Circle Hunt

With circles being our shape of the week, I had to find a gross-motor activity involving them.  I decided on a shape hunt.  Each child had one minute to find something in our classroom that had a circle on it.  I don't think anyone needed the full minute, because it seems that our room is full of circles (circles on the baby gate, storage boxes and wheels were popular, but pans from the kitchen set and examples from our artwork also popped up.

We also completed our first worksheet.  It's not something I do a lot of, but I found pages from a shape book that I had when I taught pre-K in summer school several years ago (like 9 or 10-can I say "packrat!").  The kids had a great time talking to each other about where the circles could be found and most spent time really "working" on the page.  I'm very impressed!

Then we were on to Play-Doh.  Today the kids were armed with circle cutters and letter A cutters and stamps.  Of course for the little ones, poking at the dough was great fun too!