Shapes
We talked about geometric shapes this week. The children made pictures with shapes, painted with geometric-shaped sponges, made pictures of houses using geometric shapes, practiced their cutting skills with shapes, and colored shapes. Even our Circle Time friends were shapes!
The children enjoyed the following poems so much that I read them on many days. Each day more children remembered the names of the shapes (Suzy Circle, Tommy Triangle, Sammy Square, etc.) and called out the names. Your child may enjoy reading these poems with you.
In a prior post, you have seen Donald Duck and Daisy Duck who live in their trash cans. Daisy has been asking for her mother and the children were surprised when Daisy’s mother, Mama Duck arrived in her much larger trash can. The children will have to wait for Donald’s parent to arrive until I acquire another large trash can, but don’t tell the children that is the reason.
Does your child bring home these “spikey balls” from the MWS playground? This year has provided a bumper crop of them and the children love to collect them. I have always wondered what kind of tree this is and brought these home for my husband to look up in his tree identification book. They are the seed pods of a Sweet Gum tree. When I saw all the residue on the counter that fell out of the pods, I thought of the children’s coat pockets with the residue in them.
In addition to many activities with geometric shapes, the children may have told you about projects that did not go home. They are working hard on projects that I cannot tell you about but will eventually be going home for you to enjoy.
The children have all taken home an MWS bag to be used for transporting their ‘snow clothes’ back and forth each day when the truly winter weather arrives. The diagram above is stapled onto the bag as a reminder of the order of dressing. When the time comes for dressing in snow clothes, the children will each have a large size card with the illustration to help them dress. Please practice dressing in this order at home. We always tell the children that mittens have to go on last because you need your hands for everything else. Even now, while they are only wearing a (1) jacket, (2) hat, and (3) mittens, practice putting them on in that order. It is also a good idea to try on winter mittens while wearing the winter coat. Often, mittens that have a long, tight cuff do not stay on the children’s hands because the cuff of the jacket sleeve pushes it off.