Today at Preschool

We started with circle time/calendar and sang all our favorite songs. Then we started our super long craft project. I had pre-cut objects from magazines and had foam stickers ready to place in their alphabet books. It ended up consuming our whole morning and we still weren't able to quite finish it. But I was amazed at how each paper clipping pulled from the bin they immediately knew what page to glue it to. Finn did not want to use any papers for the letter M stating, "This is my mom's letter because her name is Maren and her birthday is in March!" It was so cute! The girls all agreed that the ballerinas just had to go on their B page! They are so smart and it was a great learning day!

Today at preschool!

We have Israel doing his Power Ranger kung fu!

Well today was so much fun and I hope the kiddies enjoyed themselves! Thank you Briana for all your help! We started off with circle time and I was happy to see everyone was really picking up on all the songs! We then decorated cupcakes everyone was very peticular in how they wanted theirs to look, such creative kids! We had playtime inside today because the grass outside was wet and they looked too cute to risk getting their costumes wet. We played Halloween Bingo and pin the tail on the cat and made a fun ghost. The time went way too fast and we didn't get to read our book. Sorry! But we did manage to get in a counting pumpkins worksheet at the very end! Briana, Alyssa just missed it and I should have sent one home with you, but I have hers here if you'd like it. We ended with a round of Duck Duck Goose. They really enjoyed that game probably the very most! I wish I took more pictures! Thanks for a fun day!

Today at Preschool (9/26)

Well today was music day and the kids were great! We started off with circle time and discussed the days of the week and months of the year. They each had a calendar and all knew it was September and needed a little help with what day it was. Israel knew it was the day to go visit Grandma and Grandpa in Utah! We sang some color songs like..."Pink Pink who is wearing pink if your wearing pink then please stand up. Put your finger on it to show me that you found it"... etc. and of course the days of the week song. We then played Brown bear Brown bear. I had laminated some pictures of animals and we started with Brown bear brown bear what do you see? I see a white polar bear looking at me. The kids were really good with their animals and would correct me on what they were! We had grapes and granola bars for lunch and talked about how they both started with the letter G. We made shakers and danced around to the ABC songs. Then we had primary songs and each practiced leading the music. Definately not the boy's favorite! We read some of my favorite book... If you give a Mouse a Cookie and a few Dr. Suess books. Finally we traced letters and of course played. We had a lot of fun!

Lesson Plan For Music Day! (Friday the 26th)

Well it is Music Day this next Friday. I thought I would clue everyone in on what I had been brainstorming. I thought the kids could all safely make shakers (empty water bottles or vitamin/medicine containers filled with rice). I would prepare the other instruments before hand. Such as sandpaper hot glued on wood blocks etc. I have a few educational children's CDs that we will learn and shake our shakers to. They have songs like the ABCs, Days of the week, Colors etc. I thought we could also pull out London's Primary CD and briefly teach them how to lead music and let each child take a turn standing in front of the other children. Let me know what you think or if you have other ideas to add! Thanks for all you do! London is thoroughly enjoying preschool!