Happy Tuesday Everyone! Another large step the evolution of human culture was the creation of houses and homes. After we left our caves, we were a nomadic people for thousands of years until we discovered that staying put and farming crops was a better/safer way to live. If humans have three basic needs, they are most likely food/drink, oxygen, and shelter. We read books and sang songs celebrating how lucky we are to have nice, warm homes to go to.
The Books:
In a People House by: Theo LeSieg
Froggy Builds a Treehouse by: Jonathan London
A House for Birdie by: Stuart J. Murphy
What we did:
1.) Action song: Here is a house (Storytime Katie)
Here is a house, built up so high (Put arms over head like a triangle roof)
Here are two chimneys that reach the sky (Reach arms up to the sky)
Here is a window (Pretend to open a window)
Here is a door (Pretend to open a door)
When we look inside (Put hand over eyes to look inside)
We see a mouse on the floor. Eeeek! (Scurry fingers up your arm)
2.) Fingerplay: Houses (Preschool.com)
A Nest is a house for a robin (Cup hands like a nest)
A Beehive is home for a bee (Put two fists together)
A Hole is a home for a rabbit (Make a circle with hands)
And a house is a home for me! (Make a roof with hands)
3.) Flannelboard- A House for Birdie- I used the book as an inspiration for this. I cut out houses from flannel and then cut a specific shape bird (triangle, circle, oval, rectangle, square). I had the kids help me figure out what shape bird fit where. I pretend that I have no idea what I'm doing and they love to shout NO! when I am wrong. Lots of giggles and super easy to make. I only regret not taking a picture.
4.) www.gonoodle.com Brain breaks and body movement
We continued leveling our champion up.We tried two new songs called Dino stomp and I Get Loose. The kids began asking me to do some of our more familiar tunes. I got requests for the roller coaster song, and one mom mentioned that her little one was singing "Push all the buttons" all week. Perhaps we'll go back to that one. One thing you have to be aware of with technology is it will betray you when you need it most. Today that happened to me. On gonoodle.com, you pick a cartoon avatar called a champion. For every ten dances you do, they level up. When they do, something on them changes. Our champion has a bushy mustache. Today, his mustache got very long and grew mustache hands. It was funny. However, it didn't work the first time! The website crashed and while the kids were at playtime, I had to fiddle with the thing and then pull the kids out of playtime to look at it. Jeez...
5.) Playtime- I will apologize for my lack of pictures this week. We didn't have anything very new and how many pictures of play-doh can you look at. 8( Sorry!
a.) House project- I cut out many different shapes out of construction paper. The kids glued them into a reasonable facsimile of a house and trees. It was simple, but this was a difficult week for me to pull activities for.
b.) Play-Doh
c.) House/Animal matching game
Thanks for checking me out. See you next week!
Mr. Mike
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