Monthly Archives: September 2013

The children had the opportunity to explore paint at the art table in the outside play yard on Tuesday and Wednesday the 10th and 11th September. Room 1 teachers offered the children primary colors (red, yellow, blue) to use. During the activity the teacher spoke to them about how they moved their brushes by using words such as round, across, up and down, fast and slow, and mix. Exploring paint is also a great way for young children to learn about cause and effect as they see how two colors mixed together make a new color. For example, yellow and blue makes green. This is a simple science experiment for toddlers.

As Room One children play with the sensory tub materials, they begin to understand concepts such as more/less, full/empty and cold/warm . Sensory experiences provide open-ended opportunities where the process is more important than the product – how children use the materials is much more important than what he/she makes with them. Sensory experiences are thought-provoking because each child can use the materials differently.

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During the past few weeks we have been reading the books Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See? by Eric Carle and The Wheels On the Bus by Jane Cabrera.The children have really enjoyed these two books during story time and throughout the day they have also chosen to look at books by themselves or have a teacher read to them.

Music and Movement: We have been dancing and singing to the songs the ABC’s, The Wheels On The Bus, The Itsy Bitsy Spider and Twinkle, Twinkle Little star, and the Freeze.As children listen, sing, dance and enjoy music, they can develop skills in math(rhythm) and literacy.

Another song that we sing to help the children get ready for transitions is our clean up song. While singing this song the children help clean-up the environment and take ownership of their classroom. Here are lyrics to the song:

Clean up, clean up everybody everywhere.

Clean up, clean up everybody do your share.

I have also attached an article that is very informative about how beneficial it is for young children to be exposed to music and movement.

http://www.naeyc.org/files/yc/file/201003/ParlakianWeb0310.pdf