This week we are discussing our 5 senses! We are learning about our: sight, hearing, taste, smell and touch. So far we have learned about sight using the book called Mouse Paint. As the mice came through the book they came to three different colors: yellow, red and blue. Doing so they slowly start mixing the colors to create new colors. Reading this book we used our sight to see the different colors. Seeing that we saw three colors we created mouse track pictures using Q-tips to paint with. As they were creating their mouse tracks some of the kids noticed that when the tracks would cross they would be creating the colors we saw in the book. (Ex. when the blue mouse crossed the yellow mouse's path it turned green) Great observation by using our sight!!
On Tuesday, we were using our sense of touch! We looked at things that we can feel reading out book Our Five Senses. We then created our hand to represent our different textures that we can touch. The students did a great job listening to directions putting these hands together. We went piece by piece so they are showing their abilities to follow directions! :) We have the following on the hand: hard (gold plastic coin), soft (puff ball), sticky (tape) and smooth (a piece of a plastic dixie cup).
On Tuesday, we were using our sense of touch! We looked at things that we can feel reading out book Our Five Senses. We then created our hand to represent our different textures that we can touch. The students did a great job listening to directions putting these hands together. We went piece by piece so they are showing their abilities to follow directions! :) We have the following on the hand: hard (gold plastic coin), soft (puff ball), sticky (tape) and smooth (a piece of a plastic dixie cup).
On Wednesday, we were learning about our senses of taste and smell. We created "jello names" today and the kids were beyond excited to get started. All you need if you want to create these at home you will need: paper, Elmer's glue and jello powder. You write what you want to write in the glue on the paper, then take a spoon and have the child spoon the jello over the glue. As they watch the powder change from dull to a vibrant color within seconds. Then now that they are dry they are our scratch and sniffs that the kids will be able to show you when they come home.
On Thursday, we had a busy but productive day. We did our final sense of hearing and played with some easter eggs and tried to guess what was in the easter eggs. Once we had a few guesses we counted to three and then opened it to faces that were surprised at what it was. The most common guess was jelly beans! :) Then we worked on our Five Senses Hearing sheet where we had to decide what things we could hear, and then color those things - crossing out the ones we cannot hear. Today we also learned that to make our coloring better and to make our pictures more colorful we need to use AT LEAST 5 colors when coloring. The kids before I could say anything were already starting to count out the crayons to make sure they had those FIVE different colors. I am so proud of all of my 4K students this year they are already growing so much!! Then I decided to have a little fun learning about the formation of our letter Cc. I made gak today to work on our formation of the letter Cc and work with our hands a bit -- (liquid starch and Elmer's glue). We worked on rolling it out with our hands and creating the letter Cc and then they got 1 minute of fun time with it in groups of four. Not everyone got to do today but know that they will on Monday if not today.
As well all week we have been working on our letter Cc! We have worked on forming our letter C, coloring things that begin with C, learning the sound of C and being able to identify the lower and uppercase letter Cc. The students are working very hard getting their work done and working on the formation of all of their letters. This week we created a letter C Cat - C is for Cat.
On Thursday, we had a busy but productive day. We did our final sense of hearing and played with some easter eggs and tried to guess what was in the easter eggs. Once we had a few guesses we counted to three and then opened it to faces that were surprised at what it was. The most common guess was jelly beans! :) Then we worked on our Five Senses Hearing sheet where we had to decide what things we could hear, and then color those things - crossing out the ones we cannot hear. Today we also learned that to make our coloring better and to make our pictures more colorful we need to use AT LEAST 5 colors when coloring. The kids before I could say anything were already starting to count out the crayons to make sure they had those FIVE different colors. I am so proud of all of my 4K students this year they are already growing so much!! Then I decided to have a little fun learning about the formation of our letter Cc. I made gak today to work on our formation of the letter Cc and work with our hands a bit -- (liquid starch and Elmer's glue). We worked on rolling it out with our hands and creating the letter Cc and then they got 1 minute of fun time with it in groups of four. Not everyone got to do today but know that they will on Monday if not today.
As well all week we have been working on our letter Cc! We have worked on forming our letter C, coloring things that begin with C, learning the sound of C and being able to identify the lower and uppercase letter Cc. The students are working very hard getting their work done and working on the formation of all of their letters. This week we created a letter C Cat - C is for Cat.
As you see the last three pictures of are "new" things in our classroom. Firs off I have printed off pictures of the kitchen area for the students to know how to properly put things away nicely. There are two baskets labeled food and labeled dishes. The kids know what to put in what basket which is great and know having the pictures of where to put things has really helped them be more organized when cleaning up. Our favorite phrase in 4K lately is "TEAM WORK" - great conflict resolution! :) As well the dots on the floor leading from our door through our classroom are number dots - 1 to 16. When lining up the students must pick and number and stand on it; this creates a straighter line but also keeps them in their own space.