🍀☘ St. Patrick's Day and Rainbows ☘🍀
Everyone is Irish during St. Patrick's Day! The Quarter Notes have enjoyed having Irish step dancing dance parties. This was a great way to move our bodies during this week of cold weather. Thankfully, St. Patrick's Day was 50 degrees, so we could find a pot-o-gold outside on the playground before the rain.
The children LOVE rainbows. 🌈 We made a rainbow in a seltzer bottle science activity (density) and read books on how rainbows are made with sunshine and raindrops.
The class enjoyed eating shamrock cookies for a fun morning snack on St. Patrick's Day and having a treasure hunt to find the leprechaun's pot-o-gold.
Recognized and traced letters at the writing table: CLOVER, GOLD, HAT, POT, LUCK, FLAG.
The Quarter Notes created rainbow art using paper plate clouds, construction paper strips, and cotton balls. I punched a hole in the top of the clouds and tied a ribbon for hanging.
The math table had laminated pots, dice, and gold coins for counting. We rolled the dice and used our index fingers to carefully count each dot, then counted our coins and put them into our pot-o-gold. The pots also had white squares for prewriting numbers, as well as recognizing and counting the correct number of coins.
Mandarin: (Written by Mrs. Mei)
We review the fruits in mandarin and introduce new words about some instruments.
In Zoom, they saw butterflies landing on Ms.Peishuan's hair, face and nose. We talked about the number and color. Also, Ms. Peishuan was a banana, strawberry, watermelon, apple..on the screen. Ask your child about it, silly Ms. Peishuan.
~ Peishuan
Music: Ms. Lisa's friend, Johnny, is also a musician. He played his guitar while Ms. Lisa played her violin on our Zoom call. Johnny also played an Irish drum called a bodhran. We marched fast or slow to the drum beat in a circle.
Sports: Rainbows, balancing cones, Old MacDonald.
😊 Have a wonderful weekend! 😊
Alison Dressler
Messy fun! Art show preparation.
Strengthing our hands opening and closing clothespins. Each clothespin had a picture that was clipped to a corresponding color. The Quarter Notes talked about mixing colors and the different colors we could make. 🎨
Clothes pins are a great fine motor skill activity.
They help with future writing skills, cutting with scissors, buttoning, zipping, and hand eye coordination just to name a few. A good pincer grip helps out for more than just eating and picking up small objects.
Look out Lord of the Dance, here come the Quarter Notes! 🍀🍀🍀
Irish Step dancing to Celtic music.
Doing a jig!
These rainbows made the room look beautiful!
Had fun using shakers that are filled with different colored beads to help us sing a rainbow song.
❤ So sweet! ❤
A wee little leprechaun forgot to flush. 😂
I have been saving these beautiful rainbow plates for quite some time. They made the perfect place setting for our shamrock cookies. 🍪🍀 The Quarter Notes loved the plates so much that they requested to take them home. 😂
The leprechauns left a pot-o-gold under the rainbow. 🌈
We mixed red and blue food coloring into honey to make our purple layer. 💜 (Everyone had their own spoon for mixing.)
Blue dish soap layer
Green water layer
Olive oil or vegetable oil layer separating.
Mixing our red and orange rubbing alcohol or handsanitizer layer.
Layers are starting to form!
Reading music/blue Jello with our rythm sticks.
Waiting for the sunshine to make rainbows!
One of my rabbits, CLOVER. 🍀
Nobody puts Patrick Swayze in a corner. 😉
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