WEEK 4: YOU’RE A STAR!
For the fourth week it was all about you! We talked about actors, actresses, puppets and of course the theater. At the beginning of the program we discussed the plays or recitals that we had been a part of, and if we ever got nervous while performing!
We started storytime, as always, with our wiggle and jiggle song and we all sat like a quiet audience while we read the first story:
actresses rely a lot on their facial expressions, we decided to see how many expressions we could do. So we were all happy, sad, angry, hungry, tired (this one wasn’t too hard to pretend in the morning class :p) cold, hot and excited!
We seemed to be on the theme of backstage cats today because the second book that we read was :
The first activity that we did was discovering emotions. Since actors and
We seemed to be on the theme of backstage cats today because the second book that we read was :
We loosened up our tongues with some tongue-twisters here are some of the tough sayings we said:
- She sells seashells on the seashore.
- Flash message. Flash message.
- Mix a box of mixed biscuits with a boxed
biscuit mixer.
- A proper copper coffee pot.
- I saw Esau sitting on a seesaw. Esau, he
saw me.
- Toy boat. Toy boat. Toy boat.
- Lovely lemon liniment.
- Six thick thistle sticks. Six thick
thistles stick.
The last book we read was:
We had a giant dance
party ourselves and we all showed each other our best dance party moves!
Our craft for today
was different animal puppets, by the end of the program we had owls, tigers,
frogs and elephants lurking around!
You can check out
all the different paper bag animals at this website! http://www.dltk-kids.com/type/paper_bag.htm
Bring your
magnifying glass and sleuthing skills because next week we will be asking
ourselves Whodunit? It will be a week of mystery, detectives and sleuthing!
Don’t forget to
bring in your reading notebook next time, with all your readings from the past
week so you can enter into the weekly prize. The prize will be drawn Friday at
4:00!
