Another snow day made this a short week. Somehow we managed to have a lot of fun!
Theme: Bugs, Bugs, Bugs!
Classical composer: Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov (1844-1908) was a Russian composer of the Romantic Period. Rimsky-Korsakov wrote operas, choral music, chamber music, and works for piano. One of his most famous pieces is the “Flight of the Bumblebee”, from the opera
Tsar Saltan. In the opera, this music is played when a prince disguises himself as bee.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y41DykcpgRg
Spanish: la abeja (bee), la miel (honey), la hormiga (ant), la mosca (fly)
Special Guest: Miss Gretchen, Hamed’s mom, treated us to a wonderful presentation on healthy teeth. The children learned about “sugar bugs” and how these little critters can get into our teeth and create nasty cavities. Miss Gretchen counted teeth to make sure the kids all had 20 and introduced us to her saliva spitting dragon and her wonderful horse friend with a full set of 30 teeth who helped demonstrate the correct brushing techniques. Thanks for all the great information and the WONDERFUL dental health bags.
Theme: This is the first week of our two-week bug unit.
We focused specifically on bees and ants so far. For bumblebee day we had fun talking about bees and their jobs. We looked at the parts of a bee and labeled them with the correct terms, including the head, thorax and abdomen. The children found their body parts that were similar (our thoracic cavity contains the heart and lungs) and noticed the distinct differences. We made cute, multi-media bumblebees and the children loved using them to interpret music, such as Rimsky-Korsakov’s “Flight of the Bumblebee” and other activity songs.
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Table Activities: life-like plastic bugs (a little too lifelike in some instances!), real bugs in resin with magnifying glasses, felt bugs and felt boards, bean sensory boxes full of bugs, ink stampers
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Music: Activity songs included: “Bringing Home a Baby Bumblebee”, “The Fuzzy Little Bumblebee” (tune of “Itsy Bitsy Spider”), “The Ants Go Marching”. We also used our bodies to be bees and flew around to “Flight of the Bumblebee” without being space-invaders!
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Art: Miss Cristina worked with the children this week on pencil drawing specific shapes, then combining those shapes to make a representational drawing or a figure. The children looked at a pencil drawing by Rembrandt and took turns drawing on the example board before creating their own pictures.
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Math, Handwriting and Reading: For math we used our Number Eating Alligators and the 100s chart. The children took turns circling two numbers on the chart and then all the children would hold up their alligators to eat the greatest numbers. They are so good at it and now can read the number sentences with great success.
For reading the children used a fun letter game called What’s Gnu to reveal two consonants. They identified the letter names, sounds, observed the stroke order modeled by the teacher, and one of the groups even added vowels to create three letter words. They surprised the teacher more than once with the words they chose to create!
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Storybooks: The Bumblebee Sweater, Dreadilocks and the Three Slugs, Slugs in Love (book on CD)
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Free-Play Fun: Bumblebee craft and songs (they requested these multiple times during free-time!), trains, cars and tracks, wooden blocks, reading loft, playing chase (with no touching or “space invaders”…they’re getting pretty good at this!).
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Theme: This is the first week of our two-week bug unit.
We focused specifically on bees and ants so far. For bumblebee day we had fun talking about bees and their jobs. We looked at the parts of a bee and labeled them with the correct terms, including the head, thorax and abdomen. The children found their body parts that were similar (our thoracic cavity contains the heart and lungs) and noticed the distinct differences. We made cute, multi-media bumblebees and the children loved using them to interpret music, such as Rimsky-Korsakov’s “Flight of the Bumblebee” and other activity songs. 
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Table Activities: life-like plastic bugs (a little too lifelike in some instances!), real bugs in resin with magnifying glasses, felt bugs and felt boards, bean sensory boxes full of bugs, ink stampers
.
Music: Activity songs included: “Bringing Home a Baby Bumblebee”, “The Fuzzy Little Bumblebee” (tune of “Itsy Bitsy Spider”), “The Ants Go Marching”. We also used our bodies to be bees and flew around to “Flight of the Bumblebee” without being space-invaders!
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Art: Miss Cristina worked with the children this week on pencil drawing specific shapes, then combining those shapes to make a representational drawing or a figure. The children looked at a pencil drawing by Rembrandt and took turns drawing on the example board before creating their own pictures.
.
Math, Handwriting and Reading: For math we used our Number Eating Alligators and the 100s chart. The children took turns circling two numbers on the chart and then all the children would hold up their alligators to eat the greatest numbers. They are so good at it and now can read the number sentences with great success.
For reading the children used a fun letter game called What’s Gnu to reveal two consonants. They identified the letter names, sounds, observed the stroke order modeled by the teacher, and one of the groups even added vowels to create three letter words. They surprised the teacher more than once with the words they chose to create!
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Storybooks: The Bumblebee Sweater, Dreadilocks and the Three Slugs, Slugs in Love (book on CD)
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Free-Play Fun: Bumblebee craft and songs (they requested these multiple times during free-time!), trains, cars and tracks, wooden blocks, reading loft, playing chase (with no touching or “space invaders”…they’re getting pretty good at this!).
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