Week #2: The face of preschool.

We spent last week working on our faces. First, the kids made a round shape for a teacher to cut out. Then we used various shades of skin color paint to figure out what matched each student. Some kids were peach mixed with almond or chocolate, others were hazelnut mixed with olive, and others were straight peach or caramel. It was fun to figure out what shade we were.
After the paint dried on our shapes, we colored and cut out our facial features (eyes, nose, mouth) and made hair from rick rack or yarn.
When we were all done, Beth put them up on the wall. Next to the faces she put a drawing each child made at small group. Everyone thought of something they know how to do really well. They drew a picture and Beth wrote the words. This connected back to the book, Now I'm Big. In that book, kids talk about how they needed a lot of help when they were little babies, but now that they are big, they can do many things for themselves.
This whole activity also connects back to our word of the day on Wednesday, which was unique. As the kids discovered their special skin color and made their own pieces of their face, they found that each one of them was unique. No one else in the class was exactly the same.