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.

B is for Butterfly: The Very Hungry Caterpillar

We learned on Tuesday that an egg hatches a caterpillar, a caterpillar eats and eats until it has enough fat to make a cocoon, after a couple weeks a butterfly works its way out of the cocoon. We continued with that theme learning about the Very Hungry Caterpillar. I was so very excited to teach this unit! So, so fun.

First we watched the ABC mouse video again and practiced the B sound. We also learned about the color blue. Kaylee, Jared, Max, and RJ all wore blue! I showed the kids a color crew video about a silly blue crayon who colored with his friend yellow.

We read the book The Very Hungry Caterpillar by Eric Carle. I made a cute caterpillar out of a Parmesan cheese can. The kids fed our caterpillar all the foods the caterpillar ate in the book. Kaylee helped the caterpillar earn some orange wings for all that eating. The kids made caterpillar necklaces...well, tried. It was hard going so Amanda and I made the necklaces for the kids.

Then the kids magically turned into caterpillars as well. They ate through their snack of: 1 apple, two pears, 3 plums, 4 strawberries, and 5 oranges. Each child wiggled into a cocoon hanging from our tree. While in the cocoon the kids earned some wings and wiggled out to fly away as amazing butterflies.

After the excitement of turning into butterflies the kids ran around with butterfly nets and caught leaves, each other, and lots of air. We tried to play Elefun, the batteries ran out, then the butterflies were caught by boys who put their net over the elephant's trunk. Cheaters!

B is for Butterfly

B is a boisterous letter. It bounces, bobs, and of course is very beautiful. The kids watched the letter B song from ABC Mouse, twice. The kids practiced writing the letter B/b on a paper plate filled with some rice.

We had a special visitor come to preschool on Tuesday. A real butterfly! It died after waiting a week in the butterfly cage, still each child got to touch it's velvet wings, look closely at the curly tongue, and see the fur on it's belly. I read a special book on the Butterfly cycle. The kids made a craft showing the butterfly cycle. The glue was awesome to play with.

The weather was perfectly warm, with a bright sun and no wind. Seven butterfly snacks met the kids in the side yard. We made some fun letter B window suncatchers with contact paper and squares of tissue paper. The most exciting part was donning tissue wings and running around like wild butterflies.