Behind the Classroom Doors 3PM & 4s (3/23/12)

A look behind the classroom doors of 3pm, 4am & 4pm...

3 PM

We had the BEST time during our nutrition unit and we saved the very best for last!  

On Monday the kids dictated responses to the questions,

“What did you, learn about food?”
and
“What was your favorite activity during our food unit?” 

All the hands on cooking was a big hit with everyone! 

On Wednesday we took a pretend trip to the Trinity Restaurant.  

We moved one of our little tables to the parlor and set it with a tablecloth plus a vase with flowers.

We explained to the kids that the teacher would be a hostess, waitress, chef, and cashier. 

Lillian then said,
“But then you change back into a teacher, right?!”  

Each child had a menu and enough money to order 1 of everything on the menu. 

When the check came they needed to figure out how much to pay the cashier.  

It was fun and challenging!!  

One aspect of the trip to the restaurant that is hard to capture in words, is how they took on a “fancy restaurant persona.”

  
Picture the kids with their napkins on the their laps displaying manners fit for a king / queen! 
It was so fun!

Today we donned chef hats and made personal pizzas!! 

They were DELICIOUS!!! 

I strongly recommend Trader Joe’s Pizza Dough!! 

And, if they wanted a pizza with the works then every food group was represented!

Combine all that fun inside with lots of running around outside... and you have a great week!! 

The 4s AM & PM

We blasted off into fun territory – space!! 

We are learning about the planets and the sun, and using the appropriate vocabulary such as orbit. 
(The planets orbit the sun!) 

We enjoyed acting this out – one child is the sun and several children are the planets. 

The planets rotate as they orbit. 
All of a sudden – these words have meaning to the children!!   

The absolute best part of this week was that we spent lots of time outside in our playground! 

Wow – what a gift!!

 

More from 4AM

Had a visit from Kari for Spanish and Valerie Dashiell for science. 

We had 3 centers on Centers Day.

At one center the kids played alphabet sound bingo.  

At another center the kids did a dot to dot and number tracing worksheet using the numbers 1 – 20. 

At the third center the kids worked together to write a story. 

Every child added to the story. 
Then they acted it out. 

We will be doing lots more of this after break!

 

4PM

On Tuesday we used the letter vests to sound out short A words. 

The kids are getting GREAT at this – they are starting to crack the code!!

We also had a visit from Kari for Spanish and Valerie Dashiell for science.   

 

We had 2 centers on Centers Day. 

At one center the kids did a dot to dot and number tracing worksheet using the numbers 1 – 20. 

At the other center the kids worked together to write a story. 

Every child added to the story. 
Then they acted it out. 

We will be doing lots more of this after break!