October 1st!
We brought out our Easels today and all the kids took turns coloring with chalk and markers. We had out Instruments and did lacing as well. During play time I pulled aside our newest children and did assessments on them (Kept on file). We introduced patterns today and took turns making patterns with our ice cream flavors. The kids picked out 2 colors and made a pattern on their paper. They were also given the words: I like ice cream. and had to arrange them in order and then read the sentence. (Keep practicing at home so they learn the individual words or letters.) We got out playdoh and the kids tried rolling it to make worms. They each got a paper ruler and they measured how many inches their worm was. (I forgot to send those home so I will try and remember that on Thursday. Help them learn how to measure things at home. We measured utensils as well) We all enjoyed a little Ice Cream treat today (myself included).
September 26
On Thursday after pictures we had enough time to do our Circle Time and then learn a little about the letter H. We talked about the season changing to Fall on the 22nd and looked and touched leaves that had already started changing colors and fell off the trees. We did a hedgehog picture with the leaves. After seeing a picture, many children made their leaves stand up like the quills on the hedgehog. I let them just create so many of you probably didn't even see the hedgehog that was on the paper once they were finished : )
September 24
Letter G
Stations:
Large Block Play
Geodes and Gems (Petrified Wood, Formica, ect) with Magnifying Glasses and Flash lights
Cutting practice
Legos
Books
We read The Gingerbread Man and then went on a hunt. We introduced Graphing. The gingerbread man left buttons and we were to find which color he liked the most. We colored the buttons on a paper and then found out at the end that he liked the color pink the most. After the hunt the kids found our gingerbread cookies and got to eat them.
After that we cut out story squares and then pasted them in the order of what happened in the story. (Story Sequencing) Boy, we were out of time by that point!
Tuesday, October 1, 2013
Saturday, September 21, 2013
Pictures
Let me know if you want your children's pictures added.
Bubble Wrap Painting
This was our Bubbles day. The kids had a lot fun blowing bubbles.
I enjoyed it just as much as them.
Our Cereal sensory.
All of the kids came over and played in them and loved lacing them the most. The enjoyed working together to fill the bottle.
Q is enjoying book time
Fingerpainting
These eggs were soaked in grape juice overnight. We had our Dental Hygienist come over and after she left the kids got to practice brushing the junk off the eggs. We tried doing little circles like she taught us.
C is practicing with our mouth model
This was after the kids were finished brushing.
Thursday, September 19, 2013
Week 3
Tuesday:
Letter F
Fire Safety: Hot things burn, story song, activity
This is the first lesson in my Fire Safety Program. We go through the house and talk about things that are hot and what we can touch and things that will hurt us.
Feelings and Faces: We made faces and learned how to draw them and our different emotions we have.
Finger Painting (sorry for the green hands)
Snacks: Fruit (Grapes)
Word: for
Sentence: This is for me.
Fire Safety: Hot things burn, story song, activity
This is the first lesson in my Fire Safety Program. We go through the house and talk about things that are hot and what we can touch and things that will hurt us.
Feelings and Faces: We made faces and learned how to draw them and our different emotions we have.
Finger Painting (sorry for the green hands)
Snacks: Fruit (Grapes)
Word: for
Sentence: This is for me.
Thursday:
Letter D
Stations:
Dress up
Cars
Manipulative: Stackers
Puzzles
Dental Health: We had a Dental Hygienist come and talk to the kids today about their teeth and how to care for them. It was great and all the kids had fun as we saw pictures and practiced how to brush and floss. She brought a picture for the kids to color.
Brush Egg's with Toothbrushes: I hard boiled eggs and soaked them in Grape Juice over night. The kids got to practice what we learned by brushing in small circles.
Snacks: I just cut up a few pears. We ran out of time for our other plans.
Stations:
Dress up
Cars
Manipulative: Stackers
Puzzles
Dental Health: We had a Dental Hygienist come and talk to the kids today about their teeth and how to care for them. It was great and all the kids had fun as we saw pictures and practiced how to brush and floss. She brought a picture for the kids to color.
