Happy Friday! Another stay-at-home week is almost over. Here are some invitation ideas from our preschool teaching team.
Book Invitation: Walter’s Wonderful Web by Tim Hopgood.
You can watch a video of this book being read aloud if you don’t have it in your home collection. This book ties in to both the fine motor/art invitation and the large motor/outdoor activity for today.
Walter the spider demonstrates persistence in the face of repeated failure and uses simple lines to create something complex and wonderful.
Fine Motor/Art Invitation: Negative Space Tape Painting
For this activity you will need masking or painter’s tape, cardboard, and child-safe paint.
Consider asking your child, what design could you make with the tape? Can you make a web with your tape? What would happen if you painted over the tape and pulled the tape off after the paint dries?
Intention is to plan ahead in the child’s work based on the hypothetical realities of a cause and effect relationship.
Sensory Invitation: Add Natural Elements to your play dough.
Have your child collect natural materials (sticks, pine cones, shells, rocks, etc.) and use them with their play dough to create designs and sculptures. You can use home made play dough or commercial play dough for this invitation. You can find our favorite home made play dough recipe here.
Ask your child to draw a representation of their sculpture.
Intention is to extend cognitive development rooted in a single project by encouraging a child to keep going with a project by asking how can we add to this project, how can
we make it more elaborate?
Outdoor/Large Motor Invitation: Interacting with the web constructed on Thursday.
Throw the balls through the web without knocking the web over!!! Repair the web as needed!!
Ask what could we pretend the ball is? What kinds of things knock over a spiderweb?
What kinds of things would get caught?
We hope you have some moments of joy this weekend. We will be back with more invitations on Monday.