Catch a Falling Star
🎵Catch a falling star and put it in your pocket, never let it fade away
Catch a falling star and put it in your pocket, save it for a rainy day 🎶
🌟 Forming Gold & Silver Stars 🌟
Strips of gold and silver shiny paper were available for us to put glue together to make our very own star (or for some… a constellation! )
Together with Liezel and Kai, our little fingers got busy with pasting, aligning, and forming those beautiful lights we see up in the dark, cold night sky.
✨Colorful Drawing on the Night Sky ✨
The night sky is vast and sometimes we wish it could be more colorful aside from the bright light that the moon and stars offer. With a wide spread of black paper presented upright, we filled the “night sky” with colorful drawings using oil pastels to make the colors pop out.
It was interesting to see how each one of us drew our perspective on several things that we like such as Anpanman and cars. Having the canvas in an upright position allowed our bodies to be in a different position while drawing & scribbling. Using oil pastels provided us a sensory experience as it it’s texture was rather different from normal crayons and it felt “oily” and “mushy” when we rub it in between our fingers.
And of course, as with most of our activities, it allowed us to practice social skills such as communicating, sharing, and taking turns. It was also funny when a few of us would suddenly climb behind the table and pop their heads up to say “Hello” to some of us who were busy drawing.
Furniture Free Play
There is a lot of things to do to keep our active bodies occupied. Our room was bursting with shrieks of excitement as we got to play around big objects and furnitures! Here’s what we did:
1. Round cushions can be turned into beds, stairs, and wheels. Stepping on cushions can be slippery so we must be cautious! When we fall, our teachers encourage us to get back up on our own… let’s start building resiliency!
2. A long paper tube can be used as a telescope! And of course, by using it, we had to be aware of our surroundings as to avoid hitting anyone.
3. The long blue tunnel can be crawled though, rolled around, and be an extra huge telescope!
Chairs were arranged to accommodate a few of us to watch a special song and dance performance that several of our friends did for us. Can you guess if they received a standing ovation 👏🏼?
Scarves Musical Play & Catch a Falling Star
Each of us were given a colorful scarf to dance along to (this is in preparation for our upcoming theme on the Northern Lights/Aurora Borealis by the end of this week). We also practiced folding it and were amazed as to the different shapes we formed as we our scarves shrank in size with each fold.
The weather seem to be in our favor as we learned Perry Como’s “Catch a Falling Star” and could relate with the last phrase… we are saving all the stars we caught during this cold, rainy day. We even made a little dance along with it! We hope our mommies and daddies can play the song too so that we can perform the special dance we made up.
Yellow Star Experiment
With wooden toothpicks slightly bent in halves and arranged as stars, we used plastic syringes to fill its insides with a special yellow potion (yellow food coloring) to make it bright! Our eyes widened with amazement!
How to Catch a Star Story Telling
Since stars can be visibly seen only during the night, a special stage was set to provide us with the night time feeling. A shiny cloth was draped on an easel that served as our platform to do an interactive story telling based on Oliver Jeffers’ story “How to Catch A Star”.
The story telling challenged us to put our “Thinking Hats” on as we had to figure out how the Boy can achieve his dream of reaching The ⭐️. Here were several scenarios:
1. Are trees tall enough to be climbed on top of to reach the ⭐️?
2. Can we lasso the star with a life belt?
3. How far up high can our rocket ship go to reach the star?
Lots of thoughts to ponder on to keep our minds thinking…
We hope all of you are keeping warm this cold winter day and we hope you get to see stars tonight!
Love,
Buds Class Children