Blue Day......or is it PINK day!

It may have been blue day for the kids, but all I could do was have PINK PINK PINK on the brain!

At the anticipation of his little girl, the Ph.D, rocket science, aero-dymanics son has been brought to his knees!  Baby Hofferth due July 31st.   Congrats Jerrod and beautiful momma, Jacqueline!

Ok,.....here's some picks of Blue Day!

Working as TEAM BLUE cleaning up!

What's up with the funny faces?  They're saying Blue..........

Purple People Play!

Our color unit is coming along with Purple day!

Purple play dough, collages and letter sticks!

New manipulatives have come out of storage and the children are learning how to use them. (I have a whole garage full)

IT'S YOGA WEDNESDAYS!  The kids are absolutely having a blast with our Zoo Yoga! I am so impressed at their balancing skills.  As you can see from the pics they are quite amazing!  Every Wednesday we will continue with our movement games and Yoga.  

 Flying like an eagle....

Look at that strength and balance!

"F" is for frog!

"S" Snail crawl.

...and so ends Purple Day with our super hero!

Here We Go Again...

Hello Families: After weeks of planning, computer glitches and just plain busy, our class blog is now updated.  Be sure to see all the new posts! We've been working on fine motor as you can see with our large tweezers.  Looks easy, but its not for little hands.  This is a great way to strengthen those hand muscles and fingers!

We have started our "Science and Color of Art" unit off with a favorite of the boys....GREEN!

Many of them have not fingerprinted before so this was a new experience as we are ALLOWED to use our hands. Some were even hesitant at first and I guided their hands into the paint.

New folder games have been added working on beginning sounds and putting numbers in order.  They did quite well!

GO GREEN!   

Learning about the Arctic

 Reading is fun when you can read inside an igloo!  We learned to take turns so everyone got to "live" in the igloo.

Thursdays class has worked on skills such as shape recognition and fine motor skills, whether using a crayon or glue stick

Learning is intense! : )

Proud to have sorted by colors!

There's team work going on during clean up time.

Some learn to make up their stories while spending time with books (a beginning stage to reading), while others have started learning to read with one-on-one instruction.

Reading, learning to stand in line or sitting in circle time are things that are preparing children for Kindergarten!

  
And making new friends
                                                                         is the BEST!

We're Having 'SNOW' Much Fun!

This week letters were P, S, A   Our snowman letters have been put in order over and over again.  Some spelled their name too.

Penguin play and Penguin letter matching.

The snowballs were a hit. When we throw them in the bucket, they light up!  

Winter Session Begins with learning about snow and the arctic weather.  We worked on vocabulary with words from WINTER:  cold, shiver, iceberg and many more.  It's great to hear them using the words and expanding their vocabulary!

The children have done great getting back to the routine and they made some new friends too.

Science this week was learning how long it takes a bottle of ice to melt.  Some decided it would be anywhere from 400 Trillion minutes or until the end of class.  : ) They brought up comments like " it has to get warm",  "ice turns into water",  "the ice keeps the water cold".  Great thinking!

Thursday class has many new students and made many new friends as they checked out the learning centers.   We learned how to pattern at the manipulative table and did some problem solving while playing in our arctic playset.

We began learning letter and sounds with our zoo friends.  Zoo Phonic program teaches the letter, sound and a movement all at once instead of separately.  This not only is faster, but the child makes the connection of a sound as they learn the letter.

During quiet reading time, the children took off with an idea.  The wanted to tell stories to each other, so they lined up the chairs and each had a book.  They stood up one at a time to "read" their story to the class.  This was TOTALLY child directed and I stood back and observed.  Isn't it amazing what they can do?!  This showed critical thinking, problem solving and creativity!   We welcomed Miss Debbie, Mcqueens' new Preschool teacher as she 'shadowed' me for the morning.

Friday class was fun with celebrating Jon's birthday, making snowy pictures and of course, Gym Class!

Parachute time - we had to work as a team to make the ball bounce!

The easels  were out to draw and write some vocabulary words.  Great snowman!

Enjoy your long weekend and see you next Wednesday!