The Letter B

Arts & Crafts:

Watercoloring Coffee Filters to make Beautiful Butterflies!

Free Play: Manipulatives, building with blocks

Game/Gross Motor Skills: Bouncing a Balloon, while the class sang, 

"This is how we bounce a balloon,

bounce a balloon, 

bounce a balloon, 

this is how we bounce a balloon, 

gently in the air"

Outdoor Play: Flying our butterflies:)

Handwriting & Coloring: Things that start with the letter B, tracing & handwriting practice with lowercase & uppercase Bb's...

Music: Rolling the dice to see what song we will sing next!

Show & Tell:
I LOVE it when their show & tell starts with the letter of the week!! That way, it is teaching them conversational & public speaking skills, but I also get to incorporate it into the lesson! Thanks for bringing in your Bug Book...

Physical Fitness: Playing Basketball

During snack, we watched a Baseball video...

Science: We went on a bug hunt in the backyard...

Journals/Application: We talked about the video they watched & decided on what to journal about. They wanted to draw the "talking baseball" from the movie & everyone did a really great job drawing what they saw:)

"Hot Potato"---but we played "Hot Baseball" & whoever had the baseball when the music stopped, was out.

Another fun week!!!

LETTER A

 Our theme this week was centered around the letter A!

Language:

We talked about the different sounds that A can make & the difference between uppercase & lowercase letter Aa's...

 Arts & Crafts:

We made APPLE TREES, using our fingers to paint the apples on our trees...

 Physical Activity/Gross Motor Skills:

Kicking a soccer ball into a goal...

 Handwriting Practice: Tracing letters...

 Coloring: Coloring a variety of things that start with the letter A...

 We celebrated a BIRTHDAY this week!

 Yummy treats that he brought to share with all of his friends...

 Cupcakes=SMILES:)

 Recess: Duck Duck Goose

 Cutest snack! - "APPLES"---red rice crispy treats, with a tootsie roll stem & a green mike & ike leaf...

 Journals/Fine Motor Skills: Tracing baby food jar lids to make "apples"...

BACK TO SCHOOL!

The 1st week of school has come & gone 

and we had a WONDERFUL week!

We did an "All About Me" week, learning more about each of our new friends!

Gathering: Books & Puzzles

Circle Time:
Each child stood up, told their name & age & their favorite food...

We learned that EVERYONE is 4 years old, which the kids thought was pretty cool;)

Arts & Crafts: "I like..." Collages

We cut all of our FAVORITE THINGS out of magazines and glued them on a paper, to make collages...

Social & Public Speaking Skills:

Each child stood in front of the class and talked about the things that they put on their collages

Picture Time: We took pictures for a project that we would complete on Thursday

Snack Time: We talked about manners and saying PLEASE & THANK YOU

Math Concepts: 

We counted up the number of people with Brown, Blue & Green eyes & Brown, Blonde & Black hair & then charted the results. BROWN had the majority in both categories!

We lined up by HEIGHT & talked about how we all look different, with different hair color, eye color, skin color & height & we are all special & should treat everyone kindly!

Handwriting Practice:
We practiced writing our names on the whiteboard...

Free Play: Boys went straight to the CARS...

and the girls loved the potato heads...

Arts & Crafts: We "FRAMED" our pictures that we took on Tuesday & decorated them with jewels, beads & stars...

Music Time: Shaking our instruments to the rhythm of the music!

Gross Motor Activity: "Follow the Leader"- mimicking the leader's actions(clapping hands, stomping feet,etc)

Recess: They had fun playing outside & were nice enough to stop playing, so we could take a class picture!

Finished frames!

Language & Literature: We read some fun nursery rhymes out loud & then had personal reading time with books

What a GREAT 1st week of PRESCHOOL!

I was incredibly impressed with their behavior, it usually takes awhile to get into routine, but they all were incredible listeners, very respectful & great helpers! A special THANK YOU to all of YOU(their parents!) for preparing them for a new school year, so we can jump right into learning!