Objective: The children will engage and interact with activities that explore the sky, shadows, and

light/dark.

Twinkle Twinkle Little Star

Discovery Table
Rada (29 months), Cora (20 months), Adam (32 months), and Maggie (17 months) are touching the pillow batting and pulling it apart using their hands, fingers, and tongs, representing the Indiana Standards P.5.3 and P.5.5. The children also pushed the pillow batting into the cardboard tubes that were in the discovery table.

Science/Math
Gavin (32 months), pictured to the left, explored and pulled the pulley system that moved a star mobile from side to side representing the Indiana Standard M.4.1. Other children like Soo-ah (23 months) and Skylar (32 months) pictured to the right, interacted with the pulley system by working as a team. One child would pull a handle making the other handle rise, then the other child would pull that handle down.

Dramatic Play Toby (32 months), Adriana (21 months), Erin (42
months), Lily (39 months), Sasha (39 months), and Katelynn (38 months) were all looking up at the ceiling at the hanging stars and airplane, and the four pictures that were taped to the ceiling, representing the Indiana Standard SE.2.19. The four pictures on the ceiling were as follows; an airplane, a helicopter, a kite, and a hot air balloon. Adriana (21 months), Toby (32 months), Erin (42 months), Sasha (39 months), Maggie (17 months), and Katelynn (38 months), pictured to the right, danced to music in front of the projector during our gross motor time, representing the Indiana Standard, FA1.98 and P.1.9. The children watched their shadows move as they danced. Toby commented on how his shadow got smaller as he walked to the screen and then how it grew larger as he walked away from the screen.

Circle Time & Gross Motor During circle time Berenger (10 months),
Adriana (21 months), Toby (32 months), Soo-ah (23 months), Matthieu (24 months), and Skylar (32 months), pictured to the left, looked and listened to Miss Moody read the story, Guess Whose Shadow?, representing the Indiana Foundation, ELA.1.2. After reading the book, we sang the song Twinkle Twinkle Little Star together.

art activities built upon one another as A theThe week progressed. In the beginning of the r week Skylar (32 months) and Abbi (34 months), pictured below, used different t

shades of blue paint and paint brushes to paint on white pieces of construction paper, representing the Indiana Standard P.5.1.

As the week progressed, the children painted with a shaving cream/glue mixture on top of their blue painted paper, representing the Indiana Standard FA. 1.69. At the end of the week Lily (39 months), Erin (42 months), Sasha (39 months), and Katelynn (38 months), pictured above, painted with glitter glue on top of their blue painted and shaving cream/glue mixture papers from earlier in the week and then placed cotton balls in the glue.

Ariel Moody Spring 2013 3/18/2013-3/22/2013 Circle Classroom FCFC465: Practicum Theme: Twinkle Twinkle Little Star