All About Me

This weeks theme was All About Me. The kids can learn and express there favorite things about themselves. Also this months color theme is Red. I will be throwing red into our week. One way to help kids learn colors is to put it in their activities. My sensory table has all Red objects this week. I have Red Lego blocks, red toy Indian's and army men, red dyed noodles, and red craft Pom Poms. You can also dye cotton balls.

Monday

So this week we kept all our project papers to make an all about me booklet on Friday. Today we talked about our special features on our face. We talked about our eyes, nose, ears, mouth, etc. As we named them we said what we use each part for. Also we sang the Head shoulders knees and toes song. My class likes when we sing the song really slow then faster. Also we sing it low and then we sing it loud. It keeps their interest in it a little longer.

So we moved on to our project. The front cover of our book. I searched the Internet for faces that looked kinda like the child. Then printed the words All about me. As we colored we pointed to the face features and then pointed to ours.

Tuesday

Today we talked about our hands. We have our own very unique hands. We can clap our hands, we can shake our hands, and wiggle our fingers. We talked about on our fingers we have what is called fingerprints. We each have our very own.

For our project I printed the words my fingerprints are unique. No one else has them!!

Our class used paint to make our finger prints. This was tricky because this was the first time they did their finger tips. They were use to making hand prints. So they tried to sneak in and dunk their whole hand in the paint. Next time I think we will use stamp pads instead of paint. It did not show up as well with paint.

Also I sent home a page for the parents to fill out and bring back. If you have older kids you can just ask them and they might tell you. My class could not care less about my questions. I also added this to their booklet. You can find the free printout at http://2care2teach4kids.blogspot.com/2011/09/free-all-about-me-activity.html

Wednesday

Wednesday is always show and tell day at circle time. This time they were to bring a baby picture.

The kids were excited to sit in the circle with their picture. We took turns passing around their picture. Some kids laughed because they thought it was weird to see what their friends looked like as a baby. After, we put them on display so every one can see them through out the day.

So for our lessons today we talked about something inside our body that helps us move. Our bones. This week I tried looking for books at the library pertaining to our lessons. Sad to say I could not find any good ones. I did have one book stashed in my teacher book collection. I store all my good books in my filing cabinet. I order them from scholastic. This one was a Halloween book but it still served the purpose. It was called "Skeleton Meets The Mummy" by Steve Metzger

For our project what better way to make bones than using Q-tips. I cut Q-tips in half and let the kids glue them onto a body template. I found the template on a google search. The kids love this project.

Thursday

Today our class felt a little humorous. Not sure if that's a real word. We talked about something we have (well a lot of kids have) stinky dirty feet. We talked about our feet and toes. The kids loved the project I had in store for today. We took off our shoes and painted our feet. We made stinky feet foot prints. The hardest part I found was painting the bottom of their feet without getting paint all over. Due to their screams of tickle giggles.

Friday

Still trying to over come our case of tickle giggles. (Like every Friday) Today is our review and freeday. We reviewed everything we learned this week. Reread a few books then went play outside. It was hot so we did not stay out to long. Then inside to eat a popsicle.

Thanks for stoping by this week. Next week is our Letter A week.