We came back to school this morning to find a swampy mess on the playground. It reminded me of my childhood yards in Tidewater after a hard rain. Of course, it didn't take an inch of rain there to make a soupy mess of the grass. All of the children played on the blacktop which makes one realize just a small a space it is!
Brandon was our leader so he led morning circle. After finding the day of the week I pulled a Greg and Steve song called "The Monday Song". It goes through the days of the week adding a different food for each day and building until the children must remember the foods for all seven days. While we were singing I noticed the sun peeking from behind a cloud.
There wasn't a rainbow but I ran to the closet during Show & Share and fetched my prism. We went outside with white paper and I began to tilt the prism to catch the sun's weak rays. There wasn't enough sunshine for a rainbow to appear on my paper but we could see the rainbow colors in the prism. As we re-entered the room the sun began to shine brighter and I was able to hold up the prism in the room and "catch" a rainbow in it again. I explained how the suns rays were bent by water droplets and by the prism to create a rainbow (refraction). This led to a discussion of primary colors and just who ROY G BIV was. I love a teachable moment, even if it does change tomorrow's lesson plans.
Last week we studied the letter D so today we reviewed D words and the -ad words we discovered as a class (bad, cad, dad, fad, had, lad, mad, pad, sad and tad). They colored duck faces last week which we later cut out and glued to paper plates. I punched holes and added elastic so today they could wear their duck faces and dance. First I put on Sandra Boynton's "Be Like a Duck" and then "Six Little Ducks". The children quickly realized they needed to make wings with their arms but when I mentioned ducks have large rears, their stuck out theirs and quacked. The pictures are priceless.
We worked on patterns again today. We began with me creating a pattern using three colors and they had to guess how to finish it. Next I gave them each a pipe cleaner with a partial pattern on it and they had to finish them. It wasn't easy at first but everyone finally got theirs. Next I gave them a plastic bracelet ring and had them make their own bead pattern. Once they filled their ring I closed the clasp and their bracelet was complete. Be sure to ask to see their new jewelry.
Tomorrow a film crew from WBRA - our local PBS channel- will be on campus to film our preschool. Zackary's mom works for PBS and is doing a documentary on different styles of preschools. You may hear about cameras in the classrooms and in Specials.
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