We have been learning about mittens in pre-kindergarten. In mittens you have a place for your thumb and all your fingers are together. In gloves there is a place for your thumb but all your fingers have a place of their own and are apart. We read Jan Brett's "The Mitten" and then laced mittens of our own.
We learnt that a pattern repeats three times and we used the three primary colors red, yellow and blue. We then painted a striped pattern onto our 3-D mittens.
We wore our own mittens at circle time and made a graph that showed how many of us had mittens that were the same color. The black mittens won! We also played mitten tag in the gym. It was lots of fun.
Today we had a zoo in our classroom. It had fences made of trees and troughs made of cut tree rings. The animals all lived in twos in their pens. The rhinoceros had escaped so everyone was searching for it around the classroom. A tour of people then came to visit the zoo. The zookeepers tried to sell one of the people a giraffe but it wouldn't fit in the cage in their backyard. The monkey was for sale too because he bites. A biting monkey isn't good to have in a zoo. We had a great storyline and dialogue going on in our zoo play today. Remember to ask your child what is happening in their playtime at home. You may be surprised by their elaborate answer!
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