Who's Behind the Pumpkin

For the week of November 28th to December 2nd, we continued to work on using the "p" sound in words.  For Large Group, we played a game that helped us practice using the "p" sound in words.  This game also helped us work on answering "wh" questions and using correct pronouns in sentences.  We each took a turn hiding behind a big pumpkin while our friends in class sang a song that goes like this:

Who's behind the pumpkin?  Nobody knows but him/her (depending on if it was a boy or girl behind the pumpkin).

He/She won't tell you. You will have to guess.

While we were hiding behind the pumpkin, we chose a hat to put on.  We got to choose from many different hats.  

When Teacher Heidi moved the pumpkin away, she would as our friends in the class..."Who is it?"  We answered her "wh" question and  practiced saying the names of our friends in class by saying who was behind the pumpkin.  If we were the one behind the pumpkin, we got to tell the class who or what we were based on the hat we chose.  We were pirates, cowboys, construction workers, owls, cats, clowns, lions, football players etc...  

After we told our friends in class what we were, we would all practice saying it in a sentence.  This was done like this;

"He/She is a cat."

We then would act like a cat.

We had fun playing this guessing game, taking turns wearing different hats and moving our bodies like different people or animals would.  If we were pirates we said arrrgh, if we were a cowboy we pretended to have a lasso and said YAHOO, if we were a cat we crawled around and said MEOW and if we were a construction worker, we pretended to hammer nails.