Spring Time

The 21st of September here in Buenos Aires is 'el Dia de Primavera ' which means a general celebration of spring time, I therefor decided that for class it would be fun to make very large flowers, with our feet !
If you look closely you can see that the petals are made from the children 's foot prints which left my floor very messy.
The boys finished making Dragons last week and are now working on making an aquarium out of a shoe box. With the older children we are also working on writing simple sentences to practice writing and reading skills.

Sock Babies!

This week with the little ones we made sock babies. These are made by stuffing socks with kitchen roll till they feel solid enough. Then you close them using a piece of string and pulling down the top to give your baby a hat. Lastly you add eyes, mouth and some buttons. The little ones loved their sock babies and would carry them around with them for the rest of the class. We also found time to make crocodiles from card.
The boys build a giant body to label and made rockets from plastic bottles.

Piggy Banks

Today we had a fun filled class making trees with potato printing. First we named the different parts of a tree and their colors. After making the trees we started on our 'piggy banks'. The children choose the color they wanted to paint then and ended by adding sparkling sequences.
As always we read our favorite story, Eric Carle 's 'From Head to Toe'. I am also teaching the children the song, 'heads, shoulders, knees and toes!