Eric Carle has taken over our classroom!! We've been reading some of our favorite books of his... "Brown Bear, Brown Bear", "The Very Quiet Cricket", "Little Cloud", "The Very Hungry Caterpillar" and "From Head to Toe." We talked about Eric Carle not only as an author, but also as an illustrator. The children learned how he used different color paints, and different utensils to paint, and make beautiful collages. We even made our own collages!
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| Matching colored pom poms to animals from "Brown Bear" |
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| "Brown Bear" puzzle |
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| "Brown Bear" puzzle |
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| counting caterpillars on a leaf |
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| matching colors |
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| layering colors like Eric Carle |
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| layering colors like Eric Carle |
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| making a collage of colors |
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| making a collage of colors |
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| making a collage of colors |
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| making fingerprint caterpillars |
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| making fingerprint caterpillars |
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| bleeding tissue paper to blend colors |
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bleeding tissue paper to blend colors
After reading "Little Cloud," we looked outside to see what the clouds looked like to us. Some of the answers:
"A hat"...Meli
"A dinosaur".... Dovid
"A tree".... Yosef Sion
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We spent the week learning how Eric Carle paints colors on top of other colors, and uses different tools to do this. First, every child was given colored paper to paint on, using toothbrushes, paintbrushes, corks, even lego pieces!
When the paint dried, the children cut up the paper into small pieces.
We then glued the small pieces together to make a colorful collage, that was sent home today!
When we weren't learning about Eric Carle, we were learning about the letter aleph... airplane....
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| making an aleph out of pipe cleaners |
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| making an aleph out of pipe cleaners |
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| making aleph puppets |
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making aleph puppets
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doing puppet shows....
building with blocks....
having fun with Morah Lili...
doing yoga with Morah Bayla,
and playing on the playground!
We ended our week with a shabbat party.. thank you to our Shabbat Ema, Naomi, for the special treats!
