"Vv" We Love Mommy!

We talked about the letter "V" today! Luke was quite happy to know that Vacuum started with the letter V. We talked about Volcanoes. We looked at pictures of Volcanoes. We attempted to glue torn tissue paper on a cone-shaped volcano. First thing I realized is that our class needs to practice more on ripping or tearing paper. This is a great small motor skill. I demonstrated by placing both hands on top of paper and pulling apart. Second thing I noticed is that the children wasn't quite sure about the glue-water mixture, and didn't want to smooth the tissue paper down with their hands. Over all our Volcanoes turned out pretty good, however, I think next year we might use paint instead of tissue paper. We tempted to glue our "V" pictures onto our volcanoes after the tissue paper was on. Yeah, for V!

We Love Our Mommies! We took turns telling each other what we love about our mom. Miss Janalynn melted chocolate, and each child took turns stirring the chocolate with a pretzel wand. We finished by sprinkling the wands. We placed the magic wands in a bag with a mothers day note attached to it. I hope all the mom's love the chocolate wands. I know the children LOVED making the wands. They especially LOVED making a chocolate wand for themselves to eat.

We read the book by P.D. Eastman, "Are You My Mother?" Then Miss Janalynn Showed the Children real Robin eggs she found on the ground yesterday while mowing her lawn. She will attempt to return them to their nest after preschool today.

"Uu"

For the letter "U" we colored a picture of an Umbrella, and drew a picture of ourselves Under the Umbrella. We had a fun snack of muffins. We turned our muffins Upside down and added a cut-off bendable straw to it to make our muffins look like an umbrella. They were yummy umbrellas!

Music is fun to learn about. After looking at and talking about different types of instruments, each child chose a CD to play. We listened to piano music, an orchestra, electric guitar, a Ukulele and brass band music. We listened to see if we could pick out the picture of what instrument was playing. The kids did pretty good at identifying the instrument! We then proceeded to dance to the music. We danced fast and slow. We hopped, and twirled. We pretended to be different animals as we listened to the music. There was plenty of movement and imagination going on today!

We then picked out the homemade instrument that we would be using during our spring program. We defiantly need more practice with our instruments before our program!!