Getting Ready For Winter and #3

The number today was #3

We took our snack of Teddy Grahams, and made sets of 3 with them before we ate them.

Along with the "Bear" snacks, and the theme of "Getting Ready For Winter", we read the stories, "Time to Sleep" by, Denise Fleming, and the Book "Bear Snores On" by, Karma Wilson. Afterwards, we used a lot of our small and large motor skills, to smash peanut shells to glue onto a paper acorn, for a fun and "Nutty" craft. We role played the story "Bear Snores On", and each of us played a different animal in the story.

For a fun and Crazy game, I had the children go into the other room, while I quickly hid some fake nuts around the preschool room. When the children came back into the room they were pretending to be squirrels. Before they could start, I would say this fun poem. After the poem they would race to find all the nuts.

Squirrels, squirrels, bushy and gray,

Please find the nuts right away.

Winter is coming and it will snow,

Find the nuts. Go! Go! Go!

After all the nuts were found we would separate and categorise all the nuts into shapes, sizes and colors. It was a lot of fun.

I recited the poem, "The Three Little Kittens". Then we glued pictures of those 3 little kittens onto our #3. We talked about sometimes we might make others sad, and then we need to make thins right by saying sorry or fixing what we did wrong.

The older class practiced printing 1,2,3, then glued 1,2,3, on to 3 strips of paper, and then helped Miss Janalynn staple the strips together to form a 3 corner hat. We sang the song, "My Hat, it Has 3 Corners", while making our 3 corner hats

What made me laugh today was Lucas commenting on the children not here today, "It's not the Fall season, it's the sick season!"