Learning About Foxes

We started the day with a fine motor activity in the Touch and Feel pool.  The kids took large pieces of orange paper and orange streamer paper and tore it in much smaller pieces.  Tearing is hard work for those little fingers!  But...once they knew we were using this paper for art, they took the job very seriously!

Ms. Danielle was here today for Young Athletes!  The weather was so pretty as we worked on balance and coordination.  The first thing we did was balancing on two beams.  Then we worked on side stepping, which was hard without "open/close verbal cues" and stepping over hurdles.  Then we walked across a series of buckets.  The kids had so much fun and were such good listeners today!

We had music with Ms. Stacey today!  We sang along with our Hello song, reviewing our big music words from last fall - crescendo and decrescendo - and then learned the second part of our song of the month, Animals Are Different.  Next we talked a little bit about St. Patrick's Day and Irish music, then played a listening game with the parachute.  This was tricky since we had to keep our voices quiet and just use ears, even when we were moving very fast with the music!  After that, we learned some silly words for a song about animals in the forest - Do Wah Diddy Diddy Dum Diddy Do!  In this song we took turns singing and sharing facts about different forest animals during each verse.  Next, everyone got a drum so we could practice taking turns and playing and stopping again with the I've Got the Groove Song we learned last week.  We ended with See You Later Alligator, and some excellent singing voices!

Our story today was Fox by Kate Banks.  As the seasons change, a little fox learns that there is a time for everything.  He has many things to learn before he is ready to go out into the woods by himself.  His parents teach him all about the woods, how to hunt and bury his food during winter, how to run like the wind, and how to stay safe from the wolves.  When the time is right, he can go out into the wood on his own.

For language circle, we made a big chart of all the animal habitats that we had learned about so far.  We started with people....who live in houses, and continued down a long list with some impressive vocabulary that the kids have learned this month.

During art we used the paper from the morning to make fox faces.  The kids glued down the orange paper and added eyes, a nose, and ears.  They were very excited to run down the hallway acting like foxes!!