I liked the theme this week, Stars! I found some cool projects and a couple of books around the house to use.
Here is what we did on Monday!
We talked about stars and learned the vocab word Twinkle. We talked about how we see stars at night and how that means it is bed time (This actually helped me get them to bed last night without an arguement). We talked about how the sun is a star and read a short Elmo book about the sun. Then, we took a break and did our first project, making a star necklace. Here is the link to the template http://www.first-school.ws/activities/crafts/animals/ocean/starfish-necklace.htm. I wanted to do this one early on so they could wear their twinkling stars all week when we do school time. We added glitter to the project to make it "twinkle."
While the glitter on their star necklaces dried, we practiced singing "Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star." We listened to it on CD a few times and then tried to sing it. Kaden was totally into it and wanted to keep singing. Jaelyn did not want to. Kaden gets really into singing and I don't know why Jaelyn doesn't, but something tells me it might be that she doesn't want to try to compete with him because he is more confident about it. She really likes listening and moving to the music more. Anyway, we moved on to the next star project that used shapes to make a star. Here is the template: http://www.first-school.ws/t/star1bw.htm . They glued the points of the star on a little differently but they got the point that there were 5 points and they were able to name their shapes.
To finish up we counted the 7 star stickers, since 7 was the number of the week this week, then we drew different G things up on the board. After dinner and before bed, we looked out the window at the stars and how they twinkled. We sang the song again and then we said the "Star light, Star Bright, First star I see tonight" rhyme in reference to the the picture we saw in the nursery rhymes book of a little girl wishing on a star before bedtime.
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