What 's Happening In The Curious George Room?

This picture, and the one underneath, show our new way to sign in.  Each day we'll ask a question of the children, one which is answered with a number rather than words.  It's a meaningful way to include number writing in their daily life.

Working with positional words is often confusing to children.  We began a discussion by asking everyone to take green blocks or cubes and hold them in a certain position, perhaps over their heads, under their chins or in front of their bodies as this picture shows.

Much like Pharaoh had frogs all over his bed, we have frogs all over our room.  After making a frog, the children chose a positional word.  Then the thinking began....where can you put your frog to reflect the word you chose.

Anna's frog is next to the poem.  Come in and see if you can find all 12 frogs!

Each of our caterpillars is now a chrysalis, hanging at the top of the butterfly cage.  We're watching to see when they will emerge as butterflies!

Jonah and Max are carefully studying the blossom and beginning fruit of the pomegranate tree in the garden. 

The tools in the garden were looking a bit worn.  Some of the shovels had lost their edge and the rakes were bent.  The wooden handles were all in need of a good sanding. 

The Curious George children set to work, but as they were sanding,  they wondered why Heidi didn't just buy new tools.  When Heidi said she didn't really want to spend money on tools since there were some other things she needed to buy, we asked if Heidi would like to have some of the money we earned at the art show.

 
Charlie B said, "Heidi, you won't need to use these rusty old tools any more.  We are going to buy you new ones."  James David quickly added, "We can give the old tools to a school that doesn't have any." 

 Is there any doubt that our children have internalized the values of consideration and thinking of those with fewer monetary resources? 

We looked at the hamster and compared him to a bunny.  They both can move quickly!!

Make charoset, chop  chop  chop!  True to the song, we chopped alot of apples for our PreK Seder.  Tasty charoset and a fine motor workout.

Gross motor skills and beginning addition come into play in this Passover game.  The Seder plate is in the middle of an orange rectangle. 

Throw a plastic matzah in the rectangle and you get 1 point.

Land the matzah in the seder plate and you get 2 points.

Jack is all smiles as he got 4 points for his team.

Keeping score with unifix cubes and then determining who won.  There are so many different math skills employed while playing this game such as adding the point value of the 2 throws together and comparing the scores of the 2 teams.  Best of all, this game is a good way to encourage good sportsmanship and rooting for your friends regardless of which team they are on!



We must have worked REALLY hard this week!