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NURSERY
RHYMES: Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star
Little Jack Horner
Stars to hang from the ceiling for the month:
*Creative Art (within
the limits of a theme): Provide lots of collage materials for children
to glue onto various sizes of stars that have been cut from various types of paper.
*Fine Motor: Provide
each child with a very stiff cardboard star. Let them choose a color of
colored foil wrap. They then wrap their stars with the foil. No, they
won't look perfectly wrapped -- but it is their classroom after all, and they
will enjoy their stars!
Variation:
As much as I like how the above stars look hanging from the ceiling, colored foil
isn't cheap and you have to provide rather large pieces to allow for wrapping
around all the points of a star. So, one year, I did what I feared would
be totally awful but it turned out great. I had the children wrap their
stars in plain aluminum foil, and then I had them choose "only collage materials
that could be crunched into tiny wads" for gluing onto their foil-wrapped stars.
The process of finding "wadding" materials was a unique experience in itself!
For example, the children learned that short lengths of yarn don't "wad up" very
well, and tissue paper squares were easier to wad than fabric squares.
Of course, glitter will always add twinkle to star projects.
Special Snack: Have the children cookie-cut star shapes from sugar cookie dough and then sprinkle the tops of them with colored sugar to make their stars sparkle!
Hey, don't forget, you can cut an apple in half to see a Christmas star!
From
Stormie:
My
very favorite activities for "Little Jack Horner" have been reserved for
my "NURSERY RHYMES"
booklet (see the "Stormie's Stuff for Teachers" section
of my website). I will create more activities for posting here whenever
I can get to it.
Also this reminder:
If you would like to begin collecting ALL my current classroom ideas (each on
a 4 x 6" index card), as well as new ones that I create, you can do so by
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