they just missed him! They were so sad to have missed him, I told them we'd keep an eye out for him. I happen to know him very well, and promised them he'd be back!
Please continue with your daily sight word practice, it will enhance their reading so much as well as build confidence!
Dear parents
The children are getting more and more excited about Hebrew.
We now know nine Hebrew letters so our “Alef Bet” song is longer and the children take every opportunity to sing it over and over again.
There is something about attaching words to melody that helps them learn the word no matter how difficult it is.
We also learned twelve Hebrew words that they can use to create simple sentences.
For example: I am a boy/girl (ani yeled/yalda) or I say hello (ani omer shalom)
The children feel so accomplished and proud when they produce a sentence and that gives them incentive to learn more.
We have so much fun at Hebrew time, if you ever want to come and join us please do.
I am at Christie’s class from 12:30 to 1:00 and Liz’s class from 1:10 to 1:40.
Words we know so far: shalom (hello) shabat shalom, boker tov(good morning)
Lehitraot(see you later) naim meod(nice to meet you) ani(me) atah(you /boy)
At (you /girl) omer(says/ boy) omeret(says/ girl) yeled(boy) yaldah(girl),yofi(great)
Have a great weekend and Happy Thanksgiving
Leah
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