We started the week by gluing ovals onto a large oval! We encourage the children to glue with control using "little dots of glue, whoo!"
On Wednesday, Mr. Dan from Animal House visited and brought some of his favorite pets. The creatures included a boa constrictor, a ferret, a guinea pig, and a rex rabbit. The children delighted in touching these interesting animals.
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| The boa constrictor is cold blooded and has a scaly skin. |
The ferret has warm blood, fur, and can make his body very flat.
The guinea pig has fur, is warm blooded, and makes a wonderful pet!
The rabbit has fur and he was shedding his summer coat and a thicker winter coat was growing in.
We created a spider by stapling two ovals together. We tore black paper to create eight legs. Tearing is a pre-scissor skill and helps the children work their hands and fingers in opposition.
We glued on googly eyes or sticker eyes.
And we stapled the legs onto the abdomen of the spider. We counted how many legs we had stapled in English and in Spanish.
The children named their spiders and told the teachers what they were doing.
They are hanging in the classroom!
They are hanging in the classroom!
Tearing paper and gluing it to a banner was an exploratorium activity this past week. The teachers cut this paper to a create a tree for the classroom bulletin board.
On Thursday, Upper Division students from the Universal Language club read Gus Gets Scared by Frank Remkiewicz and a non-fiction book, Bat by Deborah Gibson to us in the library.
Play dough was a center time activity. One of the children created a spider and counted the number of legs he had added.
Building with tree blocks, spiders, and snakes was an activity in the exploratorium.
We visited Nurse Confident in her office on Thursday.
At center time on Thursday, we played the Snail Game with one of the Dads.
