"Q" Ocean Animals

Letter Q is a fun letter trace and write. We colored a Queen puppet and talked about how quilts are made with different pieces of material. We made a tiny quilt with paper, by tracing our names on squares of paper. We then passed out out one of our names to each classmate. Last but not least we glued each name to eachother to form a small quilt-like craft. This helped the children, think about how to position each piece and how to glue which side. A great thought excise.

Watching a part of "Finding Nemo" to see all the different types of Ocean life, we then made our own aquarium to take home. We drew (I did a lot of the drawing for them) plants and rocks found in the ocean, then painted over the crayon drawings. After it had dried, we glued on cut outs of the Ocean animals we saw in the movie.

For snack we had tuna fish sandwiches. A favorite for some, not so much for others.

"P" is for Parties!!!

After a show and tell of Penguins, stuffed Pigs, Pirates, a Pilot action figure, and making our Puppet for the day of a Pig, we started our "Pajama" Party!

The children LOVED wearing their Pajamas!!

We made Playdoe with flour, salt and water.

We played a game called don't fall into the "Pond", and Frogs in the "Pond"!
We ate Pizza for our snack/lunch.
The highlight of the Party, next to wearing our Pajamas, was the PINATA!!
Brock brought a Pinata to Preschool to share.
There was Plenty of candy to take home.
This was definitely a Party to remember!!

Rain and Mud and the Letter "O"

"O"

Action figures of OB1-kanobe and Dr. Octopus were our show and tell today.

We made an Octopus Puppet, and had Oatmeal Cookies for our snacks.

Rain makes mud. We learned that worms and pigs LOVE mud. Mud helps keep animals cool from the hot sun. When it rains, worms love to come out onto sidewalks because it is wet. For a craft, we strung cut up drinking straws, to make our own wiggly worms. Rain makes dirt into mud. Rain is important to make mud for our plants, so they too will not be too hot fro the sun, and also so they can drink the water in the ground. We made mud by mixing a large bucket of dirt with water. We took turns mixing the dirt until it made mud. Afterwards we spooned some of the mud into cups and planted a seed.

Letter "N" and Windy Weather

Our Fun Puppet was a "NUT"

We sang the fun song, "Found a Peanut" with our puppets

We talked about Nests, and even looked and touched a real bird's nest.

afterwards we mixed up melted marshmellows and mixed it with Chinese noodles to make our own nest, to take home and eat later.


Noodles, Noodles, and More Noodles!
For snack we had Noodles. Some were long and some were short. And all were fun to eat!
Our Theme today was "Wind"
If you are wondering what the plastic lid covered with goop, that was sent home is, let me explain. It is a Debris catcher. We talked about how the wind blows all sorts of things. It blows hats, kites, paper, dirt, sticks, etc. We used rags to wipe on Petroleum Jelly on both sides of the lid. Hang it up outside and see what the wind will blow onto it. Already I have string, hair, twigs and even small bugs on my Debris catcher.
For a craft. We dripped green liquid onto paper and used straws to "blow" like wind with our breath to make leaves "blowing in the wind".

Four Seasons and the letter "M"

Marvelous M

For show and tell there was a lot of Monkeys, a mouse (a toy one) and a mask shown.

Our Puppet was a Monkey of course, and snack today, were Muffins and Milk!! We Danced to different types of Music. We listened and moved to the sounds. Some Music is slow like turtles, deep like elephants, quick like a rabbit and high sounding like little birds. We counted large and small Marshmellows from same size jars.

The Theme was "4 Seasons"

We introduced "Spring" and talked about what the weather is like and what happens during each seasons. We made 4 finger puppets to go along with a seasonal song.

"L" is for Leprechauns

St. Patrick's Day Party

After showing off our Lovely "L" items such as stuffed Lions and Leopards, Little Lolly Pops, Littlest Pet shop Lamb, and then lots of Lasers, We made our Lion Puppet. My afternoon class was LUCKY to see, and hold a Leopard Gecko, or we also called a Lizard.

