This lesson exposes kindergarten students to classical music and encourages creative drawing. Each child receives a blank piece of paper and a pencil or several crayons. The teacher plays a classical song on the CD player and asks the students to draw what they think the song is about. Choose a song with varying melodies, such as one of Vivaldi's "Four Seasons" compositions. Go around the room when the song finishes and ask the students to describe what they drew and why.
Students expand on their understanding and application of the alphabet by making letter journals. A letter journal is a book where students glue one precut fabric letter to each page and draw related pictures around the letter. For example, a student would paste a corduroy D to the page, write "Dog" and draw pictures of a dog next to the letter. Use different fabrics for each letter to encourage sensory stimulation and let the children choose which fabric they want for the next letter. Purchase fabric scraps at a local thrift store for a few dollars.
Children create structures using toothpicks connected through small balls of modeling clay. The goal is to make a structure that stands by itself. Show pictures or completed projects so the students see which types of structures stand on their own, such as squares, rectangles and hexagons. Discuss the shapes with the students as they build their structures and explain why a certain shape, like a square, stands up by itself better than a single straight line of connected toothpicks.
Let the kindergarten kids stage their own puppet show production based on a subject covered in school. For example, if the class is studying dinosaurs, break the children into groups of four or five and give each child a puppet. Suggest general scenarios for the children to act out with their puppets, like how dinosaurs eat food, or how they move in families. Avoid specific instruction unless the children get completely off track.