Tuesday, September 30, 2008

The Pet I Want



We had way too much fun at our pet day! So much fun that the mommies forgot to take pictures! Oh No! In circle time we read about lots of different pets and learned about the letter E. We each shared what pet we liked best. In art we made these cute aquariums. Then we went together on a field trip to the Pet Store! It was so much fun! We saw lots of fun pets!

Corbin wants a turtle.
Grayson wants a pet tiger.
Rebekah wants a rabbit.
Andrew wants a cat.

Monday, September 29, 2008

Friends

Grayson got to open our day with the Alphabet Box. Grayson brought items that begin with the letter "D." He brought a dinosaur, a dump truck, a donkey, and a letter "D."
On Thursday we talked about "Friends." We read Gossie and Gertie, and Ollie. We played musical shares, it is like musical chairs, but instead of a child having to sit out when a chair is pulled away, the children need to figure out how to share what chairs are left.



Miss Andrea made great puzzles for the children today. She had close up pictures of all the children, and each picture was cut into thirds. The pictures were put on the floor and the children soon learned that the pictures were themselves. They had a lot of fun trading parts of their faces with their friends.


We played ring-around the roses. It can take a lot of group cooperation to play this game with friends.

Then we headed outside to play follow the leader like Gossie and Gertie.
What a fun friend day!

Tuesday, September 23, 2008

Friends Forever

We started off the day dotting Ds for our letter art activity.


We listened to the story of Rainbow Fish and retold it together on the flannel board during circle time.



For snack we made a friendship fruit salad. Each of us cut up a piece of fruit and then added it to a big bowl. We loved sharing our snack we made together.



We made friendship flowers. We each made a hand print on all of our friends' papers. Together the four hand prints made a beautiful flower.

Thursday, September 18, 2008

All About Me - Family style

We started the day off with Corbin showing us what he brought in the Alphabet Box for the letter "C." Corbin showed us that car, cow, camera and card all start with the letter C.
Today we talked about our families. We played a game with hats in a circle. There were lots of hats in the circle and one child at a time marched around the circle while we sang a song. Then they would pick out a hat and say what kind of family member they were, a dad, a baby, a brother, or grandpa. They had fun putting on hats.




For art, the children made a picture of their family using shapes.
We used a family favorite recipe of making smoothies for all of us to share.

Tuesday, September 16, 2008

Family Times

We had a great time learning about our families. We shared what we liked to do with our families on the white board and even helped "write" our answers. We sang songs about families.

We painted family trees and added pictures of our families during art.

We built homes for our families together out of Lincoln logs.



We ended the day by playing Candyland together in honor of the this week's letter "C." We missed Corbin!

Monday, September 15, 2008

If You're Happy And You Know It



Our theme this week was Feelings. We sang a song called "The Smile Song" with the kids and made these fun plates with smiles we could change from frowns to smiles. We read two stories about Feelings and danced to several songs about feelings during circle time.


Our letter of the week was "B." We made "Bs" out of beads.


We are Birthday Blueberry muffins and Bananas for snack.


We painted huge smiley faces.


We also played Bingo and played with Balls outside.

Thursday, September 11, 2008

Feelings and letter "B"

Today was all about our feelings and the letter "B." We read "I'm Sorry," "Me Too," and "Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, no good very bad day." Later, we also read, "Clifford, we love you." We sang "If your Happy and you Know it."



Rebekah shared the Alphabet box for the letter "B." Some of the items that begin with B are: baby, banana, bread and blanket.



It stopped raining just in time for us to go outside and blow bubbles.


Then we discussed how different music can make us feel. We colored on paper how we felt while we listened to "Rhapsody in Blue," and the first movement of Beethoven's 5th symphony.

Thursday, September 4, 2008

First Mommy and Me Preschool at Rebekah's house

We had a great first day of preschool at Rebekah's house. Our theme for today is still All About Me - with an emphasis on our bodies. During gathering time we used our hands to build legos and created trains and giraffes. Then we had circle time. The children were so attentive to the stories.



After reading My "a" Book, Andrew got to show us what he found in his house that begins with the letter "A" -apple, Annie, and American flag, to name a few.



We created "All About Me" books. We colored pictures of ourselves, our favorite food, and we got to weigh ourselves and see how tall we are.

Tuesday, September 2, 2008

Hooray for Our First Day


"A" is for apples! Yum!!!! We talked all about the letter "A" this week. We ate apples and made apple prints.

We all enjoyed the apple snack!


This month's theme is ALL ABOUT ME. We decorated our names in art.


As one of our fine motor skills activities we arranged the letters of our name with magnet letters.


Outside we played a great listening game. We had to wait to throw our bean bag until we heard the word "GO!" It was challenging for some of us to wait, but we all eventually got the hang of it.