Opera and Talents

 Opera and Talents

Daily Question: Oo Ostrich sings opera.  Do you like to sing?

It tickles me to see the children sign in now. They are no longer self conscious or worried they "can't" write their name. I remind them that we are learning how and doing it by practicing. Writing his/her own name is a Kindergarten prerequisite. Our class is really learning!

*Karina, William's mother, mentioned that his Grandparents ARE Opera singers!

Toys: (New) Fisher Price Construction set, Airport and Airplane, and FP Village, puppet theater, and hand puppets.

Students enjoyed listening about O the Ostrich whose occupation was singing opera in front of other ostriches, "O-o-o" (students put hands together in front of them and sing oah, oah, oah).

We "painted" O the Ostrich feathers with food dye and corn syrup. This was a lot of sticky fun and left a somewhat tacky but neat looking letter. 

 





This painting fascinates me--the textures as the children pull the blue dye into the corn syrup really do give a "feather like" appearance to the paintings.








 

Talents: We enjoyed reading Amazing Grace by Mary Hoffman and talking about the little black girl who loved to listen to and re-enact stories. She believed she could be (or portray) anyone and so she won the part of Peter Pan in a play. Children named talents: soccer, ballet, singing, drawing, painting, or serving others. Some of these come more easily to us and some talents require us to take classes, learn the rules, and work hard at it/them.

Circle Time Discussion:  Ostrich likes to sing.  What do you like to do?  What would you like to learn?  What do you think you will do when you grow up...?
Ethan:  A fireman (or a Knight).
Seth:  Spiderman!
Kayson:  A doctor.
William: A good pirate! 
Dade: A bad guy!  
Brody: Iron Man and a bad guy!  
Eva: A Princess!  
Miss Nikki:A Teacher (and a Mother!) 
Miss Julie:  A Mother (and a Teacher !)

Reading When I'm Big in Circle Time.

 "O" Spotting--We went outside to search for the letter Oo and also to spot any zeros/circles we could find.

Books on Talents:
*Amazing Grace by Mary Hoffman
Something Special
You Are Special!
You are Special by Max Lucado
When I'm Big by Nila Aye and Tim Drury