As we are heading into a Holiday of Feasting and Family, our stories and work in the PreK 4 classroom are reflecting all the excitement. We are writing a book about Why We Are Grateful for our Families which includes comments and illustrations from each child. We noticed that for the most part children are grateful for their families because they "just love them."
We have been practicing and performing our play, A Mushroom in the Rain every day at the children's request and look forward to creating a video about the story. We even had a chance to perform the story for assembly on Monday! I think that was our favorite performance. We do love an audience!
There was a flannel board version of the story that the children enjoyed recreating-they all remained very true to the characters that they chose to be!
We shared many crafts this week, wrapping sticks with yarn, pressing dried beans into salt dough, and making pretzels (yeast is a fungi!).
We are reading Stone Soup, and Pumpkin Soup, both books about cooperation and sharing. When we read Stone Soup, we needed to discuss the fact that the villagers hid their food. "I didn't like when the villagers hid their food." We decided together to create OUR stone soup generously, and that everyone would give vegetables, rather than hide them. The Stone Soup was a big event! We asked for vegetables to be sent in and we had one hundred percent participation! The vegetables were brought to the pot and chopped and talked about very proudly. We created table"cloths" and place cards for our names, and ate the soup together. Many of the children ate more than one serving! We enjoyed sharing vegetables and cooking together, and exclaiming, "stone soup! the best you've ever tasted!"
To begin with, we needed to go and find the perfect stone!
I absolutely love that this was a project. I did not know about the mushroom PLAY though! David has been pointing out mushrooms all over our nature walks.
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