Friday, December 1, 2017

November Pictures/December Schedule

My kids had a lot of fun helping out with preschool on their day off. (Ethan was wearing his ninja band in honor of the fact he was going to see the ninjago movie later that day :))




Andrew helping out during "morning tray" time.

Hannah helping out during circle time.

Hannah planned our project for the day.

There were so many leaves but they were beautiful!

Ethan taking a picture



Ethan did a great job reading to the class





Learning about the pilgrims

American Indians helping the pilgrims plant crops

Enjoying a feast together










 


 

Taking turns adding ingredients while we read "Stone Soup"




Yum!





Reindeer training games

Our theme for December is "Winter in the Woods/Christmas" and I'm very excited! Here is the schedule:

Tues Dec 5th: Bears/hibernation, letter Bb
snack- Gio

Thurs Dec 7th: Evergreens, rectangle, numbers 1 and 11
snack- Sam

Tues Dec 12th: Elves/Giving/The Elves and the Shoemaker, letter Ee
snack- Benji

Thurs Dec 14: The Gingerbread Man, green, numbers 2 and 12
snack- Paige

Tues Dec 19: Gingerbread/Christmas 5 senses, review letters
snack- Rachel

Thurs Dec 21: Christmas Celebration- We will be doing a book gift exchange so please send your child with a wrapped new or gently used book (goodwill has children's books for 50 cents) that they can give during the exchange.  Thanks!
snack- Ian

Christmas Break until Thursday January 4th

Monday, November 6, 2017

October- Fall Farms

We've had a fun month learning about pumpkins, Fall, leaves, bats, owls, insects/inchworms, and Halloween.

Name writing practice





Letter toss game



Hard workers

Does the pumpkin float or sink?

It floats!







More pumpkin exploration





Reading the story our class wrote






Free time exploration





If you haven't heard your child say the pledge of allegiance you should ask them to say it with you.  They are getting pretty good.





Fall walk/ scavenger hunt for leaves





 Singing leaf songs



Lots of good helpers



More singing time with leaves

drawing triangles on the little whiteboards
 
Following the letter footprints and being careful to only step on the letter Ii's

Working on a journal page- this is often done one on one during free center time, or in small groups

Free time in the centers

Working together

The itsy bitsy spider went up the water spout
 
The spidermen


Flash


Batman

An owl, fairy, and micky mouse

The whole cute crew

Silly faces