Hi JK parents!
We were so lucky to have Myraa's mom Sumi come to share with us a wonderful story and video, along with snack, treat and art project about Diwali. The children created fire works paintings using straws taped together and tempera paint. We learned about the celebration and enjoyed seeing their pretty dresses and experiencing the customary treats! The children loved it.
We practiced categorizing different items again by size, color, and even warm and cool colors with pom pons.
We played a counting game with Pete the Cat and wrote and ordered numbers, again working on the one to one correspondence.
Fine Motor:
The children created paintings beginning with pastels and finishing with water colors to produce "Starry Night" as we learned about the great artist Van Gogh. They experimented with the different illuminations the starts show on the painting and how the town at the bottom of the page looks so dark but the stars shine so brightly!
We all completed Sunflower Observation Drawings looking at live sunflowers and recreating the image with colored pencils. The children were amazing capturing the images and even adding multiple vases to their drawings.
Catching snowflakes on our tongue!
Literacy:
We talked about beginning and ending sounds in words and matched upper and lower case letters in our literacy center. We talked about curvy versus "stick" or straight letters. We identified them and took turns writing them on the white board.
Some groups practiced their popcorn words, spelling them out and them jumping up to pop as we spelled each word.
We read Katie and the Sunflowers (along with many other art and painting books) and talked about how fun it would be if we could actually step inside a painting. The little girl finds a treasure and gets to keep some of the gold
Social Emotional:
We talked about the approaching holiday and all we have to be thankful for. We are truly all very fortunate to have such a wonderful experience this year. We will be preparing for Grandparent's and Special Friend's Day next week.
Have a great weekend! We are celebrating Lila's birthday at a trampoline park tonight. She is now 10. She was just four it seems a few days ago so I am trying to embrace her growing up but it's so hard!
Ms. Massey
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