Were Talkin Bugs

Bugs, bugs, bugs, lets talk bugs.

"What do you suppose?
A bee sat on my nose.
Then what do you think?
He gave me a wink
And said, "I beg your pardon,
I thought you were the garden."

Today in school, our focus yet again was centered around bugs! We made big bugs, little bugs, fat bugs, and small bugs. BUGS,BUGS,BUGS!!! 

Within our bug adventure we made two different pattern strips using butterfly's and grasshopper's. While the kids crafted I reread "Bugs in your Backyard"!

  

We learned letter Z and number ten, and to decorate our ten's we added little black beans and made them into spiders. To continue on with our number and bug theme we made a caterpillar with ten sections. This was beneficial to your children because it gave them the chance to practice writing their numbers in a way that was fun. Finally, as our last project of the day we made our very own grasshopper puzzles. Overall we had a very BUZZZYY day!

 Stay tuned to find out our next adventure! 

Until then, have a great weekend!

Megan.

P.S. Watch out where you are walking, you wouldn't want to squish any of our new beloved friends!    

Lets go Marching!

Lets go marching!

Did you know that lady bugs smell out of their feet? Interesting right! Did you know that the simple shape of a diamond can be made into a kite, ring, birds beak and even a heart! Your kids learned all of these great facts this week in school. Our lessons focused primarily on the life of a bug. Yesterday, we learned all about what it is like to be a little ladybug. To follow along with our theme we crafted our very own ladybugs! Of course they turned out a little bit bigger then your average size ladybug but we tried our best. To finish up our day the kids and I filled the classroom with our beautiful version of the "Ants go marching one by one!"

 Overall we had a great day!  

Thanks again for reading, have a great week!

-Megan 

Ode to Mothers.

Attention all Mothers!

You should feel so loved! Our theme for preschool this week is all about you! As much as it kills me I promised to keep my lips sealed and not share what exactly we did. However, I will share they have been putting so much effort into making your mothers day one to remember! I hope you thoroughly enjoy! It has been so fun watching there thoughtfulness truly shine through this week. It melts my heart when I ask what color or design they want to use and they reply with "my mommy's favorite color is blue so that is what I want to use".  If only children could stay this cute and innocent forever! 
Anyway, Happy Mother's Day (almost)! 

Until next time!
-Megan  
 
 

Lets talk rainforest

Welcome Readers!

The stubborn sun is playing tricks on us today. It started out shinning brightly for all to see early this morning, but soon it cowered back behind a cloud leaving  a sorry gray gloom to welcome in our week. To accommodate the sad weather we started school by singing "Oh Mr. Sun". 

For those of you who don't know, the kids are currently hard at work learning about the rainforest. Today, acted as a huge craft day! We really did a great job of getting our creative juices flowing. Here are some of the crafts we made. Don't be alarmed when you pick up your child today and realize they don't have one. We are making a rain forest book that will hold all of our crafts together.  It will be sent home later in the week.  

I hope you enjoyed! Make sure to ask your kids what they know about the rainforest! We have learned some pretty interesting things this past week, like how big an anaconda can grow up to...you will have to ask your preschooler to find out the answer;) 

Howdy Y'all

Howdy Partner! 

If you can't tell by my lingo your preschooler's and I set out on the range to explore cowboy's and cowgirl's. We started out our expedition by going over the letter C, can you guess why? 

Aside from just cow boys and gals the kids also discovered lots of other things that start with C. One of the crafts for the day was taking our upper, and lower case C's and gluing cotton ball's onto them just like this one.

 Our next craft included making our very own cowboy hats to fashion off, they really enjoyed this and were sad to have to take them off when it was time to grab some grub.

 The rest of our day was spent reading books on what it is like to be a cowboy. We also sang aloud a new song called "My cowboy hat".
Now, that's all about  cowboy small! Y'all come back now, ya hear! 
Happy trails!
-Cowgirl Meg.  
 

Were going on a bear hunt!

 

We kicked off our week today by chanting the kids new favorite song "Were going on a bear hunt", because I am sure you will be hearing this song over the next few days I posted a link where you can find the lyrics so you are able to sing along! Have fun!=) If you are anything like me I can assure you that you will be singing it for the rest of the day. Check it out, it is actually a very fun song to sing.  http://www.timmyabell.com/music/lyrics/ol/bearhunt.htm

 To go along with our song of the day we went ahead and spent our afternoon putting our "sewing" skills to the test. Here is what we came up with! 

 

We ended our day in preschool by practicing how to make capital and lowercase B's. Feel free to continue on with this at home. Everyone did a pretty good job we just have to keep working on making the letters fit correctly on the lines. 

Thanks for reading! Happy Monday, and I hope you have a great week! 

 

Fairy tale lane

Oh Mr. Sun! Where are you?!

Come out, come out, where ever you are!  

Greetings everyone! First off I would like to apologize for going MIA on you all these past few weeks. February has proven itself to be a crazy month so fur, unfortunately with its various holidays and snow storms our time in the classroom has been limited. However the kids are back and ready to learn! Below is a list of what we have been up to.

We have had an extra fun theme this past week.  Each day the kids studied a new fairy tale character. So far we have covered the gingerbread man, three billy goats gruff, and today was Goldie locks and the three bears. We start each lesson by making a hand held character from the story who we then motion along as we read aloud. The kids have had a lot of fun with this! 

Aside from all our fairy tale talk, your children have been hard at work continuing to master their basic skills. For the month of February we have covered the number seven, letter X, and our pattern of pink, pink, red, white. Today we worked especially hard on writing numbers 1-10. The kids spent a solid hour writing each one out. Please feel free to dig deeper in our recent topics, every little bit helps!  Homework: Work on knowing the difference between the right or left side of something. With all of the crafts we do and when we say the pledge in the morning having this skill down can be really helpful. Also, continue on with having your children practice their letters and numbers. Practice only makes perfect! 

Thanks for reading! I hope you all have a great day! 

Hopefully the sun will be able to make an appearance here someday soon!