We had a Magical party, we found shamrocks, by learning to do rubbings. We placed a cut out of a clover under a sheet of paper. Then we used the side of an unwrapped green crayon, and rubbed the paper until magically a shamrock appeared. We kept the Shamrock to stencil or trace around.

For a fun snack we made vanilla pudding. We mixed blue and yellow food coloring into the pudding, magically make the pudding turn GREEN! We ate the pudding with Leprechaun shaped cookies.

A fun game called "Find the Gold" was played. Gold pieces were found, and placed into our homemade pots, to take home.

Letter "K" Rainbows and Lucky Charms

Kangaroos, Kittens, Karate turtles, Kick balls, and a picture of a Brother, named Kobe, were fun things to show today. We talked about Kangaroos, and how they have powerful legs that jump a strop tail that allows them to KICK.

Lucky things such as socks, numbers, hats etc were told to bring some people Luck. We talked about how some people believe that find 4 leaf clovers, or Shamrocks, and catching a Leprechaun can also bring luck.

Many children claim to have found the end of a Rainbow, I wish I have. I just can't seem to find that Pot of Gold that is believed to be there. We made Rainbows on the wall with a big diamond shape prism and talked about how the sun shines through the rain like the glass to make Rainbows. Have fun looking for those Rainbows.

Letter "J" Wonderful Weather

We learned a new Vocabulary word today...."Jester" however, no matter how hard I tried to convinced the children that a Jester, was a lot like a Joker, but did NOT hurt anyone (darn the Bat Man movie) they were still convinced that the Jester Puppet made today was a bad guy. I continually repeated that a Jester was more like a clown. I don't know what was worse. I didn't realize how many children were actually afraid of clowns. Next year I'll have to make a different "J" puppet.

Jam on toast along with Juice was our snack and Jelly beans was shared at the end of class.

Things that were shown were Jabba-the-Hut, Joker, (bat man figure/villain), Jump rope, Jeep, and a stuff Jaguar.

Weather is a fun theme for March. What a perfect month to demonstrate the different types of weather. Our weather chart is constantly changing. Today we made our very own weather charts to do each day at home.

We measured how far we could jump (Wow! I was very impressed how far these little ones could jump we got up to 47 inches!!!!) We kinda sorta learned how to jump a jump rope while two people are turning it. (Miss Janalynn needs to work on that one, it has been awhile. Silly me thought I could just show them how it was done, unfortunately, I'm not as coordinated as I used to be.)

"In Like a Lion...the letter I"

Welcome March

It's fun talking about a new month. February is over, we changed our Heart Tree into a Clover Tree. We talked about things that happen in the month of March such as spring, the color green starts to show in grass, plants and trees, St. Patrick's day, and how the starting of March the weather seems to be loud like a like a Lion, and at the end of March it seems that it becomes gentle like a Lamb. We broke out the water colors and painted a lion and lamb picture, and read a fun rhyming story, "Sheep in a Jeep" by Nancy Shaw.

Letter today was "I" probably our favorite snack so far was today....ICE CREAM!!!

Show and tell was sparse but fun. We watched Ice melt, and listened to an Ipod. A stuffed Iguana, and the toy heros of Iron man and Ice man was shown.

Happy Birthday Dr. Seuss! Letter "H"

We Celebrated Dr. Seuss's Birthday by bringing a Book written by him, and taking turns reading each book throughout the preschool day. We painted a large hat with red stripes similar to the Cat In the Hat.

For the letter "H" we made Hippo puppets. stuffed, and toy Horses were brought, along with Hats,a toy Hammer, a Helicopter and even a stuffed Horton Elephant. Way to go guys!!
We ate Ham sandwhiches for a snack. I'm surprised how much the children really liked them. I'll remember that one again for another time.

Something random...... I ran up stairs to grab something. When I came back down, I found some cute little kids "HIDING" from me. I couldn't resist taking a picture.