"Tt" Wild Animals we see at the Zoo!

Today we review a little about reptiles, because we talked about Turtles and the letter T. Our craft was painting a turtle, and gluing on "T" pictures to our turtle shell. We learned more about turtles when we read the classic story, "The Tortoise and the Hair".

We talked about what is a "Wild" animal. We learned that wild animals are animals that need to be cages, or they would run away. The Zoo keeps Wild animals so we can go and see them, without going to far places or getting hurt. The zoo takes good care of animals and makes sure the animals are happy and healthy.

We colored a zoo page and then placed animal crackers onto our zoo page before eating them.

We also put together a wild animal puzzle. The heads and bodies of the animals were interchangeable. The kids had a hoot, to see different animal heads on different bodies! What silly animals!

Our story today was "Strike at the Zoo!" by, Karma Wilson.

"Ss" Under The Sea

Whats more fun then making an actual size Sunflower? Especially when you get to glue real Sunflowers in the middle? The Kids loved to eat the Sunflowers. I was a little nervous to let them eat them, I was constantly telling them to chew them very good, before swallowing them. But I couldn't resist laughing to watch them try and crack the seeds open like a peanut to find the middle seed. It's a real talent to crack a sunflower seed with your teeth, and the kids loved trying. We talked about the Sunflower and why it is called a Sunflower. It looks like one and it follows the Sun across the sky during the day.

For our snack we had fruit Snacks and Sprite to drink, while we watched a part of Finding Nemo. After, we made our own aquariums, with crayon, and blue watercolor. We glued on paper sea creatures to our aquarium.

Our Story today was "The Pout Pout Fish" by, Deborah Diesen.

During singing we fished with a fishing pole to pick the song to sing.

The weather was nice outside, so we even had time to play a little Soccer. What a fun "S" day!

"Rr" and Reptiles

I really hope the children got the meaning of what a reptile is, I wonder if they just ended up thinking we talked about scary or poisonous creatures. Anyways, we took a look at a big book of Reptiles with all sorts of types, colors, and sizes of snakes, turtles, lizards and alligators. We read the book "A Girl and Her Gator", by Sean Bryon. And then learned and colored a fun Reptile poem.

For the letter R, we put glued together a Rainbow. Then we colored and glued Rain drops onto our Rainbow picture. We looked at pictures of Rabbits, and then for snack we ate Rabbit's favorite food, carrots, with Ranch and Raisins!!

We started practicing for our program today. We Reviewed some of our past songs. I was proud to see the children still Remembered them.

"Qq" Birds

We talked about the letter "Q". Unlike the letter "P", there isn't a lot of "Q" words. Miss Janalynn brought out her quilt to show and we talked about how a quilt is a blanket that is made with different pieces of material. We talked about Queens, Quarters, and Quails. We colored these "Q" pictures in our "Queen's Quilt" booklet.

We then talked about another type animal. We talked about birds. We got out the large Animal picture encyclopedia, to look at the different types of birds. We colored pictures of a Cardinal, Blue Jay and Robin. We then made a bird seed feeder to take home and hang on a tree so we could watch the different birds that would come to eat.

"Pp" Pets and Pajamas

We wore our Pajamas today to Preschool. It was so much fun to see our friends in Pajamas. We had super hero pajamas, Pink and Purple Pajamas, and fun character Pajamas.

P is a fun letter, because there are a lot of things to eat that start with the letter "P". Our class made a pretend pie. We filled our pie with "P" pictures. Some children chose to only fill their pies with real food pictures, like peaches, pumpkins, pears, and pizzas, while others used, pencils, pens, pennies, paint and penguins.

For a snack we had Pretzels, and fruit Punch.

We used a straw to blow a Ping-Pong ball across the floor, for a fun game.

For our animal theme, we talked about Pets. We talked about how we need to take care of our pets, and the different things our pets might need. We colored a 3-D dog and cat. It was interesting to see how the children viewed the dog and cat before they were put together. Some knew right away how to put them together, while others thought they had 2 dogs and 2 cats. Of course they all loved coloring their animals different.

"Oo" Animals on the Farm

Our theme for April is, Animals. We started with Farm Animals. Miss Janalynn pulled her "Old Lady" puppet, and we sang the song while we each took a turn feeding the old lady a different farm animal. There was a lot giggles. While we had our animals picked out for the old lady, we used them to sing the song, "Old McDonald Had A Farm". And read the book, "On the Farm".

Our letter for the day was "O". We talked about O words with the O sound. We then talked about Oxen. Oxen are similar to Cows, and Farmers use them to pull things because they are very strong. We used a tooth brush to paint fur onto our large Ox, then glued on O pictures.

For our snack we had Beagles because they were shaped like the letter "O".

For a game today, we took turns hiding a farm animal behind our backs, and giving clues about the animal, while the other children tried to guess what animal was hidden.