Last couple times

Last Preschool at my house we went over the letter Y. We talked about things that start with that sound. Then we played a "mother may I?" game where if the word started with a Y then they could move forward. We also played hide-and-seek with sounds. We worked on our worksheets and had fun gluing yarn everywhere., I'm sure you loved that. I will miss doing this next year.

S0 a couple weeks ago when it was that COLD Wednesday class at my house, we made ourselves into the letter V. Then we did some fun games at the computer reviewing some past sounds and worked on our worksheets. That was right before grabbing our yummy rabbit crackers to take to the park and freeze our booties off. Good times. We missed Alyssa though.

Today at Preschool!

Today we talked about action words! We took pictures for the blog then we went to the neighborhood playground and put the action words into action!
We came back and had snacks while we read 3 chapters of the book then had playtime.

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!

The Rest of the Year!

Hooray the McKenzie's are back! Here is the schedule for the rest of the year. If you have a conflict with a day that you are teaching please try to trade with someone!

We are going to try and take one last field trip using the Culture Pass from the Library! My vote is Children's Museum or the Science Museum! We can decide when it gets closer. I am throwing out the date of MAY 1 (that's a Friday). Please let me know if that works for you! Then we will decide where we are going!

I will be gone by May 13. So if you guys want to do an end of the year party or get together of some sort someone else will need to take charge! Unless of course you just want to do it before the 13th and I would be glad to do it---just let me know!

So take a look at the side bar for the rest of the year's schedule!

Today at Preschool

Today we started preschool with our art project. The goal was to do straw paintings (note to self: must water down the paint first) I t did not go exactly to plan, but, was fun anyhow.
We then went in and worked on the letter Xx. We talked about its sound and then did a writting page. We then read the last Sunset of the Sabertooth and Started Midnight on the Moon. We followed this with snacks and play time.

Today at Preschool!

I apologize for slacking on the blogging! I don't know what my problem is! Here is a very brief run down of the last two preschool days at my house!

DAY 1

Question of the day-- Do you like summer or winter better? What do you like to do in the summer/winter?

Then we made a graph from our question! This was a great way to talk about most, least, higher, lower, and to also have a visual of our question! I will definitely start doing this more! This actually covers a lot of general math skills as well!

Then we reviewed phonograms o, c, a, d, and learned s. We reviewed the writing of these letters as well using the visual of a clock. All of these letters start at 2 o clock and make a circle or part of a circle! It was kind of a lot of writing but they did get through the whole thing and it was an excellent review!

There was all of the other every day things like circle time, calendar, centers, play time and snacks!

DAY 2
Easter!

Ww---Today we learned about Ww! I started saying words like water, wood, and the kids got the letter right away! What smarties! Then they each had to come up with a word that started with W. They were each able to do this without any problem. Then we made a giant w on the floor with tape. We hopped (like the Easter Bunny) on the path of the w first saying down down down up up up down down down up up up (to make the shape of the w). Then we said wa wa wa (not wa wa wa like a baby but the sound of w--how do you type that one up?)

Then we did some fun Easter crafts. We made a paper bag bunny and some Easter basket cupcakes!

Today at Preschool!

Here is the rundown for our fun day at preschool....

* We started out with our circle time songs on the magic blanket

* I showed them three different pictures, toys, tree, time and they all had to guess what the letter of the day was! They all were right on!

* This is when the wiggles began so we took a short recess to play and also have snack

* During snack (apples and pretzels) we read 2 chapters of our book.

* Then we talked about volcanoes, Israel shared that he had seen one in Hawaii. We went into the basic description of how the heat and pressure build causing an enormous eruption!

* Then for the fun we created a volcano out of clay and then we all painted it. We all took turns pouring the baking soda, dish soap, and then for the vinegar! The reaction was priceless!