Native Americans, Pilgrims, and the Letter F!

• Our theme this week was Native Americans & Pilgrims. We incorporated this theme into our plans in many ways: 

• We read both fiction and non-fiction books about Native American & Pilgrims. 

 

• We put homemade Native American & Pilgrim tube people, a Lincoln Log Cabin, a Teepee, and a fire out in our discovery area. 

• We used Pilgrim & Native American Cutouts to practice making AB patterns. 
• We did a Native American &  Pilgrim picture sort and talked about the differences in clothing, houses, boats, hats, and shoes.
  
• We used Native American & Pilgrim picture and number puzzles.  

 

Number strip puzzles

• We made Native American head dresses out of paper and feathers, gave each other Native American names, and danced to samples of Native American and Colonial music.

• Our Native American names:
• Brooklyn - Short Rainbow
• Deklan - Little Bluff
• Trystin - Soaring Eagle
• Jasmyn - Moon Valley
• Miss Kendra - Hopping Frog
• Isaac - Wandering Buffalo
• Tom - Young Beaver
• Landon - Strong Pheasant
• Bishop - Wild Porcupine
• Brandon - Laughing Bear
• Kobe - Howling Wolf
• Aubrianna - Happy Raven
• Paige - Dew Drop
• Ainsley - Friendly Owl
• Miss Lorri - Mother Bear
• Mario - Smiling Rabbit

•  At Small Group: 
•  We used a turkey cutout (named Mr. Tom) to practice our colors by adding colorful turkey feathers.  

•  At Choice Time: 
•  We are still enjoying our grocery store! If you have any magazines with pictures of food in them, feel free to send them in for an upcoming project. 

•  Our “Letter of the Week” began this week with the letter ‘F’. We will be going in alphabetical order for the next 20 weeks. Some of our activities include: 
• Identifying the letter. 
• Saying the sound. 
• Searching the room for things that start with the letter of the week and feeding them to the “letter monster”. 

• Letter tracing pages in the writing area. 
• Bingo Dobber letter pages in the art area.
• Using white boards to practice writing the letter at large group. 
• Making our alphabet book page for each letter at small group.

•  At Choice Time:
• Block Area:

They worked on this for almost a the whole hour.

This was the first time they built with these long thin boards. They were very excited to find a use for them.

• Art Area:

We used paper tubes to make all kinds of things this week: rockets, robots, binoculars, brooms. They had a blast making their inventions.

Working on our headdresses!

This picture doesn't really fit anywhere, but it was too adorable not to share :)