Community Helpers Week 1

This was a fun week learning about community helpers that are in our community to help us out.  We talked about numerous jobs in the community, but we focused our fine motor projects on Bakers-making cookies, Doctors-making a doctor kit.  Police Officers-patterning with other community helpers, nurse/doctor, baker, and fire fighters.  The exciting part is our classroom transformation.  Here are some pictures of the kiddos exploring and learning about occupations.  Don't forget Thursday, March 15th,  is Career Dress Up Day.

Thank you everyone who came out on Friday.  This was another great way to Celebrate Youth Art Month.   The Family Art Day was a huge success.  It is always wonderful to see our kiddos and their families.  Here are some of the picture of our Artist. 

Snow much Fun

Not sure if we will have anymore snow this year but we did have some fun with this latest snow fall.  It was the perfect consistency for building snowmen.  We definitely enjoyed the warm winter day outside.

Visual Arts

March is Youth Art Month.  We will be having several activities to celebrate our young artists.  We kicked it off with a week devoted to art.  

It was a wonderful week of exploring art mediums.  On Monday, we watercolored on special watercolor paper.  It is wonderful how the colors pop off the paper.

On Tuesday, we used paper shapes and paper strips to create a geometric, primary colored collage.  The strips of paper were great to make things pop off the paper and transform our 2 dimensional art to 3 dimensional.

Wednesday was tissue paper art day.  Wow, they made gorgeous art work. 

Thursday we created wire sculptures with bead work.

 All these works will be beautifully displayed at the Edgerton Community Hospital starting Friday, March 9th, in the afternoon.  On Thursday, March 15th Ms. Kim and I will be at the Hospital from 5-6:30 PM.

Barnyard Buddies

This week "on the farm", was an Adventure.  We learned about Charlie Rooster, Fat Percy Pig and Johnny Mouse and their adventures.  We talked about how friends enjoy each others company and that we are still friends when we chose different activities. 

Our farm friends also taught us about using our imaginations to play.  This is an important skill for children of all ages.  Remember to also teach the truth and a story.  This can be a hard line to tote at times...

During class we are working on our letter names and their sounds.  Please feel free to play and talk about letters during your daily routines.  On the last half page news letter I also put some great information on the back side.  It had hand grip and ways to increase hand strength. 

Friendship

This week we had a lovely time talking about Friendship and creating things made with love.  Hope you received your handprint heart tree, made with love for you Happy Valentines Day!!  Enjoy all the thought and creativity put into our Mailboxes.  All the kiddos were so proud of their creations. 

Pets

Our pet unit has been our theme for our dramatic play with a vet clinic and pet store.  We talked about different pets people have and some are reptiles, fish, mammals.  We made a a cat our of multiple parts.  An animal sort that differentiated between things for dog and things for cats.  We worked really hard to create our hamsters a home.  To finish up the week we Q-tip painted an iguana.

Another really cool part of this week is the the classroom was rearranged.  We flip flopped all the centers around to change up our toys, centers and fun.  If you notice in the pictures our Ipad center is now on the carpet area, where the kiddos have to lay on their bellies.  This builds core strength and proper posture.

OpPoSiTes

It was a fun week of Opposites.  We said, "Good Bye," at the start of class and talked about many opposites.  Have fun at home having an opposite party.  Wear your pajamas during the day, and have dinner for supper or breakfast for dinner.  The kiddos will love it.  We made some beautiful paintings in black and white that have been decorating our room.