Hello Spoede Pre-K Families,
We finished up our Veterans Day/America Unit this week!
Monday- We colored reproducible books thanking the Veterans for their service. We also made red, white and blue hand print painted flags with glue and glitter stars and red painted craft sticks for flag poles. The project was completed by the students in three stages. We also made patriotic red, white and blue windsocks that looked like flags. We glued die cut white stars onto blue paper and rolled it into a tube shape and glued it together. We then glued red and white cray paper strips to the bottom of the windsock for the stripes. We also made Veterans Day Crowns to wear at the Parade and completed Veterans themed patterning activity.
Tuesday- Veterans Day was very exciting. We made bald eagles using fork painting to make the head look like feathers. (Two Day Project) We made American flags using red, white, and blue tissue paper squares (Two Day Project). We did Veterans Day patterning and made some Thank You Veterans coloring sheets for cards. Ms. Levise glue gunned the red painted sticks onto the Handprint Flags so we could wave then during the Veterans Parade. We went to the Veterans Day parade wearing our Thank You Veterans Crowns, waving our Windsocks and Handprint flags. We ended the day marching and singing in music with Ms. Li. In one activity, the kids marched around the room based on the color they were wearing. Ms. Li also brought her stretchy Elastic Tension rope ring for a cooperative movement to music activity.
Wednesday- Learned the Letter O and Q and made them on the carpet with two big curves (for the O) and two big curves and a little line (for the Q). We worked in our Handwriting without Tears workbooks on the letters O and Q. We completed our fork painted Bald Eagles by adding eyes, a beak and a mouth, drawing on chest feathers. We also finished our American Flags using red white and blue tissue paper squares and glue.
Thursday- We started our day with a "Morning Carpet share"... where each student has a chance to share an answer to a question. Our Westminster Service Student was there so we did a "get to know you question". "What do you like to play or do outside? First, say your name!" (I modeled by saying, "My name is Ms. Davenport and I like to watch my students play at recess outside".) We passed Mable, the elephant around to know whose turn it was to speak. We worked on our carpet time rules. (Eyes are watching, Ears are Listening, Voice is quiet, Body Calm.) We dot painted the letters Q and O. We painted fireworks with red and blue paint, using toilet paper rolls and adding glitter at the end. We also took photos of the kids pointing at the sky to add to the fireworks pictures after they dried. The project was completed on paper that says "Let the fireworks light up your life!" Our Firework pictures are on a bulletin board outside our Pre-K Room. I will send you a picture of the bulletin board on Monday.
Next week we will start our Thanksgiving unit! On Friday we will have our own little Thanksgiving party with our buddies, making feathers to add to our turkey. The feathers will have pictures and words to represent things the Pre-K kids and 4th grade buddies are thankful for. We will put our turkey and its new feathers out in the hallway and keep it up through the winter holidays. I will be sending home a permission slip on Monday to ask permission to serve popcorn on Friday for our Buddy Thanksgiving.
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Look and see all of the fun things we did this week!
Working on Thank You to Veterans reproducible books!
Making American Flags with tissue paper squares
Impromptu Practicing our greeting skills with a visitor to Pre-K at carpet time.
Making the Uppercase Letter O with two big curves and Q with two big curves and a little line. . Also used creativity to make the letters S and the number 3, etc.
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Finishing our American Flags with red, white, and blue Tissue Paper squares
Finishing our fork painted Bald Eagles by adding the eyes, nose, and mouth.
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