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During our unit on the body, we discussed how the heart beats in a steady rhythm. We then practiced patting our own rhythm during our morning greeting. We layered music and patterns to help make connections.

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The 2s used visual art by viewing photographs of themselves and their peers in bug finders. They examined the photographs to practice recognizing their peers by name and viewing what makes everyone unique.

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Babies in Hamm's Parent Infant Class enjoy listening and hearing the differences in sounds.

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Babies in Hamm's Parent Infant Class enjoy listening and hearing the differences in sounds.

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The Kenan 2s studied "All About Me" and discussed movements of their bodies. They practiced moving and stopping their body by playing Freeze Dance

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Modlin - Hamm T4's STEAM PD (Art Integration)

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Modlin - Hamm T4's STEAM PD (Art Integration)

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These students used shape cut outs to create animals from the story "The Farm", a book they had read in class.

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A clip from a parent-child session. We were singing/chanting in English and Spanish to practice parts of the body.

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Using a "bus" type container, have students pull "authentic pictures" from a school bus out of the bag and sing the verse from "The Wheels on the Bus" that connect to the picture.

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Give each student a bag of different pasta. Use the pasta to reflect how they are feeling at the moment or have them imagine an event (trip to the park) and have them create with pasta how that event would make them feel.

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Building our homes, learning are shapes and being creative in our own way, is what we love!

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Higgledee Wiggledee Bumble Bee... Can You Say Your Name For Me?

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Connecting our apple theme to our reading of Bad Case of the Stripes, the students created their own patterned apple.

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This week's theme was My Family. Boulders independently created process art pictures of their houses using different shapes (given a model).

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OT, Ms. Chris, helped Rockies A students create faces on tennis balls to be used for fine motor exercises.

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This week's theme is My Body/My Senses, so we traced the children's bodies and had them label the different parts: head, eye, nose, mouth, ear, shoulders, arm, hand, fingers, leg, and foot.

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McLemore- Hamm Toddler Learning Group-STEAM PD- Art & Music

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McLemore- Hamm Toddler Learning Group-STEAM PD- Art & Music

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This week's theme in the Toddler group was My Family/My Friends. The children incorporated art with language by working together to make buddy prints. A song was introduced at the end to incorporate music within the activity. Singing and getting messy make for a great day!

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Coleman - Kenan Older 3s - STEAM PD - Music

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Coleman - Kenan Older 3s - STEAM PD - Music

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Our class integrates short songs and rhythmic chants throughout the day. This helps the students transition, stay on task, and follow directions.

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In The boulders Class, we have been learning about the 5 senses and how they work in conjunction with our brains. Boulders would later take part in tasting marshmallows and skittles, Smelling cinnamon, listening for bells, looking for googly eyes and feeling pom poms.

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The Pebbles have been moving their bodies as they watch and listen. They enjoyed the challenge of keeping a close eye on Ms. Kelsey's body movements to follow along with alternating patterns.

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The Pebbles have been learning about their bodies and Mat Man.
They used long lines to tap to the beat of the music.  During this activity they practiced social referencing, keeping a rhythm, and executive functioning as they kept their eyes on Ms. Kelsey to start and stop tapping.

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This month's theme in Kenan Pre-K is color. We used vinegar and baking soda to experiment with mixing colors and observe how the materials react with one another. This experiment emphasizes the 3 primary colors and how they can mix to create secondary colors.

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Kellum-Steam Singing to a Farmer in the Dell

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Kellum-Steam Singing to a Farmer in the Dell

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Children learn best through doing. Music uses lots of regions in the brain. Wanting to involve the brain in learning library vocabulary we adapted a well known song to the definition of library terms. The music serves as a memory aid for this important terminology.

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After reading, Jack's Talent, by Maryann- Cocca-Leffler, students brainstormed talents that they possess. We also talked about drawing a self-portrait and adding detail to our drawing. Students worked during a center on an illustration depicting one of their talents. Using more than one color and drawing items that may be needed for their talent were encouraged.

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Paper plate self-portraits were integrated as part of our Family Unit. It taught us that we are all part of a family unit, we all look different, and it helped reinforce spatial awareness of our faces. Next year we plan to incorporate a mirror.

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Students created 3-dimensional self-portraits out of paper plates