Transition Song: Bouncy Bouncy Bouncy
Materials: laminated letter B, small box, balloons
Vocabulary and Basic Concepts: high/low, empty/full, descriptive words big/bigger/biggest, predicting, blow/blowing, bounce/bouncing/bounced, sitting, standing, turn-taking, hands, heads, elbows, “My turn”, pop, more
First we drew the Letter B. "Start at the top and draw down. Go back to the top and bounce around." What words have the /b/ sound in them? The children came up with baby, bus, bumblebee, and bump.
Miss Carrie showed us a box. It was a little box but it had something inside. Something small that would get bigger.
Wow! It was a lot of balloons! Red, yellow, green, light blue, dark blue, pink, orange, and purple. What did Miss Carrie need to do to make the balloon get bigger? The children suggested she blow into the balloon.
That balloon grew big and then bigger! Miss Carrie tied the balloon and then asked "What should we do with the balloon? Children suggested bouncing it. Or hitting it with their hands. Or bumping it with their head. There were a lot of balloons, enough for everyone to have one to play with. So the teachers helped blow up more balloons. And then this happened:
We talked about What our balloons were doing, Where they went, and Who we could ask to send them back. Did they go high or low when we hit them? Were they heavy or light? We talked about colors and compared sizes: "My balloon is bigger/smaller." Sometimes we just expressed "My balloon" when we wanted it back.
DO THIS AT HOME: have fun playing with balloons. Get the entire family involved and talk about what you are doing, where the balloon goes, and who has it. If it pops, talk about the loud noise and what you can do so it doesn't pop again.
