Today we worked on gifts and cards for our mothers.
Our gift was an origami dog. We used scrap booking paper to make our dog.
I thought the scrap booking paper would be cute, but the dots on the paper hid some of the eyes the students drew.
After the struggles of trying to fold the origami dog and make it look just perfect, the students needed a a break that included some large motor movement. I placed a bag of lower case letters on one side of the room and the students had to quickly move (crawl like a bear, slither like a snake, or move like some other animal) to the bag, grab a letter from the bag, and then quickly move back to the board. Once the student was back at the board we discussed the letter and placed it onto the Venn diagram. We organized the letters by just straight lines, just curvy lines, and letters that had both curvy and straight lines.
Our Mother's day cards were very challenging for preK students. It seemed simple as I was planning it. I cut out tear drops out of tissue paper for the flower petals and the leaves. The students were to gently twist the point of the tear drop shapes to give them a 3D look. This was too much of a challenge for the students as they tried their best. I finally twisted the tear drops and they just glued them onto the cards. we twisted a piece of tissue paper for the stem. Inside we pasted a Mother's Day poem and wrote "I love you, Mom." inside with our signatures.
After snack and some free play outside, we came back in and played a couple of rounds of "I have ... who has...?"
My students take this game very seriously as you can see the concentration on their faces.
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