Rainbow Fish
We arrived at school on Monday following our first snowfall of the season. The playground was beautiful at 7:30am before anyone walked onto the snow. The children are working on their independence as they put on their snow clothes each day and everyone had fun in the snow. Unfortunately, I expect there to be a lot of mud after this coming weekend’s rain storm.
All week we were busy with activities with Rainbow Fish and all of his friends in the sea. Many activities are pictured below and the art projects will be proudly displayed at the MWS Art Show on Saturday, January 27. I hope you will be able to come and see them.
On Wednesday, our cooking day, Mrs. Chen asked me what we are going to cook. When I told her “We’re making biscuits shaped like fish”, she remarked “Why don’t you make rainbow fish?” I had never thought of that. After we made the biscuit dough, I sprinkled a little food coloring and here is the result. Thank you, Mrs. Chen.
For snack on Thursday, everyone was given a little cup which contained 1 mini carrot and some raisins and goldfish. The children were told to make a snowman on the white plates before eating the food. Here they are.
Last week I saw a video of a teacher and child sitting at a table with these shapes on the table. The teacher was creating patterns by moving her actual hands on the shapes while the child watched. The child then copied the teacher.
I recreated the shapes using felt and introduced the activity this week. It was interesting to see how the children were able to do this. I learned that with young children, I have to start slow with few movements and add more as the children mature.