This week we are doing what is called "emergent" themes. We are observing what the children are interested in playing and making a week concentrating on that theme.
For the Monday, Wednesday, Friday group, that theme is Hide and Seek. They have loved playing hide and seek, hiding the treasure and games like that. So this week we are playing hide and seek and introducing nature's way of hide and seek which is camouflage!
Table activities include searching for items hidden in rice, making hidden pictures by drawing with a white crayon and painting over it in watercolors, searching for hidden treasure, playing memory, camouflaging plastic animals and bugs on different backgrounds and good, old hidden pictures.
Small group activities include painting a hidden polar bear, finding the hidden letter and adding a page of hidden pictures to our journal.
Our KDI for the week is Cooperative Play. You can't play hide and seek alone! Someone has to hide or hide the treasure and someone has to look. We practice taking turns, making sure there is someone for every necessary role and include those who want to play in the game. We remind each other, kindly, of the rules and we play!
Books of the week are - "Mouse Paint" by Ellen Stohl Walsh, "A Color of His Own" by Leo Lionni and "How to Hide an Octopus" by Ruth Heller.
For the Tuesday and Thursday crew, we have loved playing pretend! Whether its "adventure" in the tent, "princess" with crowns and wands, sometimes doctor, kitchen and sometimes everything mixed together!
Table activities include exploring more dress up, water play, paper dolls, and tent play.
Small group activities include making props- each child gets a dowel to make into whatever they would like, magic wand, fishing pole, etc., then on Thursday we can make crowns and/or binoculars to help in their make believe play!
Our KDI is Initiative- Children demonstrate initiative as they explore their world. They showed what they liked to play and I hope concentrating on it will help bring it to the next level, really using their imaginations and building storylines!
Books of the week are "Harold and the Purple Crayon" by Crockett Johnson, "Pretend" by Jennifer Plecas and "Princess! Fairy! Ballerina!" by Bethanie Deeney Murguia.
Jesus Time is the same for both classes-
This week we hear the story of Jesus Calming the Storm. Jesus and his disciples have had a very busy day, preaching and healing the crowds that followed Jesus everywhere! They decide to take a boat across the Sea of Galilee. Many of Jesus disciples are experienced fishermen, so sailing at night was nothing new for them. When they got into the boat, Jesus lay down in the back, put his head on a cushion and fell asleep. As they began to cross, the wind and waves picked up. Even the experienced sailors began to get anxious. They wondered how Jesus could sleep through all this! He was testing them. Finally, they woke him up, asking "Don't you care that we're about to drown?" Jesus chided them- "Oh, you of little faith!" He stood on the prow of the boat and said. "Quiet! Be Still!" and it was! The disciples were amazed, even the wind and waves obeyed him! They just needed to learn to trust, as we still do!
Have a great week!
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