So many things have happened in our classroom since Christmas break including another classroom party-Valentine's Day, reaching the 100th DAY OF SCHOOL!, and learning about following directions and patterns, the jungle, dinosaurs, love, and rhyming. There have been so many fun projects and activities that I wish I would have shared, but that would take up a 5 page long post, so instead I'm going to focus on this last week of rhyming with a quick post and prepare for this next week as we have SO MANY fun activities learning about the Rainbow! :) And to partially quote one of my preschoolers "There will be almost no worksheets, it is gonna be 'Off the Hook!'"Haha!
This past week on Tuesday, we learned about rhyming words from one of my new and absolute favorite characters "Pete the Cat." He made a few appearances throughout the week in our 3 stories "Pete the Cat and His Four Groovy Buttons," "Pete the Cat and His Brand New White Shoes," and "Pete the Cat Rockin in his School Shoes." Now we have had some funny times in our classroom but this was by far one of the top afternoons watching ALL the kids groove to the songs and seeing their amusing actions. In one of the Stories, Pete is wearing a jacket in which he is singing about his groovy buttons, eventually they all pop off one at a time and Pete is left with just his jacket until he looks down and see's his belly button! He then continues to sing "My button, my button, still have my belly button!" As I am turning around one day after singing this song for the 3rd time I find my preschoolers presenting their bellys and singing "My button, my button, still have my belly button" with their tummy's! It was was the most amusing and cutest thing ever! And then two boys decided to belly bump after! Haha I don't think I have laughed so hard!
I highly recommend YouTubing Pete the cat so you can better picture this! ;)
Our art project also centered around Pete this week and we made our own Pete the Cat's with the color shoes of their choice to go along with the book "I Love my White Shoes." They were so proud of them they wouldn't even let me hang them up, they just HAD to take them home! :)
A few other activites included a Snowball Toss, in which we had rhyming words with their picture on pieces of paper. They were crumpled up and put in a basket and on the count of 3 I tossed them up. Each child had to grab a "snowball," check it out, and find their partner that had a word that rhymed with theirs. Another activity was our Rhyme Run which had the same sort of idea to it. Each child had a rhyming word with picture taped to their shirt and on the count of 3 they had to run to find their partner on the other side of the room. We had to repeat this a few times changing up our words, which resulted in some water breaks and sweat towels ;) Ha!
I unfortunately forgot my notebook of funnies (promise to get them in next week!) so instead I will close with a great quote I found which perfectly describes my afternoons :)
Have a great sunshiny week!
