Monday, January 31, 2011
Martin Luther King/ Color Theme
My approach to discussing MLK day with my 3-5 year olds was to Focus on the book " The Crayon Box that Talked" by Shane DeRolf. The book is perfect for teaching the respect for one another, no matter what color. We also used this day to do a lesson on colors.
* After reading the book " The Crayon Box that Talked" we used the flannel board to retell the story. I cut all of the different crayons from flannel and used this poem.
Wouldn't it be terrible?
Wouldn't it be sad
If just one single color was the color that we had?
If everything was black? or red or blue or green?
If yellow, pink, white, or orange
was all that could be seen?
Can you just imagine how dull the world would be
If just one single color
was all we got to see?
The children took turns placing the crayon color mentioned in the poem onto the flannel board.
* For art we decorated people cut- outs. The children used a Q-tip to paint their person any color they wanted.
They also drew a picture on a paper called " I Have a Dream". I wrote down what their dream was next to their pictures. We hung those up in a quilt pattern ( our letter of the week was Qq).
* Each child was given a picture of a gumball machine, and I precut different colored gumballs using a craft punch. I told the kids to find the color red, and glue it on their gumball machine. We continued on each color.
Great for color regognition and fine motor skills.
* We also read I Like Colors, Brown Bear Brown Bear, A Sweet Smell of Roses, and Little Blue and Little Yellow.
* For science we had some fun with color mixing and predicting what colors would they make. We gave each child a dab of red + white= pink blue+yellow= green red+ blue= purple and yellow + red= orange. We first wrote down their prediction, and then gave them a q-tip to mix the colors.
* After reading the book " The Crayon Box that Talked" we used the flannel board to retell the story. I cut all of the different crayons from flannel and used this poem.
Wouldn't it be terrible?
Wouldn't it be sad
If just one single color was the color that we had?
If everything was black? or red or blue or green?
If yellow, pink, white, or orange
was all that could be seen?
Can you just imagine how dull the world would be
If just one single color
was all we got to see?
The children took turns placing the crayon color mentioned in the poem onto the flannel board.
* For art we decorated people cut- outs. The children used a Q-tip to paint their person any color they wanted.
They also drew a picture on a paper called " I Have a Dream". I wrote down what their dream was next to their pictures. We hung those up in a quilt pattern ( our letter of the week was Qq).
* Each child was given a picture of a gumball machine, and I precut different colored gumballs using a craft punch. I told the kids to find the color red, and glue it on their gumball machine. We continued on each color.
Great for color regognition and fine motor skills.
* We also read I Like Colors, Brown Bear Brown Bear, A Sweet Smell of Roses, and Little Blue and Little Yellow.
* For science we had some fun with color mixing and predicting what colors would they make. We gave each child a dab of red + white= pink blue+yellow= green red+ blue= purple and yellow + red= orange. We first wrote down their prediction, and then gave them a q-tip to mix the colors.
Mama Mia's Pizzaria
Pp is for PIZZA!!! We had so much fun with this unit! Here are some of the fun activities we did.
* We made a class book titled " How to Make a Pizza". Each child drew a picture of a pizza and dictated their recipe for pizza.
* For art we made pizzas, of course. We used paper plates and they painted the edges brown for the crust, and red paint for the sauce. We had red cirlcles for pepperoni, yellow yarn for cheese, and construction paper peppers, sausage, mushrooms, and olives.
* We read The Princess and the Pizza, Curious George and the Pizza Party, Funny Lunch, and Hi, Pizza Man!
* I made a big flannel board pizza with different pizza topping made out of felt.
Piz-za ,Piz-za Let's have pizza
Let's have pizza with cheese on top.
Piz-za, piz-za let's have pizza
_____________ ( child's name) wants pizza with _______ on top.
We did the chant for each child and then the student would place his favorite topping on the pizza.
* Mama Mia's Pizzaria- This was a perfect theme for some excellent dramatic play. We used a table cloth, empty pizza boxes, menus, pretend pizza set, rollers, pizza cutters, aprons and chefs hat. They had a blast taking turns being the customer and the pizza parlor employee.
* Pizza Bingo- I made the pizza bingo set using recycled cereal boxes cut into the shape of a pizza slice and decorated them with paint and construction paper. I used a craft punch to cut out the pepperoni circles.
* We also made a class graph of our favorite pizza toppings.
