Literature: The Three Little Pigs, The House that Jack Built, The Best Nest, Where Do I Live?, Maisy's House
Dramatic Play: I pulled out the big 3 Little Pig house backdrops that I painted years ago. They still provide so much fun with this unit every year. I failed to take a single picture of them, but there are pics of them from past years on the blog, so good enough ;)
I also had a flannel board story of the 3 Little Pigs. Can you believe only 1 out of 6 children recognized the story? They were horrified that the big bad wolf would eat the big, or destroy his home. Kids books are too soft, these days! Haha Gotta pull out the classics for a bad guy--especially one that meets his demise in a pot in the fireplace at the end of the book!
H is for Handy men and women. They hammered, sawed, screwed, painted, measured, painted and fixed everything in our classroom today! The toy tool collection seems to grow every year. I need to invest in a little workbench.
H is for House
We build a town of log cabins
Music: The House that Jack Built, My Hat Has 3 Corners
Fine Motor: house stencils
Math: Doghouse Pattern Bingo
This was a fun group activity. It's like a combo of tic tac toe and bingo. The children draw cards with a color, pattern, or shape on them, and then place a dog on their sheet (with 9 doghouse so it, each sporting different colors, patterns, and shape tags on them). Three doghouses in a row wins!
Snack: before we loaded up the plates with banana circles and more pretzels, the kids made a letter H with pretzel sticks.
Art: painting birdhouses. I have a puppet set of birds and a wooden birdhouse for when we read The Best Nest by P.D. Eastman. The kids painted their own "best nests" and I interviewed each totall me about where they live for the class book.
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