Joy for Joy School: Day 2: Lines and Weather

During circle time we emphasized what the weather was like today. The children all decided it was sunny and windy. We read a story without words about the weather. It had pictures and I described the details in the pictures. The children were super attentive and loved the part about the wind. In the picture people, hats, trees, paper, etc. were being blown all over and all the children thought that was neat.

To learn about lines we first had a demonstration on the white board about what a line was. Everyone wanted to draw a line on the whiteboard :) Then we used our fine motor skills and practiced cutting lines, that I before hand, had drawn on each child's paper. I encouraged them to draw more lines and cut them all out. Some had difficulty using the scissors so it was a great time to teach them how to hold and use scissors, as well.

We then did a craft about the weather. Each child looked up in the sky and told me what they thought they saw in a cloud. We got a lot of creative answers and then they made what they thought they saw out of cotton balls to represent the cloud. It was really cute. This is what they each thought they saw.

Everett: Train

RJ: Circle

Kaylee: Heart

Jared: Cow

Max: Dinosaur

They then enjoyed their weather inspired snack. They had popcorn to represent clouds and it was buttered popcorn, the butter to represent the sun. They all loved it and had fun playing with the toothpick, cloud and sun, that were in it :-) The toothpick representing the line.

After that they each made a wind streamer. They adorned them with tissue paper (all colors of the rainbow), glitter glue, sequins, you name it! Then they practiced their large motor skills by putting our windy day to the test and running with their wind streamers in the wind!