Brush Egg's with Toothbrushes: I hard boiled eggs and soaked them in Grape Juice over night. The kids got to practice what we learned by brushing in small circles.
Snacks: I just cut up a few pears. We ran out of time for our other plans.
Thursday, September 12, 2013
Week Two
Week Two
Letter C
Stations:
Cars
Sensory: Cereal, bottles, yarn for lacing, cups (All of the kids huddled around lacing their cheerios)
Pretend Play: Dress up
Castle Play
Tools
Circle Time: The kids love their jobs for the week.
Science: Bake Cookies, Why do things change? Heat.
Art: Cookie Art: Circles, Cutting, Gluing on Cereal (Shape of a circle) Make "Cookies" with brown paper. I really wanted to get the kids started on using scissors so this was a great activity for that.
Math: Puzzles
Snacks: Carrots and Ranch for dipping
Book Mmmm Cookies, the kids got to bring home their cookie they made.
Letter E
Stations:
Sensory: Dirt
Play Outside for Gross Motor
Inside: Books, Puzzles, Mega Blocks (No one played inside)
Circle Time-
Elephants, video, picture, facts (Did you know that Elephants have large ears but can't hear very well?)
Earth, 2 meanings(Soil, and Planet)
Language: Word: Eat Sentence: I can eat.
We are starting a new thing. Learning the letter, a word, and a sentence. I was going to wait on this but decided to just try it out. I don't think they are quite ready but they can learn the difference between the 3 things.
Elephant Game- Kids color the Elephant (learn about the color Gray), then cut and glue on the paper bag. For the game: The kids feed the Elephant the correct Peanut as directed.
Letter E Art- Each child writes the Upper and Lower case E. Glue on the letters and kids sprinkle earth (dirt) on top (Outside). We also jumped on the Earth and Ran on the Earth.
Snacks: We had Pluots (Cross between a Plum and an Apricot)
End: Elephant Game and the book "Be Brown"
Letter C
Stations:
Cars
Sensory: Cereal, bottles, yarn for lacing, cups (All of the kids huddled around lacing their cheerios)
Pretend Play: Dress up
Castle Play
Tools
Circle Time: The kids love their jobs for the week.
Science: Bake Cookies, Why do things change? Heat.
Art: Cookie Art: Circles, Cutting, Gluing on Cereal (Shape of a circle) Make "Cookies" with brown paper. I really wanted to get the kids started on using scissors so this was a great activity for that.
Math: Puzzles
Snacks: Carrots and Ranch for dipping
Book Mmmm Cookies, the kids got to bring home their cookie they made.
Letter E
Stations:
Sensory: Dirt
Play Outside for Gross Motor
Inside: Books, Puzzles, Mega Blocks (No one played inside)
Circle Time-
Elephants, video, picture, facts (Did you know that Elephants have large ears but can't hear very well?)
Earth, 2 meanings(Soil, and Planet)
Language: Word: Eat Sentence: I can eat.
We are starting a new thing. Learning the letter, a word, and a sentence. I was going to wait on this but decided to just try it out. I don't think they are quite ready but they can learn the difference between the 3 things.
Elephant Game- Kids color the Elephant (learn about the color Gray), then cut and glue on the paper bag. For the game: The kids feed the Elephant the correct Peanut as directed.
Letter E Art- Each child writes the Upper and Lower case E. Glue on the letters and kids sprinkle earth (dirt) on top (Outside). We also jumped on the Earth and Ran on the Earth.
Snacks: We had Pluots (Cross between a Plum and an Apricot)
End: Elephant Game and the book "Be Brown"
Thursday, September 5, 2013
Our First Week
This is kind of a rough overview of our week. This just gives you an idea of the things we cover so you know and also so you can ask your child more in depth questions about their day. For the assessments I asked if they knew Capital Letters, numbers 1-10 by recognition, shapes, colors, how high they could count, how they colored and how they cut. I will keep them on file till the end of the year. If you would like to see them, just let me know. This gives me an idea of what I need to focus on and who needs help.
