F is For...

F is for….Family, Fish, Friends, Fruit, Fly, Fox….and Focus!

Hello, and happy Monday!

 If you haven’t been able to tell yet what our theme was today…you may need to get your eyes checked!

Today our theme was letter F! We started out the day by going around and saying what we like to do with our families, and then moved on to list everything that came to our minds that started with letter F. The first craft of the day was taking our cut out F’s and beautifying them with our little fingerprints. After getting all cleaned up from that we moved on to talking about how many people were in each of our families, which then led to my favorite craft of the year so far; family portraits! This I must say was a bit humorous to watch, but at the same time it was also so exciting to see everything a child picks up on. At one point in the activity one student in particular pointed out to me that they made daddy much bigger then mommy because really that’s how it was. As simple as that sounds it was invigorating to hear just how observant your children are and that they have the knowledge to put such details into their art work. One really awesome part of doing the family portraits today was that we will be doing the project once again later in the spring to show you how far your preschooler has come throughout the year! So if possible store there artwork that was sent home and come back to it later in the year, my hope is to absolutely blow you away with their progress!

Last but not least, our final topic of the day; Feelings! As you can imagine this was a pretty fun topic to cover here at Mary’s being that we have such dramatic, silly kids. We started out by giving each child a two sided face, one side wearing a happy smile and the other a gloomy sad frown. Then we went onto asking aloud various questions that could be answered by showing a happy face or a sad face. Here are just some examples: Grandma and Grandpa are coming for a visit, does this make you happy or sad? The bee stung you today while you were playing outside, would you have a sad face or a happy face when the bee stung you? And so on…

Finally we ended our Monday by chanting loudly “if you’re happy and you know it clap your hands!”

So now after hearing all about our day I hope you can bring your Monday to a close by ending the same way we did. “If you’re happy and you know it clap your hands!”

Thank you and goodnight!