Daily Question: Rr Have you seen a race car?
It is so fun to see the children playing with each
other creatively and wanting to continue playing! (Research shows
that children learn best when ideas are presented creatively in the form of
play.) We built a race track our of Duplo blocks and then I asked the children,
"Which cars do you think will race down the
track the fastest? Why?" We tested our
hypotheses. I had each child hold a heavy and a light weight car." Which one will go faster?" The heavy metal cars were the fastest.
Show N' Teach (Rr):
Look Savannah's Rapunzel doll has a ring on her finger!
Aaron' s Race cars
Jack' s Race cars
Today we are talking about Race Cars and Transportation. Transportation is something that is used to carry people from place to place like a race car, train, plane, boat, trolley, subway, etc.
We read about the Little Engine That Could. This great story talks about being willing to try and saying "I Think I Can!" when trying out something new.
We learned about R the rhinoceros who races rapidly on roller skates down a rainy road, "R-r-r." He is trying to reach the end of the rainbow on his red roller skates, "R-r-r." As you student races with his feet moving them back and forth (like roller-skating) have them practice the letter "r" sound as in rhino, race, and roller skates.
Arts and crafts: Our follow-up activity on the letter R was finger painting with metal race cars across a page while we practiced saying the letter "r" sound.
Sugar Cookie Fun!
Transportation Books:
A Book of Things That Go Zoom by Jennifer Frantz. Ill. by Don Tate.
The Story of Flight by Lizzy Pearl.The Little Engine That Could Retold by Watty Piper, Ill. by Geore and Doris Hauman
My Big Train Book (Priddy Books; Big Ideas for Little People)
Just for fun--why not make a Recycled Robot? Interested. Find out how here.