Spirit Week

Crazy Hair Day & Western Day were both successful! I loved all the fun hair do's and plaid shirts and boots:) We did a lot of review this week and had a lot of fun while doing it! We are diving deeper into phonics and the beginnings of learning to read this semester and I love watching them grasp the concepts, as they start to put sounds together to make words! Try having them sound out words when you are out and about with them. Find easy words like STOP and NO or EXIT as you drive with them and see what they can do! 

Letter Q

Language and literature:

Quick Chick by Julia Hoban 

Quick! Turn the Page by James Stevenson 

Circle Time:

We discussed the value of quarters and other coins. We talked about the different ways we can make a dollar and what they would buy if they had a million dollars;) I loved their answers! Haha

Music:

Quietly Clapping to the rhythm of our songs

Arts & Crafts:

We "quilted" the letter Qq's with paper and I loved that we had some quilts brought in for show & tell so we could talk about quilts and the different designs that can be made!

Letter P

Language and Literature:

Peter Rabbit by Beatrix Potter

Arts & Crafts:

We created Paper Penguins today using different shapes and colors! The kids enjoyed piecing them together!

Game:

Pictionary with words that start with letter P! I was impressed with their drawing skills! Pigs and penguins and pumpkins and pizza and ponies and more! They loved this activity. 

Creative Play:

Pirate and Princess Day! What a fun day we had dressing up and playing Pirates and Princesses!! I loved watching them express themselves through dramatic play today!

Circle Time:

We talked about PAIRS and what we have pairs of on our bodies...eyes, ears, legs, hands, etc and searched for pairs around the room and outside!

Letter O

Arts & Crafts:

We made Octopus with our handprints...we used all of our fingers, minus our thumbs, to make 8 legs! 

Activity:

We learned how to play Operation- some loved it, some not so much:) We had fun with it! Steady hands and our fine motor skills together made for a successful operation!

Physical Fitness:

We enjoyed competing in an Obstacle Course in the backyard and they all loved seeing how quickly they could get through all of the obstacles! 

Music:

This Old Man

One Potato, Two Potato

Reading:

Owl Moon by Jane Yolen

Over in the Meadow by Olive A Wadsworth

We have begun to work on stringing our letters and sounds together to make words! Sounding out letters to make words can be fun and easy! We started with the words that end with "at" and tried to see how many letters we could put in front of those two letters to make a word. They came up with quite a few! I am looking forward to watching them learn even more throughout this semester.

Christmas Fun

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!!!