Alphabet Party

Everyone Loves A Party!!

This was a very anticipated party. The children were excited to play games and eat the treat they brought to share. The children brought treats that started with either their first or last name. We had fun, and yummy treats.

We played all the favorite games that we played throughout the year, such as, musical chairs, Duck Duck Goose, and Little Boy Blue.

We then sang all the fun and favorite songs that we learned throughout the year. Most of them we practiced for our program too. We used our fun decorations that we made especially for them. Last but not least we weighed and measured ourselves to see if we had grown since the beginning of the year. And of course we had to have our picture taken AGAIN!!!

Flowers and the letter "Z"

The children guessed that our puppet today would be a Zebra. Boy were they surprised to find out it was a Zipper!! We all then examined our own zippers. There were again fun things for show and tell such as many zebras stuffed and plastic. And a Zelda action card.
I introduced flowers with Zenas. We examined the seeds and talked about different types of flowers, and how some need more sun than others. We made a colorful large Zena for decoration with bright colored paper, plates and glue. The children then took an actual Zena Flower home to care for.
For Snack we had Zoo animal Crackers, and talked about going to the Zoo.

"Y" Insects especially Bumble Bees

It's coming to the end of the year. The children are really excited to put together their Alphabet books. They have been working real hard on each of the letters.

"Y" puppet was a ball of Yarn. Show and Tell consisted of many Yo-Yo's.

We wrapped Yellow Yarn around and around some cardboard, and made yarn balls to take home.

For snack we had Yogurt. Funny that either the children really liked it, or absolutely hated it.

We painted a Bumble Bee made from an egg create, and I put wings on them, and kept them for our Bumble bee song, we are going to sing at our end of year program. I have an actual Bee Hive I passed around for the children to look at and hold.

Mommies and Babies Letter "X"

The letter X is a some what hard letter to match anything or any word up with. We looked at a lot of words with the letter X in it. To make things more confusing, our puppet was a xylophone. Now the letter X in this case sounds like a Z. I did show the children a X-ray of my broken ankle, and another X-ray of my ankle after surgery. The children were amazed to see screws in my bones, and started calling me a robot and monster. (Boy are they learning how to tease!!!) I then had them trace their hands with white crayon onto black paper and draw bones to create their own X-rays. For a game, we tossed bean bags onto a Cross-A-Toss game. We got points for all the X's we could get.

Since Mother's Day is this Sunday, we talked about Mommies, and Babies. We matched up different baby animals with their mommies, and found out that they sometimes even have different names. We then made a fun Mother's Day magnetic Note Holder. We practiced lacing, and even learned how to wrap floral tape around a matching pen. I hope all you mother's love this creation, I know the children were excited to give this gift to you!!

Caterpillars and Butterflies Letter "W"

The letter W is one of those weird letters, that it's sound doesn't sound anything like the letter. However the children didn't disappoint on show and tell. We had a Wolf tee-shirt, Whale stuff animals, the X-Men's Wolverine poster, coloring book and stickers, and last but not least, a favorite was a Walgreen pen that each of the children got to keep (thanks Mathews Dad).

The puppet was no surprise, a Whale, and for a snack we got sticky eating Waffles.

The Very Hungry Caterpillar, by Eric Carle, was read today. And we looked at many pictures of different butterflies. We used our fingers to paint dots onto a large paper leaf to make a caterpillar. We then tried to punch holes into the leaf to look as if the caterpillar had eaten it (a difficult task because the hand muscles aren't quite strong enough yet). We then painted our hands to form wings and glued a head shot of ourselves to the wings. Our Butterflies were silly with our faces.