We continued our Social Thinking Curriculum by learning about "Thinking With Your Eyes." Did you know that our eyes are like arrows? They point to things that we are looking at and shows others that we are thinking about what we are looking at. We continued practicing our 5 Little Pumpkins song and drew 5 little pumpkins in our personal journals as well.
After reading and loving the pop-up book "The Color Monster" by Anna Llenas last week, we looked closely at different monster books including "Quit Calling Me A Monster" by John Jorythe "Love Monster" by Rachel Bright, and "Romping Monsters, Stomping Monsters" by Jane Yolen and experimented with art.
We first drew patterns for the backgrounds of our monsters making different lines using construction paper and crayons. Some of us made wavy lines while some of us made lines using hearts, vertical lines, horizontal lines, and even zigzag lines! We then explored painting using black paint and forks, cardboard pieces, and sponges to give our monsters unique textures. It was then time to practice our cutting by cutting out our monsters and their eyes, teeth, smiles, and more. We used sharpies to add lots of details to our scary, adorable, angry, and loveable monsters! We look forward to showing our parents our monster friends soon.
We were happy to see that each of our monsters looked different and unique- just like our kindergarten classroom.
On Thursday, we also looked closely inside our pumpkins, worked together to clean them out and put the seeds aside, and carved a face in them by voting together on what we wanted it to look like! We had fun getting our hands messy and will be trying out the seeds from our pumpkins this week to see what they taste like.
We continued exploring and playing during centers, music, and gym.
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