Lunar New Year
In Circle Time…..
Pretended we were fishes and moved to the Laurie Berkner’s song “Goldfish”
Discussed the upcoming Lunar New Year; different ways it can be celebrated and it’s meaning.
Read some books about Chinese New Year; connecting some of aspects of the holiday to our lives and finding similarities i.e. Sweeping the floors and cleaning for the new year brings good luck. Mrs. Rappaport sweeps the classroom every day, cleaning out the remains of the day to fresh the next. Placing out flowers and eating oranges represents new beginning and growth; we watered our plant and ate cantaloupe for snack.
Read our shape poem together
What did we read?
My First Chinese New Year By: Karen Kats Lanterns and Firecrackers By: Jonny Zucher
Job Helpers
Line Leaders: Christo and Brooke
Plant Helpers: Emmett and Hannah
Loft Closer: Hannah and Henry
Art Projects
The kids painted a rabbit on the easel; experimenting with a kitchen sink brush to create texture. After it was dry, some friends chose to decorate their rabbit with all sorts of different shaped stickers. Great for their fine motor and reinforcing the names of all the shapes.
Paper Chain Dragon
This was a two day project; the first part involved painting the dragon. The dragon was created by placing a paper print out into a ziploc bag, drops of red and gold paint were squeezed inside, and the bag was zipped up. The kids then needed to push down using flats hands to spread and mix the paint, while moving it across the entire surface to cover the page. This encorages them to cross their midlines.
On day two, the body parts of the the dragon were stapled to paper strips. The kids alternated red and yellow paper, looping, and stapling, to create a chain.
Printmaking with Shapes
This week we continued using our foam trays printing with red paint. Everyone made three red prints. One we kept red. The second, was created by placing our foam trays on top of last week’s yellow print, the idea being was to show how mixing the two colors creates orange. The third red print, will be saved for next week when we print using blue. The idea is to create a shape booklet where the kids can see how primary colors can be mixed to create secondary colors.
Sensory Fun
Gold coins, painted gold pasta, chopsticks and tongs, red rice mix, red and yellow Pompoms, and take-out containers.
Action Shots
