The Royal Tea Party

Friday started out with show and tell. Zane brought a quarter. Stella brought the king of dinosaurs- Tyrannosaurus Rex. Mia wore her new Hello Kitty shirt and showed us Hello Kitty's black eyes. Bryn showed a horse with a black face and Will wore a cool black hat.

Next we finished making our crowns, making them sparkle with jewels.



Then we got ready for our tea party by frosting our heart-shaped cookies.

Then we were ready for the party! Everyone looked very royal in their crowns.
And look at Zane with his pinkie sticking out!

 

Beginnings of Royalty!

On Wednesday we read the book "The Quiltmaker's Gift". It is about a quiltmaker who only gives her quilts to the poor and needy. A greedy king wants one too, but has to make some changes in his life before he can have one. It is a wonderful story and each page is packed with beautiful illustrations.

We started working on our own crowns next. Each child chose the type of crown that they wanted and we traced it onto their cardboard. They each attempted to cut them out (some with some creative scissoring techniques) but the cardboard was so tough that gripping the scissors was soon hurting their hands, so I helped them finish up. We went out back to spray paint them and while they dried we ate snacks and played a game of "King/Queen Says" ("Simon Says" in peasant terms!).

Q is for Quilt

No wonder "Q" is worth so many points in Scrabble! It's hard to think of words that start with it. Some of the words the kids came up with were queen, quilt, question mark, and my favorite- "quallaby" (I think that might be a cross between a koala and a wallaby (-;). We practiced writing "Q" on chalkboards and realized that upper case "Q's" have a kickstand to keep them from rolling over. Lower case "q's" look a lot like a 9 and a backwards "p", unless you give it a tail.


Next we made paper quilts. We looked at a book that had lots of different quilt patterns. Then we worked on piecing our own quilts making sure our pieces fit tight together so there wouldn't be holes in our quilts. Patterns were thrown to the wind!


We had quesadillas for snacks and talked about how we borrow words from other languages and sometimes their letters don't make the same sounds as they do in English.

Shadows Preschool

We woke up Friday morning to some snow! Guess that groundhog predicted more winter! We read a fun book, Gerald the Giraffe, both G words use the soft G sound. Gerald is a clumsy giraffe who discovers he can dance once he finds the right music...and confidence. The kids worked on three new worksheets: color coding big and little "G" to find the hidden picture, matching shadows, and finding two words that start with "g".

The kids finished making their goldfish projects. They colored and decorated blue paper for their goldfish to live on. Most of the aquariums had Santa stickers to entertain the goldfish.

We made shadow animals using a strong light and an illustration showing us how to make some shapes with our hands. Mostly we danced in front of the light! Our snack included grapes, gummy bears, and gold juice. Whoever drank the gold juice acquired the magical power to turn stuff into gold.

Lastly, the kids colored on some huge black paper with colored sidewalk chalk.