S is for Snowman

We really missed little Miss Kaylee. Looks like we are now an all boy team! Go team Boy!!! This week we learned about the sneaky letter S. He says "ssssssss" just like a snake, even his shape reminded us of a snake. We sang a fun song about a snowman who melts and comes back alive with a frosty gust of wind. Since snowman also starts with S we read a fun book "What do Snowmen Do At Night?" Then we used moon dough to make S shapes. Next the boys practiced with chalk and chalkboards. Next we moved on to cutting shapes with scissors. RJ has pretty good cutting skills! We ate a snowman made of cottage cheese, carrot, and olives. He was not a winner, most of the kids did not enjoy their snacks. For a craft the kids made snowmen out of the letter S. The weather was pretty temperate so we headed outside for a hands on activity playing with water beads that sat outside all night. The beads were half frozen! The kids handled the beads, squashed them, threw the beads, stomped on them, and then our activity went to crazy level. We enjoyed the rest of our day playing outside.

Thursday I hosted a play dough ice cream party instead of preschool. Only Isaac could come and play that day. I made the best play dough using a regular salt dough recipe, just add some glycerine to the mix for a soft malleable dough. The kids played with chocolate, lemon, and strawberry ice cream dough.

X is for Xylophone

Christmas Treats and Xylophone crafts

The letter H, rectangles and manners

Today was a full day because Thursday is Thanksgiving!

We started with rectangles. Everyone said they already knew what a rectangle was so each person took a turn picking an item out of a bag and deciding if it was a rectangle shape or not. Everyone got their shape correct.

We then moved to the letter H and read The Hippo-Not-Amus. I then gave the kids 3 items to make the capital H with like 3 markers, 3 crayons, and 3 sticks. Everyone had fun making their letter H, but we also had some serious wiggles going! It was time for some music and a whole lot of dancing...and jumping :)

Once a majority of the wiggles were out we watched a short video where Crawford the Cat showed us how to have good table manners. We then had a snack and practised our table manners.

After snacks it was time to make the letter H with play-dough until moms came. There were also some turkeys made. Sadly this was the last day Kaylee will be with our group. We will miss you Kaylee!

 
Happy Thanksgiving!

Thanksgiving and the Color Green! :)

We were learning about the color Green today. I had Everett show his GREEN toy he brought with him & Kaylee showed her GREEN key chain she brought with her too. When we read books the kids also pointed out the GREEN leaves.

We read a few books about Thanksgiving. We read about what Thanksgiving was (Sorry, not sure if they actually learned anything about it. It was hard keeping their attention for the book reading). We also read about 1 little 2 little 3 little Pilgrims/Indians/Turkeys.

And we also sang some songs about Thanksgiving and Turkeys. We watched a small excerpt explaining about how Thanksgiving came about & sang about Albequerque the turkey. The kids learned that turkeys "Gobble Gobble".

We traced the letter T for Turkey at the table, and did another fun handprint art project.

Sorry, I meant to get more pictures but baby was not happy today.

Their handprint turkey placemat said

"This isn't just a turkey
As anyone can see.
I made it with my hand
Which is a part of me.
It comes with lots of love
Especially to say
I hope you have a very
Happy Thanksgiving Day!"

We had popcorn for a snack because we learned that the Indians shared food with the pilgrims, including CORN (which the kids all agreed was yummy!)

After we were done with the art project the kids ran some laps back and forth from the couch to the door to get out some energy, then we put on our shoes and went exploring out front to wait for moms. The kids all looked for GREEN leaves since that was our color of the week. Then we played "Turkey, Turkey, Feast" (Duck, Duck, Goose) while we waited for mommies to come. RJ and Everett really enjoyed it and liked to run and jump in my lap to get to safety. Annabelle was happy outside because she had plenty of leaves to try to eat too, so it was a win-win scenario. :)

Thanks, Amber, for helping this week!

D is for Dinosaur!

We had a fun time learning about the letter D and Dinosaurs this week in preschool. We started with some fun books talking about dinosaurs and learned about the word "extinct". We learned that there are some dinosaurs that eat plants and eat meat.

Then we sang songs and stomped around and did fun activities that dinosaurs do. We really enjoyed the "Dinosaur Stomp" song.



Then we moved in and traced the letter D and colored our dinosaur.

And then we did a fun art project with their cute little hand prints. 

The kids enjoyed looking at the snow.

And of course, here is the cute pics of the baby girls. They were pretty happy.

P is for Pumpkin (always)

I love Fall and Halloween so this week was especially fun for me. We had a few sick kiddos so our numbers were smaller, but we had a blast with 5 little Pumpkin puppet show,  Pumpkin bowling, Halloween themed snacks, Pumpkin crafts and Kaylee even showed up in her face paint! It's fall ya'll.