During circle time we exchanged our views on the planet Earth, confessed why we love it so much :) and discussed various things to protect our environment. Ideas regarding keeping it clean, recycling things, came up. Soon we got involved in doing many Earth day projects.
Our most favorite one was making the grass personalities! We made them reusing recycled materials like nylon stockings and yogurt cups (thanks to teacher Janet for the stockings and thank you to parents and other school staff for saving yogurt cups).
Adding grass seeds on the bottom and then filling it to the brim with soil...
Adding eyes...
Rolling for water...
We also made our own Earth from blue and green Play-dough and discovered that blue stands for water and green for land...
It was wonderful to see them make it in their own varied styles!
J talking about his little world!
J admiring his planet Earth!
B, W, and P working hard to make the world like a ball :)
C using the bottom of the bowl to make a 2 dimensional planet...
We also did some related coloring...
Our cooking project was making our own edible Earth using plain rice cakes, grapes, blueberry jam, and cream cheese.
Finally, our lovely display...friends loved to go and see it again and again and check if their work was properly kept...
Reviewing and writing letters....
Picking letters randomly from the bowl and placing them on the matching letter. This activity helped us use our long term memories to recall and guess the letters we had been practicing....
Writing station was where they really felt competent as they nailed letters one by one...
We also worked to put together a classroom picture frame from a recycled cake box cover. We used letter pieces in shape of puzzles and connected the letters of our name. This helped us with letter recognition as well as our name spellings.
Other highlights of the week...
It's summer and kids are getting in the mood to camp outside!
Other reviewing alphabet activities...
J sharing about spring time and honeybees...
See you'll around!
Hugs,
Rashida.
