Houses, spiders and lots of hugs

Dear everyone!

Is it me or have the last 5 weeks gone by very fast? But I guess time always goes fast when you’re having fun!

In the last blog you can read about the start of our IPC unit Houses and Homes. We continued the unit by being introduced to the story of the Three Little Pigs. Some of them knew the story, others didn’t! Everyone still enjoyed it very much. We got to know the three different types of material that are talked about in the story: straw, wood and brick. Using figurines we got to experiment with puppet play. The children were able to use the figurines of the story (the three pigs, the wolf, the different houses) to play the story for each other. We learned how to move the puppets and tell the story but also how to listen to each other and give applause.

Together we made our own brick house using little bricks and cement (flour and water). Using the pen grip we placed the bricks carefully onto each other and we put the right amount of cement in between (not too much, not too little). We had to be very careful and we were all concentrated doing it!

We got to celebrate Malin’s birthday by singing her birthday song, jumping to ‘three’ and we made her a nice crown! Happy Birthday Malin!

We also learned about different furniture that we can find in and around a house. We learned how to play the gme ‘Who What Where?’ that teaches us what items go where in the house. With all this in mind we designed our own house using a shoebox, paint, cutouts of furniture and anything else that the children wanted to use to personalize their house. The result was unique and lovely to see! We had a lot of fun doing it.

We got to explore different kind of shapes. With those shapes and glue we made more houses!  We used our imagination, creativity and had to think about the composition of our houses. The children had a lot of fun doing it, seeing their houses come to life while sticking the shapes on the paper. After we finished the houses, the children came up with the idea to make a street where those houses would go on. Unlimited creativity in LPP! :)

We read two different books about animal homes. It taught us that different animals live in different types of homes according to their size and needs/habits. The ones the children liked the most were the spider and his spider web and the bat who lives in a cave!

We made spider webs by weaving rope and also a spider of course. The children came up with the idea to make a big tree so that we could hang up the spider webs we made. It was a big success! We learned the song Itsy Bitsy spider and we used instruments to play the song as well! I brought my guitar and we played music like a real band!

We practiced counting and recognizing numbers by counting spiders and finding their matching spider web. And also, how many legs does a spider have? We counted the legs and found out they have 8! With plasticine we made spiders with exactly 8 legs!

It was lovely to see that everybody in LPP came dressed up to school for our Halloween party. We had a ladybug, a fish (Dori), a monkey, a cow, a penguin, a pumpkin princess, a witch, a frozen princess (me) and a leprechaun (miss Anne)!

For our last activity together we made sugar cookies! Yum!!

I would like to thank all the parents for your trust, cooperation and many lovely gifts! I also want to thank the whole ISG team for making me feel like family during these 5 months. A special thank you to the Lower Primary teachers miss Anya, miss Mia and miss Inbal for all your support. Of course I also want to thank miss Anne and miss Reccarda for all your help!

I had a wonderful time and will miss everybody very much! I will come and visit soon.

Love

Miss Lori