Thanksgiving

We had a FUN day, talking about THANKSGIVING!!!

We made some TURKEY HATS & the kids got to tell me several things they were thankful for:) This might be my favorite activity of the year! 

We colored Thanksgiving place mats and watched a show about the First Thanksgiving and we talked about the Pilgrims and the Indians and what they might have eaten at the first Thanksgiving meal. 

Then we enjoyed a "Thanksgiving Feast"! It was fun to watch them try new things and like some of it and not like some of it:) We ate potatoes and peaches and blackberries and stuffing and green beans and corn and pumpkin pie and bread! We had such a great day talking about being grateful and I have to say how very grateful I am for my wonderful preschoolers this year! I feel so blessed to have such a wonderful class!!!

Letter N

Literature:
Nice New Neighbors by Franz Brandenberg

Nana Upstairs and Nana Downstairs by Tomie dePaola

Math:

We counted the number of dots on each square and then matched it up with the correct number and glued it on our papers in order from 0-10. 

Game: 

Now you see it, Now you don't

I put objects out for them to look at, then I put them away and they had to try to remember all of the objects that were shown to them. We played one more variation where we took something away and they had to guess which object was removed. 

Handwriting:

We traced numbers 0-10 on the white board during circle time

Creative Play:

We read a book of nursery rhymes and then acted a couple of them out

Outdoor Play: 

We practiced hopping on one foot today, to practice balance!

Letter L

Show & Tell:

Light Sabers & Legos---things I know WELL, with my 3 boys:)

Handwriting & Coloring Worksheets:

You will probably notice improvement over this semester in their coloring and handwriting over time, but we are really focusing on NAMES from now until Christmas! Find opportunities to practice at home with them as well. Make it fun! Spell their name with marshmallows or cereal or use their finger in shaving cream smeared on the counter! If they WANT to write it, the more they will enjoy learning those letters:)

Arts & Crafts:

Lady bug Craft

We PAINTED with black and red and made little LADYBUGS from small paper plates. 

Literature:

Lion King - they loved listening to this story & most were excited to say they had seen the movie too:)

Circle Time:

"Look at me" - we passed a round a mirror to LOOK at ourselves and pointed out 5 things that we saw in the mirror! We all saw different things and everyone is SPECIAL in their own way!

Outdoor Play:
Leap Frog Fun!! We started jumping over kids but it proved difficult with their little legs, so we found some orange cones to jump over, which worked much better;)

Science:

We  went on the hunt for FALLEN LEAVES! Fall isn't quite here in Mesa I guess, because we couldn't find too many on the ground, but we did pull a few off the trees to talk about them and their different colors and shapes and sizes!

Music: 

We enjoyed the song/game "London Bridge" - they LOVED locking each other up!

LIMBO- we are going to have to do this again, because I didn't get pictures and they LOVED it!!

Letter K

Show & Tell:

We had everything from Kangaroos, to Ketsup to Kites to  KoolAid and more! Thanks for continually supporting our letter of the week!

Outdoor Play:
We practiced our KICKING skills today, helping to develop some gross motor skills. 

Kangaroo relay races also made for a fun activity this week!

Snack:

We incorporated in our letter and made "K's" with our pretzels before eating them up!:)

Arts & Crafts: 

We used different COLORS & SHAPES to make our own KITES! Ask your child to point out shapes while driving around in your car! It is a great opportunity to see if they can find certain shapes around town.

Math: 

More work in our math workbooks this week & we mixed it up and did our work in circle time. 

Literature: 

We read the story " A Kiss for Little Bear" by Else Holmelund Minarik

Halloween Carnival

We had a FUN FUN FUN Halloween Carnival at Preschool!!

The kids were SO EXCITED when they showed up in costumes to see a few "doubles"-- they get so excited when they see someone dressed up the same as them:)

We had fun painting our hands BLACK and painting spiders on our treat bags!

Then outside for FUN! Games, games and more games! Everyone was so well behaved, took turns, won prizes, cheered on their friends and filled their treat bags! THANK YOU FOR ALL OF THE DONATIONS! It was very last minute this year and I want you to know how much I appreciated you all sending in goodies! They were so excited to share what they brought with their friends!

Donuts made for the perfect "snack" for our party and everyone went home with chocolate-y smiles!! And probably a little hyped up on sugar(sorry! haha!) 

We had such a FUN HALLOWEEN!!!

Halloween Fun

Table Time:
Rotations with 3 different table activities, that help build our fine motor skills.

Math: 

We started into our Math Workbooks this month! We will leave our workbooks at school for now, but since we have the basics of numbers down, we are reading to dive in deeper to learn more!

Arts & Crafts:

We made soft and spooky ghosts, by gluing cotton balls on to our ghost templates and then turned them in to necklaces:)

Theatrical Play:

Two at a time, we got to put on a "puppet show" with our ghosts and they did a GREAT job with their creative story telling!

Outdoor Play:
We added a little fun today with FACE PAINTING:)

Letter J

Show & Tell:

 A Jack-o-Lantern- perfect for October:)

Handwriting:

 We practiced our handwriting on the whiteboard in circle time today!

Outdoor Play: 

JUMP ROPE! We enjoyed learning a new rhyme and counting as we jumped...

"____________likes to jump. _____________likes to count.

____________knows his/her numbers. Listen as she/he counts." 

Followed by counting as high as they could go!

Literature: 

We read the book Jennie's Hat by Ezra Jack Keats out loud in circle time

Music: 

We learned the rhyme JACK & JILL WENT UP THE HILL with actions

We also learned "John Jacob Jingleheimer Schmidt" and they thought he had the funniest name:)

Arts & Crafts:

We made Jack-o-lanterns from Paper Plates AND we colored our own faces on little pumpkins!

Circle Time: 

We used Jack-O-Lantern faces on the white board to talk about emotions!  I drew a HAPPY, SAD, ANGRY, SILLY, and SCARED Jack-o-lantern and we talked about how we can handle different emotions and use our words when we are upset or sad, to tell others how we are feeling.