Dear Parents,
We began our week using the Feely Box. Everyone had a turn reaching in the box to feel an object and guess what it was. Some guesses were: a rock, a marble, a blueberry, a toy, a stone from the beach, and a couple of “I don’t knows”. We talked about using only our sense of touch to guess and not our eyes, ears, noses, or mouths. During circle we looked in the box to see what it was. Ask your children if you’d like to know.
We read Acorns Everywhere!, Fall Is Here! and In A Garden. We sang I’m An Acorn and everyone got an acorn to try and smash with their feet. There was a lot of stomping. We played Simon Says. Simon said to hop, balance on one foot, touch your toes, touch your nose, run in place, and have a seat.
We made a list titled Hands Can… The children said hands can grab things, grab food, put on our pants, hold water bottles, open cans, write, play with toys, and wash the germs off. We used our hands to decorate our art folders using ABC stamps and white paint. Everyone used the first letter of their name to stamp with. We made hand motions when singing The Itsy Bitsy Spider. Then we sang the great big spider and the teeny tiny spider. We read Hands Can, Hands Are Not For Hitting, Here Are My Hands, and My Five Senses.
On Thursday everyone took turns getting their hands traced. Then we used every color of the rainbow to color them. The next day we used red paint to make hand prints. We counted our fingers and noted that we have as many fingers on one hand as senses. We talked about using all of our senses when we eat snacks.
It was a feely touchy week,
Therese