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.

Useful Farm Animals and the letter "V"

Many "V" items were brought today. A Violet princess shoe, Verizon cell phone, Venom action figures and even Starwars Villain, Venturous.
Although is wasn't Valentines, our puppet, was a Decorated Valentine. Many of the children asked, why we didn't do this puppet at Valentines. Nothing gets past these smarties.

We made wearable Vest, by decorating them with many fome stickers of dinosaurs, flowers and letters. Although we could wear them, we decided that they weren't too comfortable. Miss Janalynn's ripped when she attempted to put hers on.
Continuing our monthly theme of "Animals" We talked about why farm animals were so important. We learned that many of the farm animals provide us with food. Chicken Nuggets come from chicken, Hot dogs from pigs, and Milk from cows. We had these foods for our snack.
We practiced Folding today. This was a somewhat difficulty with some of the children. We decided that we needed to practice "folding". We cut and then folded farm animals that could go in and out of a pre-made barn.
A fun game was played today, "Little Boy Blue" We pretended to be sheep and cows. We would across the yard whenever Little boy blue blew his horn. If Little Boy Blue caught one of us, we would have to go to the barn, until everyone was caught. We really loved this game, especially if we got to be Little Boy Blue!!

Letter "U" Animals for Pets

Unicorns and plenty of Umbrellas were brought to preschool today! We colored, and decorated a movable umbrella, sang rain songs. For snack we even used our imagination and ate muffin tops, because we thought they looked a lot like the tops of umbrellas.

Today we also talked about different types of Pets. We learned that pets need a lot of care.
A fun Read-A-Long called Dirty Harry, told a story about a dog so dirty that his owners didn't recognize him, until he took a bath.

Afterwards we did just that, we gave Miss Janalynn's dogs baths!! It was a fun, yet WET experience!

Because the weather was quite nice, we took our umbrellas outside and played Simon Says, using our umbrellas.

"T" and Wild Animals

Today we focused on "T" We made a Turtle puppet, Had Tator Tots for a snack (a very fun and yummy snack) We even painted our own personal turtle made with a single egg Crete as a shell.
Show'n tell was filled with tigers, t-rex, turtles, tarantara, transformers and a toe truck



We talked about wild animals, and how most can be found at a zoo, so we and ejoy looking at them without them hurting us. We took home a fun head-swap puzzle of different wild animals.
The weather was super nice today, so we got to go outside to play "Toss" the Ball with milk jugs. It was a lot of fun trying to catch the toss ball with this milk-jug type mit.

"S" Seeds, and Birds

Our puppet today was a sun. We talked about Seeds and that we even eat some seeds. We eat beans, corn, nuts, and peas which are all "SEEDS". We made a Sunflower with paper and brown paint. Then we glued Sunflower seeds in the middle, For a snack we had Strawberry Sandwiches.

We talked about birds, we looked at many different kinds of birds. We colored common birds that we might see in our own back yards. We then made a fun bird seed treat for the birds. We took a bagel, spread peanut butter on it then dipped it into bird seed. A string tied through the bagel will help hang the treat in the trees for the birds. Spreading was a first time thing for some of us and good practice.

"R" Reptiles

Show'n tell had lots of R items such as, race cars, stuffed raccoons, rabbits, a rocket, rino, and robot raptor toy, along with a racket and sting-RAY! We then colored a raccoon puppet. We read and looked at pictures of different types of reptiles. We got great practice cutting when we followed the line around and around a paper plate. With these plates, we used markers to color snakes patterns and then used water and brushes over the marker to blend the colors to show a "smooth" skin like surface.

For a game, Miss Janalynn held up a make like cloud box, and shook "rain drops" all over, which we gathered and called off different letters that were found on the rain drops. We all got to take turns "being the rain cloud and shaking rain drops"

We also started some fun new songs that have to do with rain, which we will sing at the end of the year in our "End of Year Program.