Preschool 9/29

Theme
Animals of the Forest, Day 2

Circle Time

Read the book 'Bear's New Friend'. I love these books! The pictures are so cute and the moral behind the story is always a good one.

We pretended to be raccoons digging through trash to find something good by only feeling and not looking. I had about 6 things in a sack and they took turns reaching in to find one thing. Then they had to describe what it felt like (smooth, pokey, soft) and guess what it was before pulling it out.

Then we made a chart with 4 animals on it. We took turns saying our favorite one and then I wrote our name under it. Friday we'll do this again and see if their favorite changed.

Centers

They enjoyed the trains and animal hospital again today. I had set out letter B worksheets at the table in case some wandered over to do some. They all eventually did but didn't take any interest in writing, just coloring. That was fine because we just talked about things that start with the letter B (some of which were on their paper).

Megan and Tatum took turns 'reading' books to each other.

Snack
During snack time I read them another story 'The Kissing Hand'. This was such a cute book and I'm surprised I'd never seen it before. I had only checked it out from the library because the raccoons on the cover went along with our theme but after having read it, it might have to be a permanent book in our house.

At the end of the story was the sign for 'I Love You' so I showed them how to do it with their fingers.

Isaiah wanted to have a picnic snack on the floor so we had our fishy crackers there. They we 'seasoning' their crackers with the play food. Haha! I held up a potato and asked them what it was -

Isaiah said 'chicken nugget'
Megan said 'cantaloupe'
Tatum said 'bean'
Only Lola said 'potato'!!

Made me wonder if they knew what all the other play food was that they play with?!

Art

We did 2 art projects today. I didn't really care for how our letter A collages turned out the week before so I wanted to do something different for B.

I held up the paper and asked them if they know what letter that was. Right away Tatum yelled out 'B'!!! Yay!

They first colored it with a Brown crayon and then proceeded to glue lots & lots of Buttons on. They loved this!

Our next art project was doing an animal habitat. I loved seeing how each of their papers came together. Each so different and imaginative. Great work guys!