Friday, October 29, 2010

Halloween Party

I can't believe this was the only picture I took today! We ended our day with a Halloween lunch and some extra play time. The kids enjoyed the cute cupcakes Christine made. :)

Wednesday, October 27, 2010

Preschool 10/27

Theme:
Halloween!

Circle Time

Books: The Halloween Play, There Was An Old Lady Who Swallowed A Bat

We played Trick or Treat memory and Halloween Bingo. I printed them out from a website online and the kids really liked playing both games, Bingo especially. It was easy - only 9 squares but just easy enough that they were interested.

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Halloween costume dress-up with paper doll (and dude).


Sort the monsters eyeballs. There were 6 different colored monsters and eyeballs and each monster had a different number of eyes.


Princesses chatting on their phones.


Pretending they are in the car going to a doctor appointment.


Art

These are the glue ghosts we started on Monday. Basically you just draw an outline of a ghost on wax paper using Elmer's glue and then fill it in with more glue so you can't see the paper. Add some eyeballs an let dry over night.


Ta-Da! Super cute ghosts!
The kids role played with them for a bit today making ghost sounds and chasing each other around.

Did our letter of the week - F is for fish crackers.


Outside/Science

I'd been wanting to do this with the kids and thought what better time than Halloween? I played it off as we were going to mix a secret potion that would become ooze. We started with green food coloring first.


I told the kids to scoot back a bit because they were crowding and I didn't know how crazy it would foam up. This isn't exactly what I'd meant...


Then we added some purple coloring and did it again.


...and again.


They then went and made their own witches soup. The dump truck was filled with rain water and they kept dumping random stuff in - wood chips, leaves, dirt, whatever they could find.


Snack

Fish crackers and raisins

Monday, October 25, 2010

Preschool 10/25

Theme:
Halloween!

Letter: F
Number: 7
Color: Orange and Black
Shape: Triangle

Circle Time

Books: Happy Halloween board book, Cliffords Halloween, Ghosts in the House

We started our theme with just talking about what they know about Halloween - which pretty much summed up to dressing up and candy. I asked them what they did over the weekend, if any of them went to a Halloween party? Isaiah said he went to Olivia's soccer game and stayed home and played games. Megan said her daddy took her to a movie and Red Robin. Tatum said she went to Red Robin too. Lola said I don't want to talk about it. Haha...

Art

Used Halloween stickers and used a picture of a triangle to put them on. Then they practiced with the triangle in the middle and writing the word triangle.





They did some cookie cutter stamping with orange and black paint.



This got REAL messy, REAL fast. The table was basically black by the time they were done. They really enjoyed it though and didn't seem to mind getting messy, I wouldn't expect anything less from preschoolers! :)



We also did some quick glue ghosts...pictures will be in the next post. They had to dry overnight so they weren't quite ready until Wednesday.

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Silly kids trying to decide what they should do next. Isaiah looks kind of scared of Tatum in this picture. She was doing a funny face of course.


They pounded pegs into our class pumpkin (kind of like lite brite except we didn't carve it first). They all kept coming back to this multiple times during the day.



Cute friends digging in the sensory bin.


Finger puppets.


Snack

Open face little bagel with cream cheese and Halloween sprinkles and an orange

Friday, October 22, 2010

Preschool 10/22

Theme:
Community Helpers

Circle Time

Songs - Einsy Spider, Wheels on the Bus, Baby Bumblebee
Books - Trashy Town, Community Helpers A-Z


Today we talked about garbage men and mailmen being community helpers. Just as luck would have it today was our garbage day so we anxiously awaited the garbage man to pick up our trash. When he came, the kids were glued to the window until he was out of sight. We noticed when he drives he stands up and is not sitting down. I asked them why they thought he was wearing a bright yellow vest and where they think he takes the trash too. Megan apparently was the only one who's been to the dump because the other kids didn't seem to know what I was talking about. Or maybe they'd forgotten if they had ever been?


