Toys: FP and Imaginex (x2) Castles
Snack: Nathan's birthday cupcakes, pretzels, and goldfish crackers. Thanks, Mrs. Marley! They were delicious.
Songs: From the Time to Get Dressed CD
*Dress For the Weather
*What Color Should I Wear
* I Can Do It!
** Once There Was a Snowman.
We enjoyed playing together with the castle building sets-- and had lots of fun! After clean-up, we enjoyed snack time. There, I read a book aloud called Happy Birthday Word Bird and went around the table asking each student, "When is your birthday?"
We had fun getting to know Nathan today. We had a small "Un" Birthday Party. (His birthday really is in June). He likes the color blue and has an older sister in school, Andelin, who is six! He has a younger brother, Jaxon. They moved here from Alaska so his father could go back to school at BYU. He will move soon. (In April, they will go bask east with their dad who is taking a month long Internship.) We will miss him in May and wish him and his family all the best!
In Circle Time, we saw and talked about many books of Modern Day Heroes/Heroines. We learned that after the start of America, people in Africa were kidnapped and taken by boat to America to work as slaves on plantations that grew tobacco and cotton. We talked about how the slaves (People from Africa who became African Americans or were sometimes called Blacks or Coloreds) were treated poorly--not allowed to vote, hold a paying job, use the same water fountain, or marry. We talked briefly about the US Constitution, the Civil War and President Lincoln (whose birthday is celebrated in Feb.), Segregation, Civil Rights, "Separate but Equal," Martin Luther, Coretta Scott, and Rosa Parks, and Montgomery Bus Boycott. We also talked a little about Helen Keller, one of my personal Heroines.
Happy Birthday Book:
Happy Birthday Word Bird: Word Birds for Early Birds by Jane Belk Moncure & Linda Hohag*
* Excellent book on the months of the year for early learners.
Heroes/Heroines Book:
Barack Obama: Son of Promise, Child of Hope by NIkki Grimes, Ill. by Bryan Collier--PCL
Martin Luther King, Jr. A Dream of Hope by Alice Fleming (Sterling Biographies)--PCL copy, use for pictures--too advanced for preschoolers.
What's So Great About...? Rosa Parks by Jim Whiting (A Robbie Reader) PCL
Helen Keller by Sean Dolan (Rookie Biographies) PCL
Bio-Graphics Abraham Lincoln (Graphic Planet, Red Wagon) written by Joe Dunn, ill. by Rod Espinosa
The Bus Ride That Changed History; The Story of Rosa Parks by Pamela Duncan Edwards, Ill. by Danny Shanahan
Coretta Scott Poetry by Ntozake Shange, Paintings by Kadir Nelson
I went to the Restroom and I could hear whispering conspirators. When I came into the room, all the children were "gone!" "Where could all my preschoolers be?" "BOO! we scared you!" they shouted as they popped up from behind the couch.
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