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! 

 

Mail's Here!

Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn. -Benjamin Franklin 

Happy Monday Everyone!

The kids and I kicked off our week in preschool today by jumping for joy that there are only three day's left  until Valentines day! Reminder: we will be having a small Valentines party on Thursday. Each child is expected to hand out individual Valentines to share with their friends. Have them personally write out each name, this will be great writing practice for your preschooler! Also, if you have more then one child  attending Marys please send a Valentine from each child, not as a family. This is will involve everyone and make them feel apart of the holiday.

 To continue on from last weeks lesson, the kids reviewed the work of a mailman. With this lesson we covered what things get sent in the mail,why we have mail and what we have to do with our mail before the mailman is able to deliver it. We also went on and shared if anyone has ever received something in the mail before. If you are looking for a special project to do with your child please consider letting them send out a letter in the mail so they can get some experience in what we are talking about. 

 

Currently, we are discussing letter D, today we reviewed more on what things begin with D.  Continue on with this from home! Our activity of the day was spent counting hearts. Each child started out with a black and white worksheet with seven hearts. Their job was to color each  heart differently. They were then given seven cut out hearts with a number on the front. To play the game all you have to do is match up the number with the correct heart on the worksheet. It is pretty self-explanatory once you see the worksheet if that was not clear enough. 

Homework: Have your child come with completed valentines for Thursday's class party. Work on mailing letters, if you don't want to let them mail a letter personally have them grab the mail out of the mailbox a few times. Continue working on what words begin with letter D, and play through our counting game throughout the week. 

Have a great week! Thank you for reading!

-Megan

February Fun!

Lets Review!

We are kicking off the month of February in style! Today, the kids worked hard bringing in the new month by dusting off their brains and thinking back to everything we learned in January. Here is a brief summery of everything we went over. Your child was also sent home with a reminder for you on our progress. Keep it close, and refer back over time to keep the information fresh in your children's minds.

January Review: 
Color's of the month: Yellow, white, and blue
Letter's: Yy, Nn, Ii
Pattern: ABC
Number: six
Shape: crescent
Theme: Outer space
 To complete our review we made flash cards of everything that we have learned over the course of January. Use these cards to review with your child. 

Out with the old and in with the new...almost.To bring our space lesson to an end we did one final project today. The kids were given a worksheet titled "When I was in space I saw (fill in the blank)", They were set off on their own to come up with anything and everything they could think of that would be seen in outer space. Everyone did really well with this. I was surprised at the depth and detail that went into their pictures. For example; they remembered that Mars is known as the red planet and colored it according. Pretty impressive!

Finally, we topped off our bright and sunny Monday by putting our crafting skills to work. The kids set off on one last space expiation. Your little space explorers worked hard at decorating their very own astronaut helmets to help them breathe in space! 

Here is a sneak peak at today's snack in honer on groundhogs day! Ssshhhhhh! It's a surprise!

Thanks for reading! Have a great day!
-Megan

Shoot for the stars

"Shoot for the moon! Even if you miss it you will land among the stars"-Les Brown

Our week has been filled to the brim with everything over the clouds...literately. With each day we dig further and further into the world above. We started out Monday by making a new pattern strip using various sizes of crescents. From there the kids put their counting skills to the test and completed a fallow by number worksheet. They were rewarded in the end by realizing the numbers made the shape of the big dipper. We then went onto making our very own models of the solar system. Wednesday, our time was spent reading the story "If I could go to space". After, we made a bright and fiery sunshine while we sang the words to "Oh, Mr. Sun". Then Thursday came around and the kids were giddy with smiles while they put their creativity to work. Together, we created two new books. The first was a moon book, using tin foil to make the shape of a moon at each stage in an orbit. For the second book we put our thinking caps on and came up with objects that included the shape of a crescent in its original form. Our list consisted of a smile, moon, sail boat, and umbrella. 

Aside from all of our solar crafts, the kids have been hard at work continuing to learn their everyday skills. This week we really focused on following directions. We completed various worksheets that required everyone to listen closely so they would know what to do. Learning number six and letters I, N, and Y continued. We practiced the days of the week and worked a tad on finding the difference between the top, bottom, and middle of something.
All in all making for a pretty busy week here in preschool.
Have a great weekend!
-Megan