We started our unit on transportation last week-this will flow nicely into the community helpers unit later this week and next week. A classic transportation activity is to let children drive small cars through pain onto the paper. Watching their different approaches to this was interesting. Some covered the entire paper with paint and what you saw in the final product was the indentions where cars rolled. Others used less paint (like Amelia, to the left), and what you saw was paint that was actually applied through the tires.
We pulled out the Thomas the Train game and the kids LOVED it! This was donated last year, and I finally sat down to learn the rules. It was obviously very simple, but taught such good social skills-primarily waiting for your and being excited for others when they do well. I was shocked at how well they did. I expected the kids to argue over who got to be what color, but instead, they calmly decided who would be what color train.
For a couple of years, I've wanted to make sandpaper letters-and finally did! The activity in the writing center the last few days has been the sandpaper letters. The kids can find letters in their names or sight words and then trace them with their finger. The texture adds a bit of variety to the writing center which helps to draw the kids in to participate.
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| Sandpaper letters |
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| Playing the Thomas the Train game! |
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| This makes me smile |
Great job, Kerry! These kids are learning so much! Olivia had told me about all these activities except the Thomas game, but she opened up about that when she saw the picture!
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