Working on our letter recognition, fine motor skills and our writing skills! 💗✍️
For Black History Month, in Miss Bellor’s class, we will learn about how people have passion to show others a part of them. We learn about many people through black history month that have truly struggled to express themselves. In this bright colored story, a little girl named Alma, learns that it's perfectly wonderful to shine…by just being herself!
The spaces in her art ended up creating masterpieces!! It shows us that color doesn’t matter; however, together, color makes the world shine!
If you haven’t read or learned about this great artist, we urge you to check your local library to see if they have it! It is a great way to show that appreciation toward others is simply by being YOU! We must celebrate all colors in the world!!
BLACK HISTORY MONTH PRESCHOOL ACTIVITY
Every year we are inspired to share Black History Month lessons in our PreK classroom. In all the diversity training and anti-racist seminars and books , one clear point is that when we teach lessons about Black History to young children, we need to focus on a strength-focused, joyful view of Black history and figures. This month’s point is to celebrate Black Americans’ joy and accomplishments. This doesn’t mean we don’t address racism or injustice, but it’s not the focus.
BLACK HISTORY MONTH PRESCHOOL LESSON ABOUT ALMA THOMAS
You will find Alma Thomas’s art at the Art Institute of Chicago.
The bright colors and mosaic like appearance of The Starry Night made it stand out from the other contemporary art in the gallery. To introduce this Black History Month activity and the lesson I start with a simple question “Who was Alma Thomas?”
She was a GREAT artist!! Her creations involved spaces...dashes, between the color she used.
Alma’s Art by Roda Ahmed is a simple book that focuses on color and how Alma created so beautifully with it. This is a great book for toddlers and preschoolers. It is bright and inviting, and while it does dive a little into Alma’s life, it’s more about her love and brilliant use of color.
Alma loved color. To more deeply connect my students to Alma Thomas it’s time to ask them about color. Specifically what their favorite color of the rainbow is. It connects children to the person at the center of this lesson; Alma Thomas, it has a dash of name recognition, and of course it is an excellent example of a demonstration of gathering information and sorting it using a graph.
Now it’s time to step into Alma’s shoes and paint like she did using bright colors and mosaic-like patterns. The main lesson I am trying to teach my students with this is to see how dashes and dots of colors can work together to make designs. They are welcome to make whatever they want with whatever colors they wish, but we are going to TRY to make space between the dashes to explore a new understanding of how colors create amazing images.
We had so much fun with our Christmas cookie cutter science experiment!🎄
What will happen to our Candy canes? 🍬
Working on our fine motor skills Christmas addition 🎄❄️
Enjoying all of our new holiday items! 🎄🎅
What will leaf man be? 🍁 🍂
Mrs. Ellen brought her friend Tom the turkey in for the class! She taught us all about Turkeys! 🦃
Halloween celebration was a success!! 🎃
It's always a good day when you get to ride the preschool bus to work!
Pumpkin smashing fun today with Miss Keely's class!
Exploring pumpkins!!
In case you missed our first Family Participation Group yesterday, some great resources from the Bay County Mid Michigan Community Action have been placed out on the table in our lobby - please stop by and take a look! There are resources on temporary shelter services and rental assistance as well as help with foreclosure, property taxes, and energy bills!
How will we open our pumpkin? We need to smash it! 🎃
Enjoying apple taste testing and making a graph to see what apple everyone likes the most. The children said the apples were sweet and sour. The red apple was the winner at Mrs. Sarah's table! 🍎🍏
Enjoying the new sensory table of apples! 🍎 🍏
It's apple season in Ms. Tami's class! 🍎🍏
Lots of Preschool Bobcats with school spirit today!
I was able to get into some classrooms today for Hat Day and Small Group Activities
Enjoying all the new Halloween materials in the classroom!! 🎃
