Silly Week!

We made it through an active and happy silly week. The children seemed to have fun with our "silly" agenda each day!  Lots of laughter, so much cooperative play, and smiles galore.

 Water play was "silly"-there were holes in some of the bottles.....

 "masks" for costume day...

 Having Silly Week gave us time to role play, wear costumes, think (and play) outside of the box, engage in thoughtful group work, and experiment with a lot of sensory and silly activities.

 This block building was a full morning activity. It orginated as a "cage" (there were a few animals at school on silly day) but eventually the children were engaged in moving blocks from one side of the classroom to the other and stacking, building, stacking, building, and then they carefully climbed inside for a group photo.

Until Next Time,
Michele

A surprise silly windowsill greeted us every morning. (thank you Wanda!)

Wind and Weather Weeks

As promised, this post is a combination of two weeks of "Wind and Weather" in the PreK4 classroom. It's March, and "spring" has been advertised but has not yet made up its mind to stay. Our projects in the classroom for these weeks are bright and "wind powered", including cutting out wind spirals, painting with our breath blowing through a straw, and lots of bubble play. We have begun to graph the weather each day, as the wind brings the weather. We constructed kites that are kid powered and  painted clouds and printed with balloons. A favorite book this week has been Spring  by Kevin Henkes-it's a beautiful reminder of what's wonderful about winter and what to look forward to in Spring.

Until Next Time,
Michele