For our last post of the calendar year we thought it would be fun to look back at some old posts from the year. The sensory and fine motor groups explored some of our favorite materials. The language group made a yummy treat—-of course 🙂
SENSORY GROUP
We use colorful rice almost every week in our groups. This eye catching watermelon pink rice is one of our favorites!
We added a fun car to drive around the rice and a picture to find at the bottom of the box.
Science access point: track the movement of objects that are pushed or pulled.
All sorts of beans and peas find their way into our boxes, but these lentils have such a cool texture and they are are definitely one of favorites.
They are so much fun just to bury hands in, but we added a measuring cup and wide mouth funnel for even more fun!
Science access point: track a falling object.
Shiny colorful beads are always a hit with the students!
Fun to touch, look at, listen to, or wear!
Science access point: use senses to recognize objects.
Around here we LOVE kinetic sand! This stuff is so cool—-we just can’t stop touching it 🙂
Since the new year is just around the corner with put in 0 and 2 cookie cutter numbers.
Science access point: apply a push to move an object.
Slime isn’t something we use a lot but when we bring it out, the students are always intrigued.
Little teddies with letters F U N were included.
Science access point: recognize that pushing or pulling makes an object move (contact force).
We recently added some jello to shaving cream and thought the result was SO COOL we had to do it again!
The mixture ends up being sort of firm and very fluffy—–so much fun!
Science access point: recognize that pushing and pulling an object makes it move.
In the water play there were some rubber spiral noodles to scoop up using a sifter spoon.
We included two more measuring cups for additional scooping fun.
Math access point: recognize differences in sizes of containers that hold liquids.
Since our students are so awesome, we chose Bath and Body Works “mad about you” as our scent this week 🙂
The students really liked the aroma!
Science access point: recognize one or more external body parts.
FINE MOTOR GROUP
The fine motor group made cardboard gingerbread houses. We only had one group this week—-it is a busy time of year!
First, the students identified the color brown and shape of our houses.
Science access point: identify objects by one observable property, such as color.
Math access point: recognize common three-dimensional objects.
Then, the students painted their houses with a mixture of glue and shaving cream—-we just love homemade puffy paint!
Science access point: recognize that pushing and pulling an object makes it move.
The student chose to add glitter or confetti to their houses. We sang our glitter song—another favorite 🙂
Math access point: recognize when an object is added to a situation.
TA DA!!!
Look at our gingerbread houses……
……we are ready for the holidays!
LANGUAGE GROUP
We got to decorate some cute gingerbread cookies this week in our language group.
Each student first got to choose which gingerbread cookie they wanted. They got to choose from Santa Claus, a snowman, a Christmas tree, and a gingerbread man. Picture symbols of each type of cookie were available and students had to choose the one they wanted and place the picture on the sentence strip. They then had to request “I want ___ please” using the sentence strip.
Once they picked their cookie, they got to choose what color icing they wanted. They chose from red, green, white, and black. Again, they had to use the sentence strip in order to request what they wanted.
Finally, they got to choose from 3 different types of sprinkles. They requested help if they had difficulty getting the sprinkles onto the cookie.
We don’t usually do TADAs in our language group but we did today!
So many fun and yummy creations 🙂
Join us after the holidays for more fun and learning—–Group by Group!
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