preposition: inside

Tent Day!

I love camping so much and I am super excited to share this experience with my kiddos at school!
Today was tent day. I brought  a small tent (borrowed from my kiddos at home) and we pitched a tent. I don't think my kiddos at school have every paid so close attention to what I was doing! They were all intrigued.

Language Goals
Expressive Language: inside, and (review pronouns I, he/she)
Receptive Language: Where and Who questions

Once the tent has been pitched, take turns going inside the tent.
T: Andrew, go inside the tent. Where are you?
S: I am inside the tent!
T: (ask another student) Where is Andrew?
S: He is inside the tent.
Give each child a chance to be in the tent alone. Then call on 2 or more students to go inside the tent.
T: Yousef and Symone go inside the tent. Where are you?
S: Yousef and I are inside the tent (Or We are inside the tent)
Then put everyone inside the tent!

CENTERS
Make a tent-I searched all over the Internet for a tent craft and everything was so detailed that the kiddos wouldn't get to do much. So, I created my own. Using 5 toothpicks, clay, paper, crayons/markers and hot glue gun (adult use) we made a tent. Roll the clay into 6 small balls. Stick the toothpicks in the clay to form the tent shape.

Then give each child a precut rectangle to decorate. This will be the "tent" top. The adult will hot glue the tent top on the toothpicks. We set the tent on dark green construction paper rectangle.

Wash mess kit- at the water table, the kiddos washed the mess kits. I brought in  some washcloths and filled the tub with soap and water. What a messy fun time they had, but hey my floors got clean!

Tent play- I left the tent from the morning set up and let the kiddos play inside. I added a sleeping bag, flashlight and cooler for a fun dramatic play center.

Writing Center-The kiddos cut and glued a tent shape onto green paper. Then they wrote "I am inside the tent" on the paper. Some kiddos traced and some wrote on their  own. Then the kiddos glued pictures I had taken early inside the tent (each kiddo laid on the ground with head in hands for the pictures. Super cute!)