...and they like boxes, pillows, yarn, fish and turning pages! Three cats - Moonpie, Tiny and André -in this colorful, interactive book by Viviane Schwarz introduced us to fun new words and opposites.
The children were very excited that they were asked by the cats to "turn the page!" and "open the boxes" and "blow on the page" to help the cats dry off after a fishy tidal wave (the cats were very thankful, and fluffy!) Then, we had fun opening and closing a box, rattling it to see if it was loud or quiet, and putting different colored balls in and out of the box - careful listening was required! Our project this week used yarn - the cats' favorite thing! The children practiced cutting and gluing colorful yarn onto Moonpie, Tiny and André.
The results were fun!
After our project we sang Tall & Small, and played with our parachute making the colorful balls fly up and down. Our stamp dialogue for today was about - what else? A cat! A blue cat like Moonpie! (and we all had to blow on our stamps to help dry them.)
Musical Accompaniment: Suite for Flute and Jazz Piano - Claude Bolling
Vocabulary: page, purr, yarn, red, yellow, blue, box,open, close, pillow, pillow fight, fish, tidal wave, dry, blow, fluffy, goodnight kiss, yawn, blanket, glue, scissors, up, down, tall, small, loud, quiet, listen
Phrases: turn the page; blow on the page; open the box; close the box; shake the box; take the red ball; put the blue ball back into the box; glue the string onto the cat/piece of paper; sticky fingers; wash your hands
