Indians

Once again I am behind on posting things up on the website!

I hope everyone had a marvelous Thanksgiving holiday.  I cannot believe that Christmas is 15 days away!!  Where has the year and time gone?  Anyways, the last week of November when we came back from our super long break we learned about Indians as well as the letter Gg, 4, orange/brown and a square. 

We learned some traditional games that the Native American children played.  One was land and water.  I put a large square made from tape on the floor which was our water.  The land was everywhere outside of the square.  When I would call out 'go to the water' they would jump into the square.  When our canoe was starting to sink we could swin to land.  While they were on land I had Native American music playing in the background.  We discussed why the water was so important to the Native Americans.  Along with our games we learned the song, '10 Little Indians.'  Since there were 10 preschoolers, acting out the song made it much more fun!

We then made little handprint Indians.  I painted their palms a peach color and then each finger had a different color (for the feathers).  When they dried, a face was drawn on each one.  I'm sorry I don't have a picture.  We also made feather bands and vests from brown paper grocery bags.  Those turned out cute! When we put everything on, I had one preschooler say, "we all are now aliens!"  He couldn't quite say the word Indian (had to work on that one :) ).