Little Lumpty

The story we read today was titled Little Lumpty.  This story is a spin off for our new nursery rhyme "Humpty Dumpty."  In the town of Dumpty stands the high wall from which Humpty Dumpty fell long, long ago. Every day Little Lumpty passes the wall and dreams of climbing to the top. His mother warns him not to, but, at last, Little Lumpty cannot resist. He gets a ladder and climbs to the top of the wall. How wonderful he feels, if only his friends could see him. And then he makes his big mistake: he looks down! He starts to shake and tremble, he cannot move from where he is sitting. "Help! Help!" he screams, fearing that he will end up scrambled like Humpty Dumpty. The townsfolk run to save him.  At this point in the story I stopped reading the book.  We then broke off into centers.  During center time the children made a brick wall and cut out their own Little Lumpty.  They then used their imagination to decide how Lumpty could get down from the wall.  Once they had their idea they used a marker to add details to their picture showing how Lumpty would get down.  Some children thought he would jump into some marshmallows, one child said he would use a leaf blower to get down, and another child said he would slide down a slide.  When I finished reading the story at closing circle the children learned that the real Little Lumpty is saved when the townsfolk hold out a blanket for him to jump on.

At another center the children took a plastic Easter egg and cracked it open.  They identified the object that was inside of it.  They then listened for the letter that made its beginning sound.  Lastly, they dotted the letter on their recording sheet.

Today we also started a new grocery store play theme.  If your child would like they may bring clean, empty food containers to school to add to our store.

 This week we are also going to be scientists.  I found an egg(not a real one) and brought to class.  The children predicted what will hatch from the egg.  Over the next few days we will observe the egg for changes.  Once an animal hatches from the egg we will make a conclusion to our experiment.