Nursery Notes and This Week in the Fours Jan. 13, 2012
In Music with Marcy we played the metal triangle. We learned that the lighter you tap, the better it sounds!
We read The Mitten by Jan Brett. The children decorated their own mittens and gave the teachers words to describe how their mittens feel. It is all on the hall bulletin board, and the fours are quite proud of their work.
While reading the book, we used a parachute to create a mitten that the children could climb into one by one to get warm. We made a list of how they felt inside the "mitten". They said comfy, cozy, snug, warm, stuffed, crowded and squished!
For share time, Leo brought in seeds from a pod. The class guessed how many seeds were in the container. The guesses went from 10 to 100. There were 31 seeds and Jared guessed the closest, with 26. The children are getting better at "guesstimating"!
Monday is Martin Luther King Day, and we have been reading all about what a great man he was. We read about the speech he made about freedom and how he said, "I have a dream...".The children painted a blue sky, put their hand prints on it and told us what their dreams are for the world. They cut out their own clouds and the teachers wrote their words on them. They are in the hallway for all to see.
One of the books we read in conjunction with this theme is What If the Zebras Lost Their Stripes by John Reitano. It's a wonderful story of what might happen if some zebras lost their black stripes and some lost their white. Ask your child to tell you about it.
Nature came with a tortoise named Egor, a tree frog who eats bugs and has sticky feet, and a corn snake who smells with his tongue and eats only once a week! Andrew from the Nature Center also brought our favorite - a chinchilla whose name is ChiChi who has big ears and eyes to see, since she is nocturnal. The class agreed that she has the softest coat ever.
We celebrated Shabbat - feel better Emma!
Shabbat Shalom! See you on Tuesday!
Joyce and Tara
