G is for Gorilla
Book: Good Night Gorilla By: Peggy Rathmann
Magnetic Board Story: 5 Little Leaves (Reusing from last week!)
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| We started our morning off with making apple sauce with our Golden Delicious Apples (I was glad it tied into our letter G week!). There was a slight malfunction with the applesauce maker. Since some of the apples were ready and I had two anxious applesauce makers, we used the baby food mill. It worked! (Thank you Miss Susie for coming over to fix the applesauce maker! It worked great once we located a replacement bolt! I was glad I didn't have to grind a 1/2 bushel of apples in a baby food maker!) |
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| We read Good Night Gorilla. This is one of my favorite stories and Ava's too. It was fun to incorporate it in our day. We read it two times. The first time we read it for enjoyment and talked about the story as we went. The second time, we used sequencing cards from http://www.first-school.ws/activities/books/animals/wild/gngorilla.htm. As we read the story, Ava had to recall which animal the zoo keeper said goodnight to next. We lined them up in the correct order. |
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| During art time Ava and Dominic painted upper and lower case letters the color green. We then used glue to add gold and green glitter! |
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| Ava's green and glittery letter G! |
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| Dominic's green and glittery letter G! |
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| I was super excited about our gooey green gak sensory table this week ! Both kids loved it and couldn't wait to get the chance to spend some time at this center each day. I included scissors, small containers, and plastic knives along with the gak. |
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| Ava said it felt like worms (probably why she loved it so much!) It was a great way for her to be able to practice her cutting skills. Dominic liked being allowed to play with the scissors too! There are a couple different ways to make it. We used liquid starch instead of borax. You can find the recipe at http://homeschooling.gomilpitas.com/extras/Gak.htm. I do recommend wearing old clothes or smock. It does stick to clothes. |
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| Okay, so our Monday was kind of a hodge podge of activities For math, Ava had to sort pom poms by color using tongs. Once she had sorted all the colors into the correct cups, we practice counting each color. |
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| Dominic did the same activity. He focused on picking up the pom poms with the tongs and placing them in any cup, rather than sorting. |
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| I found a great little gorilla work packet from www.1plus1plus1equals1.com. There were several pages to the packet. I printed a few pages that fit some of the skills I am working on with Ava. She gets so excited to have independent work. She was working on it while I was making lunch. When lunch was ready, she told me that she couldn't eat because she wanted to work more and would eat after. I hope this enthusiasm for homework keeps up! |
Tuesday: G is for Gumball!
Book: (Okay, I dropped the ball on this one. I never made it to the library prior to the start of the week. We read several books throughout the day, but had to opt out of a themed one!)
Songs: Bubble Gum By: Rick Charette (If you grew up in New England it was probably a childhood favorite or you at least heard it live in concert several times!)
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| During our circle time we worked on ordering gumball machines from smallest to largest. |
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| Ava loves to help Dominic so he can participate too! |
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| During our art time today we created gumball machines. I cut the middle out of a paper plate to serve as the outside of the machine. Using another paper plate, Ava had to glue pom poms to the center of the plate (gumballs). I attached her painted plate in front of the plate with the gumballs. We added a little stand complete with the slot to put the quarter! |
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| The finished product! |
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| Letter G handwriting practice. |
Wednesday: G is for Ghost!
With Halloween just a couple weeks away, there is lots of talk of costumes and trick or treating. This was a fun theme for the day!
Book: Halloween Hooks and Howls By: Joan Horton
Fingerplays: Baby Ghost (from www.preschoolexpress.com)
I Saw a Ghost
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| During our circle time this morning we, again, practiced ordering by size. This time we used different sized ghosts. We put them in order from biggest to smallest. |
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| I created little ghost puppets to use while we recited our ghost finger plays. |
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| During art time, Ava created a ghost windsock! |
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| Ava's finished friendly ghost! |
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| Today is when I discovered that gak does stick to clothes (the one day I gave in and said they didn't have to wear smocks to play with it!). |
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| I think the gak will have to make more appearances in the sensory table! |
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| We revisited our letter of the week box. Except, today there were objects in there that not only started with g, but other sounds as well! |
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| The kid's took turns pulling items out of the box. Ava was the big helper when it came to deciding if the object should go on the plate with the letter G on it or the plate for all the objects that did not start with the letter G. |
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| There were two sides to the counting wheel. The first side had numbers 1-5 and the second side had numbers 5-10. |
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| We also worked on patterning using different colored ghosts. For this activity I just found a clip art of a fun little ghost and printed enough to have 6 orange, 6 yellow, 6 purple, and 6 gray. I let Ava create the patterns. |
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| Ava chose to use the same activity to sort the ghost by colors too. |
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| Ava loves hear and tell stories! I gave her a coloring sheet of a pumpkin with flowers and a ghost beside the flowers. I told her that while she was coloring it, I wanted her to think about what was happening in the picture. She was going to tell her own ghost story inspired by the picture! |
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| Here is the finished product. I typed as she dictated her story. It was fun to hear her even add dialogue to her story. I hope to start adding more creative writing activities to our preschool program. |
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