Reviewing Red and beginning Yellow!

We reviewed red using food!
On Thursday, we made a face out of different red fruits. We used red apple, red cactus fruit, and red grapes.

On Friday, we made red raspberry jello with red raspberries inside. We were amazed to see the liquid jello turn into a solid food.

We then began to learn yellow on monday. We made yellow collage. We finger painted with yellow paint. We also made yellow goop by ourselves. We learned about the sense of feel and then we went to use our hands and sense of feeling to make goop.

We also reviewed our five senses this week and began to discuss our emotions. We practice making a happy face, sad face, and upset face.

The Five Senses

We reviewed the parts of the face today and began to discuss the different jobs they have.
We learned that eyes see, our nose smells, our mouth tastes, and our ears hear.

We used our eyes to see each other.

We used our nose to smell cinnoman, vanilla, and pine cones.

We used our mouth to taste a jelly bean.

We used our ears to hear Morah whisper into our ears.

Learning about our Face

This week, we started a two new topics.

We learned about being a good friend and how good friends take turns. We practice asking our puppet friends Benny and Leah for turns with the toy. We thought the puppets were funny and really liked saying Hi! to them and sharing the ball together.

We also began to learn our topic of "All about Me." In this topic, we will be learning about our body parts, our feelings, senses, and family. We began with reviewing the parts of the face. Some of us knew the names of parts of the face in Russian and now know them in English. From here, we are going to learn about using our senses and about understanding how our friends feel by their facial expressions.

For our face art, we glued down googly eyes, a pompom nose, a red pipe cleaner for a mouth, and then chose a crayon to color our hair.

That's a lot of dishes to wash!

Ice cream soup! 

Good Friends

Today, we began to learn about being a good friend. We met two puppet friends, Leah and Benny. They showed us how when they want a turn for a toy, they say "please can I have a turn?" We then took turns asking Benny and Leah for a turn with their ball. We used language according to our ability. So our words varied from "please" please have" to "please can I have?"

We are also putting a big emphasis on understanding the concept of 'taking turns' while playing. We have been teaching the children to ask each other, "Please can I have ...?" or "Please have?" The other child then answers, "yes" and shares the toy, OR says "soon." Then either with morah's help and a timer, the child waits for a turn or they play with something else while waiting for a turn. We will be sending home a copy of special turn taking book that we use in school. 
We would love for you to use the same language and strategies at home.

Thank you for your help ;)

Discovering Fall

This week we discussed the weather change. We discussed how the weather got cold and the leaves are changing colors. We learned that the trees are going to sleep now that it's the winter. We pretended to be trees and stretched out our arms. We then shook our hands as leaves and then dropped them to the ground. Then we pretended to be sleeping trees. We also put leaves on a paper tree with paper leaves. We then practice to be wind and blew all the leaves off the tree.

We then glued different color leaves onto a picture of a tree. You can find our Fall art on the hall bulletin board.

We did a two-step process art collage using red. We cut red paper with scissors and then we glued it on to white paper.

Thank you parents who sent in red vegetables! We shared them on Thursday and ate them by lunch.

On Friday, we had an extra long free play and it gave the children a chance to do a lot of imagination play and experimenting.

Busier kitchen than most!

A momma princess

Under the table. "its a house/doma, Morah!" And as you can see, Elana is wearing one of our winter hats from the dramatic play center.

Ice cream soup! a favorite!

Fall discovery