We really worked on learning the planets today. Jupiter is the largest. Venus is red hot. The moon has craters and more! The children loved painting those moon rocks (and yes I told them they were pretend ; ) ). We made moon craters out of molding foam and will bring them home on Thursday. It was a great fine motor activity as they had to pinch the clay to form the craters. Today we worked on tracing our names. This is the very beginning and I am working with them mostly on the proper hand position. At this age, they should only practice for 10 minutes at a time as their wrist and hand muscles begin to hurt! Fat pencils or markers are great to start with. Our first priority is working with uppercase letters.
We have been working on patterning and learning sizes. You can see here what a few of them did!
I have been working with the children on learning about spacial awareness. Keeping our hands to ourselves ( I say we are in a bubble and have to ask first if we can go in someone elses' bubble.) At this age, children are not aware of personal space and often don't like to be touched or hugged. (Many of them like to give hugs!)
Looking forward to Thursday, painting fireworks for the 4th of July! We'll be playing with Red, White and Blue molding foam too!
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