We went to the Getty Museum for our field trip so it was fun to celebrate art today. Carleton put a play list together for me of famous classical music pieces to welcome the kids and I played it throughout class.
Circle Time. For homefun, the kids put together and painted different wooden projects (related to transportation). I bought them for $1 at Michaels. Apollo loves them-we've put together a lot-Annie just did her first one this week (a monster truck). The kids did a great job and were so proud.
Art Time. James Pollock Masterpieces. I Googled images of Pollock's splatter paint style (a different one for each child) since this is the easiest famous artwork that can be copied by kiddos. Each child brought a pillowcase and I let them go to town with fabric paint and a little picture of their art to imitate.
The kids really got into it and had fun. Their "masterpieces" actually turned out really cool.
Academic Time. Van Gough "Still Life". I put fruit on a pretty platter and had the kids draw it. Click on the image to go to the site.
I had them draw their "still life" in the frame and put a big and little z in the lines below for them to copy.
Math time. Pablo Picasso collage. The kids cut out six shells and glued them onto a paper bag (sand). Using scissors has been a hard skill for some of the kids to master but they are so happy and proud when they get it. They turned out cute. Click on the image below to print.
Snack and Story. We made guacamole (green for St. Patty's) and ate it with chips. I had the best guacamole while watching a basketball game the other day at someone's house. The guy (sorry it's not the most exact recipe) had fresh avocados, 1 Tb sour cream, a little salsa, and some garlic. Soooo yummy. For our story we read Imagine a Night. The artwork is beautiful. It was the first book I ever bought Apollo.
Science Experiment. We put a little tree in a solution and it's supposed to grow crystals over time so we'll check it out again next week (it already looks cool). They have a bunch of little experiments at the Dollar Tree right now for kids.
Music Time. We danced to Beethoven's 5th symphony and other songs the kids can move to.
Games. Mother May I. So funny to play with this age of kids. So so cute. My mom played this game with us as children. The game master tells one of the kids (they take turns) to take 3 giant steps forward (or 2 leaps, or 5 baby steps etc.) and they say "Mother May I" to which I would reply "Yes, you may". If they forget to say "mother may I" they have to go all the way back. The first to make it to the Game Master (me today) wins.
Random Thoughts.
Grant: As always, he is such a champion and builder-upper of other people. He always encourages his friends; he looked adorable in his outfit!! Krista is so great about putting a cute outfit to match the theme or celebrate the holiday; he kept calling the guacamole different things like macamole; he enjoys the outdoors.
Jonathan wasn't too excited to do his collage, and Grant tried to cheer him up; he loves to make other people laugh and loves to laugh himself. Jonathan: Jonathan's story (after Donny's) was about being a tiger. He's always telling us he's a tiger and likes to act it out; He really enjoyed our splatter painting today and was one of the last kids to want to keep working on it; he LOVED Halley's cookies-all the kids did; he is enjoying quiet reading time and likes to talk about the books he has read.
Nicole: She did great at Mother May I and ended up winning the whole game; she is so kind to the other kids; she is always so positive-ALWAYS-she shouted "I'm happy" today; she is very skilled at using scissors and is very confident in her abilities and is a go getter.
Halley: What a darling frog she made today!!; Her story today (after Donny's) was about how she wore princess shoes as a baby; She was the hit of the party with the St. Patrick's Day cookies-very yummy (it's one of the things the kids remembered as we did our final review); she was very happy today (like always). Donny said he was "Gordan" today so Hally called herself "Gorda" for awhile (it's kind of funny when you think of it in Spanish).
Donny: He was the only one to eat the guacamole today (Apollo finally joined in); Donny said he had to tell us a story at the beginning so we all sat around to here Donny's story. He got old on his arm and showed his dad and Apollo. After that, all the kids had to each tell a story. It was cute to see how well they listen to one another. They crack me up.
Apollo: He LOVES our "Beaver Time" song and had a lot of fun with all the songs and hand motions we did today during circle time. He looked so cute going back and forth for "Days of the Week"; he likes to keep clean and had to change his pants when he got a little paint on them (even thought we always do messy things).
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