D...Dinosaur...Purple

Stella had a great time "teaching" her first week of Joy School!  

We were happy to have Lily and Abby with us this week and we were grateful to have 

the help of Rose and Christine!

 MONDAY

Our first circle time was very interesting and involved impromptu songs about the weather (including actions), a re-organization of the days of the week, and discussions about whether it was "Fall" or "Autumn."  I was so impressed with how well the children knew the Pledge of Allegiance, great job parents!

We wanted to make purple play dough, but did not have purple food coloring... a little experimenting led to the discovery that we could make purple (and other colors) by mixing colors we did have.

 

We also wrote letters for our upcoming field trip to the Post Office.  We were so busy that I completely forgot to serve snack, which did not go unnoticed.  I was reminded repeatedly that at preschool, we are supposed to have a snack.

 

 

 

WEDNESDAY

 

The windy walk to the Post Office was well worth braving the chilly air.  We got a behind the scenes look including the large safe where stamps are kept, the backside of the Post Office boxes and the special door that Santa uses when visiting the Post Office.  We got to climb in a mail truck and pretend that we were all pieces of mail by riding up and down on the loading dock lift!

After purchasing postage stamps and placing them on our letters, we stamped the envelopes with the official Post Office stamp and placed them in the large mail bin for sorting and delivery.

 What a great field trip, thanks Sidney Post Office!

 

 We finished the day with purple juice and upper and lower case "D's" made of crackers, bagels and celery (some of which was actually eaten!) and read the book "How Do Dinosaurs Say I Love You?"

 

 

FRIDAY

Show and tell included Bryn's purple dinosaur, Amelia's purple unicorn, Zane's morning walk with his dad and the YUMMY caramel that followed, Stella's Tiana doll, Ella's dog, and Lily and Abby's birthday recaps!

 

While drawing our own dinosaur pictures we discussed...
herbivores and carnivores, bipeds and quadrupeds, fossils and extinction, and paleontologists.  

We learned that dinosaurs have different features that make them unique!

 

Dancing to dinosaur songs was not a big hit with everyone
(okay, so Stella was the only one to "walk like a dinosaur"),
but the dinosaur bone cookies, dinosaur fruit snacks and painting dinosaur fossils
sure hit the spot! What a great week!