We also talked about using the phone for help and dialing 9-1-1. I gave them scenarios of situations and asked them if they should call 911 or not. They all seemed to understand what an emergency was so hopefully they won't unnecessarily call it one day...

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We cut paper, used stickers and crayons and 'made' our own mail stuffing it into envelopes. We pretended to deliver it around the room.


Played with wooden blocks and made our own city complete with fire station, police station, library, etc. They used the matchbox cars on the 'roads' they made.



Outside

It was kind of a yucky day today so we had an indoor playground!



Snack

Pooh crackers, raisins and peanuts


Wednesday, October 20, 2010

Preschool 10/20

Theme:
Community Helpers

Circle Time

Books: Doctor Maisy

Today we talked about doctors being Community Helpers by helping us keep our bodies healthy. We go to them so they can check our bodies every year and we see them when we are sick and need medicine.

Art

We made a doctor's bag and glued down things that we thought would be in it.


We also did a paper plate dalmatian dog dipping their fingers in black paint to make his spots.

And we did our letter of the week project - E is for Elephant.

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The kids really, really got into the fireman role again! I arranged the chairs to be a 'fire truck' and they took turns driving the rest of us to the fire. We'd pretend squirt water on it and go rescue the babies and kitties (that's what they told me...). Gosh, we must have role played this for at least 20 minutes. Lola loved helping me make the siren noise on our way to the fires. :)

They also role played with the doctor kit, babies and stuffed animals. They did very good sharing and patiently waiting their turn with all the different instruments.


We worked a bit with tangrams .

Outside

I drew a 'road' on the patio and then some signs - stop light, yield and stop. They loved it and it was so warm out we all peeled off our jackets!


Snack

Pooh crackers


Monday, October 18, 2010

Preschool 10/18

Theme: Community Helpers


Letter: Continuing D and Introducing E
Number: 6
Color: Orange and Black
Shape: Triangle
Circle Time
We read 'Officer Buckle and Gloria' and 'Going to the Firehouse' books. We talked about what to do if there's a fire in your house and how you crawl on your tummy to an exit. We practicing STOP, DROP & ROLL. Then (thanks to Lola's awesome daddy!) I passed out fire hats and sticker badges. They had a blast playing with them and pretending they were putting out fires. :)


Art
I have a lot of art projects lined up for this week and they seemed interested enough to tackle some today.
We made a fingerprint counting book.



Our letter of the week project (this we didn't get to do last week for D)

Practiced writing the number 5 and then followed the activity on the page - color the mail letters, cut out and paste by the mailman's bag.


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Today we did some shadow matching with fireman objects, a fireman puzzle & some tracing lines from the cop to the robber. The kids enjoyed cooking food in the kitchen and took turns shopping, buying and being the cashier.
We also pulled out our sensory bin. They love to pretend they are witches cooking a stew. :)
Snack
Fish crackers & Animal crackers








Friday, October 15, 2010

Preschool Fieldtrip! 10/15

Our first fieldtrip and of course it was to the Craven Farms pumpkin patch! All week we've had fun learning about pumpkins and what a fun way to end the lesson and week.

Unfortunately poor Tatum came down with a stomach bug and couldn't go. We really missed her and wished she could've joined us. :(

Our first stop was a cookie and a 'farm story'. Then we were ushered out to look at some animals.


The kid's really enjoyed playing on all the fun outdoor things they had. Megan had some issues sharing and even after a time out was a little grump all day.


Megs and Isaiah tromped to the very END of the patch to find their perfect pumpkins.

They were so cute watching them walk together and discuss which pumpkins looked best. :)


Trying to get a cute picture of all of them with their pumpkins and Megan did NOT want to stand next to them. I'm not sure where this newfound independance is coming from but I'm pretty sure I don't like it.

She was in the picture but on her own terms. haha


It was such a fun day and I thank all the mommies (and grandparents!) that came.