Tuesday, September 3rd
September 3rd
For stations we had
Sensory: bubbles and Utensils to play in
Block Play: Cardboard Blocks
Bristle Blocks
Fine Motor: Potato Heads
Literacy: Books
Cars
During Free Choice Play I pulled children aside for assessments. I will keep these on file until the end of the year. If you would like to see them, let me know.
Circle Time consists of The Calendar, Pledge, Weather, Counting, Practicing our Letters, Songs or Rhymes, and any instruction we have that day. Each child has a job for the week. For instance we have a "Librarian" and they pass out the books and collect them when we practice our letters. We do them in Composition notebooks that we keep here.
We did a "First Day of Preschool" page that I am keeping for their binder.
Snacks: Apples
We learned about seasons a little and focused on Autumn. We made Leaf People and the kids followed directions on how to draw a person. (If they didn't know)
Goodbye Stories
We ran out of time to do more but with it being our first day we were learning the rules and figuring things out.
Thursday, September 5th
September 5th
Stations:
Sensory: Bubble Wrap on the counter and floor with large cars to roll on
Fine Motor/Pretend Play: Buildings (with people and animals)
Literacy: Books
Gross Motor: Balls to throw into Basket and Box
During Play time I finished assessments with the kids
Circle Time: See above
Song for this week: Here we are Together
Art: Bubble Wrap Painting. The kids each got a piece of Bubble Wrap that they painted with Orange Paint and when they were finished we laid their paper on top to transfer over.
Snacks: Blowing Bubbles with their milk and Bread
Science: Make homemade Bubbles (6C water, 1C dish soap, 1/2C corn syrup). The kids made their wands out of pipe cleaners.
Goodbye story and went outside to blow their bubbles.
Tuesday, September 3rd
September 3rd
For stations we had
Sensory: bubbles and Utensils to play in
Block Play: Cardboard Blocks
Bristle Blocks
Fine Motor: Potato Heads
Literacy: Books
Cars
During Free Choice Play I pulled children aside for assessments. I will keep these on file until the end of the year. If you would like to see them, let me know.
Circle Time consists of The Calendar, Pledge, Weather, Counting, Practicing our Letters, Songs or Rhymes, and any instruction we have that day. Each child has a job for the week. For instance we have a "Librarian" and they pass out the books and collect them when we practice our letters. We do them in Composition notebooks that we keep here.
We did a "First Day of Preschool" page that I am keeping for their binder.
Snacks: Apples
We learned about seasons a little and focused on Autumn. We made Leaf People and the kids followed directions on how to draw a person. (If they didn't know)
Goodbye Stories
We ran out of time to do more but with it being our first day we were learning the rules and figuring things out.
Thursday, September 5th
September 5th
Stations:
Sensory: Bubble Wrap on the counter and floor with large cars to roll on
Fine Motor/Pretend Play: Buildings (with people and animals)
Literacy: Books
Gross Motor: Balls to throw into Basket and Box
During Play time I finished assessments with the kids
Circle Time: See above
Song for this week: Here we are Together
Art: Bubble Wrap Painting. The kids each got a piece of Bubble Wrap that they painted with Orange Paint and when they were finished we laid their paper on top to transfer over.
Snacks: Blowing Bubbles with their milk and Bread
Science: Make homemade Bubbles (6C water, 1C dish soap, 1/2C corn syrup). The kids made their wands out of pipe cleaners.
Goodbye story and went outside to blow their bubbles.
Thursday, May 16, 2013
Pictures
Egg Experiment
Egg Experiment
Comb Painting
Detective for the Day
Field Trip to the Police Station
Sorting
Making the letter R with Popcorn
Spaghetti Painting
Pinto Bean Sensory
Water Xylophone
X's with Pretzels
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