Safety First!

We had a busy and successful safety week this week! The children enjoyed painting with fire trucks, making their own badges, and constructing a "helper" pet with collage materials. We wrote a safety book, and each child was able to articulate a safety rule and illustrate it. Somehow on the rug a long line of dinosaurs was cooperatively and quietly draped with jewelry. So decorative!
We had a visit from a father who is a canine police officer, and the children had wonderful questions and comments for him. He brought his canine helper, and we watched him in action! Very Intent!
Thursday was about Peace in our classroom. We made a pizza "pie" for snack, working with peaceful hands, and had a discussion about what makes "peace pie" in the classroom, and what makes "trouble pie" in our classroom. The children noticed that there were more words for the peace pie than the trouble pie (yay). We'll be talking more about this topic as the days go by.
At the end of the week last week a few of the four year olds were invited into the 2/3's classroom to talk about dinosaurs. We shared our dinosaur tales, and made dino art. We are going to visit again soon, as we had a very nice visit and made some new friends.
Until Next Time,
Michele

We Are the Dinosaurs!

Dinosaurs are a very exciting and engaging theme for preK children! We found dinosaurs in our bean table, collaged with dinosaurs, had blocks and dinosaurs at a building table, and made dinosaur tracks with paint and our plastic dinosaur friends. The children marched and marched to the dinosaur march song, and enjoyed many long moments with dinosaur books, both fictional and non-fictional. We wrote our own "dinosaur travel" books with a teacher, and each child told an original story about a dinosaur, and illustrated it.
School Picture Day generated a lot of play with chairs and posing and cameras, and I couldn't help but record the goings on. The children seemed to enjoy the actual picture taking in the library, there were lots of smiles and requests to "go again".
We had a mom visit, cooking apple crisp, and we cut open a pumpkin to count the seeds, and roasted both the seeds and the pumpkin to taste at snack time. Pumpkin is delicious, with just a little butter!
Until Next Time,
Michele