Native American and Old Lady Weeks

Old Lady Week

I love this week because we read silly stories such as There Was An Old Lady Who Swallowed A Fly, There Was An Old Lady Who Swallowed Some Leaves, There Was A Cold Lady Who Swallowed Some Snow and There Was An Old Lady Who Swallowed A Clover!  The stories are great because we are able to really incorporate the children into the books because they are so repetitive.  Their favorite is the leaves book because she sneezes so many times in the story! 

 

We worked on this cute craft the one day and they turned out so neat!  I had printed out pictures of the kids faces and they added white and gray hair, a body with arms and legs, glasses and wrinkles.  They also had to tell me what they know about old people such as "Old people have wrinkles" or "old people have cane sticks"! LOL...

 

 

 

On Tuesday we learned about the election and talked about our presidential candidates!  We made a construction paper flag, talked about the pledge, traced a flag and discussed voting!

 



 

We also did this old lady craft/writing activity.  We made old ladies with funny faces and added pictures in their mouths of something they might have eaten such as the fly, cat, dog, etc.

 

 

Miss Vanessa saw this cute idea for our bulletin board!  It's a big Indian corn and the kiddos told us things that make them laugh.  The title is "Corny, Corny, Corny"!

 

 

 

Our fun fall sensory tub to go with the story There Was An Old Lady Who Swallowed Some Leaves!

 

 

Native American and Pilgrim Week

 

We LOVE feathers!  We used our fall (halloween) feathers to build in with our play dough activity!  What a neat fine motor activity and the kids loved it!!

 

 

We feather painted with big and little feathers and colors such as browns,

 oranges, reds, blues and greens!

 

 

 

We even painted with spices.  We specifically used cinnamon, chili powder and

 onion powder!  It was a neat sensory experience for the kids even though it smelled so strong!!

 

 

We used small sponges to make Indian corn in the afternoon!

 

 

We learned a little bit about Native American homes and the most recognizable is obviously the teepee!  We used our math pattern blocks to make teepees.  Unfortunately I forgot to take a picture of the kids actually using the pattern blocks but this was our teepee pattern!

 

 

We had Indian Corn from our fall science center so we husked it this week!  We will continue husking our smaller corn next week, but the kids loved pulling the corn off the husk.  What I think is so neat is this sensory tub was empty and all I had to do was throw some corn husks in it and the kids knew exactly what to do!!

 

 

Our silly Native American faces.  We talked about shapes,

colors and patterns in the headbands!

 

 

 

These were our pilgrims waiting to be hung up with our Native Americans.  sooo cute :)

 

 

My favorite project of the week is the one that is pictured below.  We did this is in our writing center and the kids did such a good job! We were very proud of them.  We showed pictures of Native American symbols and translated them.  The students picked their favorite ones to recreate in their drawings on the buffalo "hide".

 

 

 

 

We talked a lot about what Pilgrims and Indians would have worn, used and eaten.  We matched shapes on Mayflower ships and played a memory game with Native American tribes.  We are so excited for our Thanksgiving Week next week and to celebrate with a big thanksgiving feast!

 

Danielle