"The Week of the Young Child"
The week of the Young Child is celebrating and embracing early learning, young children, teachers, and families. This annual event was created by the NAEYC to celebrate and bring awareness to the importance of early childhood education. Engaging and celebrating families is at the heart of supporting our youngest learners. Throughout the week of the young child, each day we engaged, participated, explored, discovered, and celebrated something different.
Monday: The children brought in their favorite musical instrument. They played and shared their instruments with their peers. We also explored and experimented using recycled materials to make shakers. As the teacher shook the instrument five times, they shook their musical instrument five times. Incorporating math and understanding number sense, enable children to learn to count and recognize numbers.
Tuesday: We made strawberry, blueberry, and banana smoothie. The children were so excited to have a taste of the delicious smoothie as it mixed in the blender.
Wednesday: Working together Wednesday, the children continue painting their flower pots, and the children are working collaboratively to build a train out of four boxes. They are painting their first box in red. As they engage, we celebrate the unique role they each play in creating.
Thursday: "Creativity"- Different tools and paints are used in the art to create a fantastic art piece. We used something completely different that we have not used before, paint inside a balloon and plastic glove. This entails, filling up a balloon or glove with paint and puncture one or two holes; then the children will squeeze the paint onto the canvas. The children seemed excited to explore and manipulate the balloon using their hands and fingers. We will continue exploring and discovering different patterns, as they use this new technique on their paintings. The children used glue, glitter, and sequins on cd's to create suncatchers. They also explored and manipulated air dry clay by tapping, padding, squeezing, and molding it to a shape.
Friday: "Special Persons Day" The children planted seeds in a flower pot in which they adorned with different color paints. They also created a work of art on a square tile by using two colors each child selected with their special person.
The environment was filled with familiar and unfamiliar voices. We welcome everyone to be part of our classroom community and engage with the children, and teachers.
The children are working collaboratively to build a train out of four boxes. They are painting their first box in red. As they engage, we celebrate the unique role they each play in creating.
Different tools and paints are used in the art to create a fantastic art piece. Today we used something completely different that we have not used before, paint inside a balloon and plastic glove. This entails, filling up a balloon or glove with paint and puncture one or two holes; then the children will squeeze the paint onto the canvas. The children seemed excited to explore and manipulate the balloon using their hands and fingers. We will continue exploring and discovering different patterns, as they use this new technique on their paintings.
