Even more trains

Thursday:

Art Smart: We did train wheel painting using circles. We used the inside of various tape rolls and cut paper tube rolls. The Cockatoo’s dipped the circles in paint and then made prints on their paper.

Math Counts: Several of our friends worked together to complete the train puzzle with very little help from Ms. Chrissy. They worked great together taking turns and trying to fit various pieces together.

After the puzzle was done, everyone was very excited. We lined up chairs and pretended to go on our own train ride. We sang a song we made up called “Wheels on the Train.”

Language Works: The literacy students from Roosevelt visited and read the story The Teacher from the Black Lagoon by Mike Thaler. They brought a dragon puppet that looked like a character from the book. The children loved interacting with the puppet. After the students left we took out our own puppets to play with.

Friday:

Trains: David brought in a cool bridge to connect to our train tracks. We made a big track and followed the tracks. We also used a train track play mat that Ms. Chrissy brought in. Felix brought in a train that moved and made train noises. We sat in a big circle and shared the trains. We had the train come to each of us and took turns turning the train towards are friends.

This picture was taken at the beginning of the day. David loves this puzzle!