* We made a class book titled " How to Make a Pizza". Each child drew a picture of a pizza and dictated their recipe for pizza.
* For art we made pizzas, of course. We used paper plates and they painted the edges brown for the crust, and red paint for the sauce. We had red cirlcles for pepperoni, yellow yarn for cheese, and construction paper peppers, sausage, mushrooms, and olives.
* We read The Princess and the Pizza, Curious George and the Pizza Party, Funny Lunch, and Hi, Pizza Man!
* I made a big flannel board pizza with different pizza topping made out of felt.
Piz-za ,Piz-za Let's have pizza
Let's have pizza with cheese on top.
Piz-za, piz-za let's have pizza
_____________ ( child's name) wants pizza with _______ on top.
We did the chant for each child and then the student would place his favorite topping on the pizza.
* Mama Mia's Pizzaria- This was a perfect theme for some excellent dramatic play. We used a table cloth, empty pizza boxes, menus, pretend pizza set, rollers, pizza cutters, aprons and chefs hat. They had a blast taking turns being the customer and the pizza parlor employee.
* Pizza Bingo- I made the pizza bingo set using recycled cereal boxes cut into the shape of a pizza slice and decorated them with paint and construction paper. I used a craft punch to cut out the pepperoni circles.
Saturday, January 15, 2011
Winter Wonderland
With winter in full swing, we started January with some "cool" activities!
We tried some iceskating with paper plates, drawing our numbers and letter using shaving cream "snow". We had the best indoor snowball fight using rolled up white socks.
Art: 1. Popcicle stick snowflakes- paint blue and sprinkle with glitter.
2. Snow man picture- mix equal parts of shaving cream and glue and use to paint a snow man or snow scene.
3. Snowflake Handprint picture- paint fingers white and press down on blue paper in a circle. Add poem: Snowflakes white are dancing down
Dancing Dancing all around.
Each one is different
It's surely true.
Here's one I made
from me to you.
4. Penguin Art- have children rip white paper to make snow drifts. Dip their thumb in white paint to make penguin body. Then in black to make wings on each side of body. After it is dry, kiddos can add orange nose and feet.
Journals: Draw half of a snowman for each child, and ask them to finish the drawing.
Snow is.........
When it snows I like to...........
MATH: 1:1 Correspondance Count out snowflake stickers.
Storytime:
We had a snowman made out of cardboard, and a bunny puppet and used this poem to tell the story.
Chubby Little Snowman
There was a chubby snowman
and he had a carrot nose
along came a bunny
and what do you suppose?
The hungry little bunny was looking for his lunch
He grabbed that snoamans carrot nose
and NIBBLE NIBBLE CRUNCH!
I also made a finger play puppets using an old pair of gloves, and glues felt snowmen on the fingertips.
10 little Snowmen on a hill
freezing cold and standing still.
The sun came out with it's warm rays
and one little snow men melted away.
put down finger as each snowman melts away.
We tried some iceskating with paper plates, drawing our numbers and letter using shaving cream "snow". We had the best indoor snowball fight using rolled up white socks.Art: 1. Popcicle stick snowflakes- paint blue and sprinkle with glitter.
2. Snow man picture- mix equal parts of shaving cream and glue and use to paint a snow man or snow scene.
3. Snowflake Handprint picture- paint fingers white and press down on blue paper in a circle. Add poem: Snowflakes white are dancing down
Dancing Dancing all around.
Each one is different
It's surely true.
Here's one I made
from me to you.
4. Penguin Art- have children rip white paper to make snow drifts. Dip their thumb in white paint to make penguin body. Then in black to make wings on each side of body. After it is dry, kiddos can add orange nose and feet.
Journals: Draw half of a snowman for each child, and ask them to finish the drawing.
Snow is.........
When it snows I like to...........
MATH: 1:1 Correspondance Count out snowflake stickers.
Storytime:
We had a snowman made out of cardboard, and a bunny puppet and used this poem to tell the story.
Chubby Little Snowman
There was a chubby snowman
and he had a carrot nose
along came a bunny
and what do you suppose?
The hungry little bunny was looking for his lunch
He grabbed that snoamans carrot nose
and NIBBLE NIBBLE CRUNCH!
I also made a finger play puppets using an old pair of gloves, and glues felt snowmen on the fingertips.
10 little Snowmen on a hill
freezing cold and standing still.
The sun came out with it's warm rays
and one little snow men melted away.
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