We learned about our home state this week, the Beehive State, Utah. We were excited to learn about where we live, and even more excited to visit the Gale Center Museum for our field trip!
We traced the shape of Utah with our toothpick dot art. This was a center that the children visited. Sometimes they leave their work in the preschool room, and I am not always sure who it belongs to, but every child had some practice with the shape of the state, along with the letters in its name.
We recite the pledge of allegiance every morning. We also talk about how many stars are on the flag, and why. Here we had an interactive map that named the 50 states as we touched them, so your children became somewhat familiar with where Utah is located in the United States.
We also had a globe that the children looked at, and this puzzle of the world they worked on.
This week was our first introduction to money. This week I simply let the kids play with the money and do their own exploration of what things they found as they looked at it. This giant sized money was a great way for them to see what is on each of the coins and bills. We will continue to talk about currency and what the coins are each called and what they are worth.
We talked about some of the things that Utah is famous for, like National Parks. We had a memory match up game with many of the national parks of Utah.
This center was filled with moon dough, which is flour with oil added to make it mold able, along with some trucks and construction workers. We talked about what materials are mined at Kennocott, and how it is big enough to see from space!
And, our week ended with a fun trip to the Gale Center Museum. This is a great little museum with some fun interactive hands-on learning stations where the kids learned about the cultures of Utah. They had a lot of fun, as you will surely see from their big smiles on their faces!
We can't wait to go again!
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