Shoo FLY!

This morning in the Touch and Feel pool was different colored yarn. The kids lined up the yarn from shortest to longest. We also used the yarn to make upper and lower case letters. During morning circle the kids met the occupational therapist assistant interns Ms. Kelly, Ms. Kristin and Ms. Stephanie that will be working with us on Wednesdays. We reviewed the letter H and practiced identifying words that rhyme.

Ms. Abby was here today...and the kids were so excited to see her! It was too cold to go outside so we practiced running and jumping inside. After we warmed up our bodies, we practiced jumping through hoops. Then the kids completed an obstacle course. They jumped over and crawled under hurdles, then hopscotched to the finish line. The last activity was a relay race. The kids first had to run from one end of the room to the other with a bean bag and then when they got back to the start, they had to do it again.... but this time hopping.  Lots of laughing.....LOTS of cheering for each other!  So glad to have Ms. Abby back.....can't wait until it warms up and we can get outside!

 The story today was There Was An Old Lady Who Swallowed a Fly by Simms Taback. The story tells a tale of an old lady who swallows a fly.....and tries to fix it by swallowing a spider to catch the fly.....and a bird to catch the spider.....and a cat to catch the bird....and so on and so forth! A hole allows readers to see inside her belly, first the critters already devoured and, with the turn of the page, the new animal that will join the crowd in her ever-expanding stomach.  The kids LOVED this book....clearly some of them had heard it before!

After the book, we sequenced all the animals that the old lady ate using picture cards.  We talked about the size of the animals using words like bigger and biggest.  Everyone agreed that nobody could really eat all those animals.....and even if they could.....it would be super yucky!

We learned some interesting facts about flies today.  They are insects....so everything we already know applies.....6 legs,  3 body parts (head, thorax, abdomen), wings, and 2 antennae.  Flies spread germs and like smelly, rotten foods.  They also have no teeth and really big eyes!

For art we made flies.  The kids put together the 3 body parts, added 6 legs, big eyes, and wings.  The wings were super special because they were filled with yarn to give them some 3-D texture.  We labeled our picture with the word FLY.....and flew around the room.