Reading Between the Lines with Ms. Cara: Three year olds are the best Artist!

I has been a little while since my last post and I will say that things have been wild for me lately. I will tell you a secret.... becoming a teacher takes a whole lot of time and effort. Recently I wrote a paper that if I didn't pass I would not continue on in my program. Lucky for me I received a 94% which I think is pretty darn good. Also since we last spoke I have started visiting a new school where I will begin teaching reading and phonics lessons for the rest of my semester. Also my internet was out for a bit so needless to say things have been a little crazy at Ms. Cara's house.
For the past few weeks I have been doing some great art with my three year olds and I can not wait to share this with you.
First we read, "This is Not My Hat" by Jon Klesson. This book won the Caldicott award for 2013 and I personally think it is an amazing book. This is the story of a little bitty fish that takes a hat from a great big fish. He thinks he will get away with it, but the big fish is hot on his trail. I love this book for predictions because the kids just say the funniest things about it.

http://www.amazon.com/This-Is-Not-My-Hat/dp/0763655996/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1381713562&sr=8-1&keywords=This+is+not+my+Hat

For our project, we made hats and fish. The hat is just a drawing that I did and the children colored it in with markers. The fish is a fish that I drew and then we glued pieces of construction paper. I love how each child's art work shows their own personality.

We also read a book that is called "About a Bear". This is the story of a bear and he is getting ready for the winter. While this is a book that I am less wild about it is a great book for a preschool classroom or for early readers. The words are simple and the story is easy to follow.

http://www.amazon.com/About-Bear-Holly-Surplice/dp/1589251121/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1381714770&sr=8-1&keywords=about+a+bear

For our art project, I wanted to do something very fall so I decided to make a fall scene snow globe. For this, I took a plastic sandwich bag and filled it with hole punches of all different fall colors to make the leaves. I drew a fall scene with trees for the children to color. After the children color all of this is stapled to a blue piece of paper to create the sky. I personally think they turned out amazingly well.