Snow Day!

We picked a great day to play in the snow. Not to windy and not below zero-can't ask for much better in Rock Springs! The kids had a wonderful time.
I guess I failed to realize that the first thing everyone would want to do when they got in the snow was throw it at each other. And they all found out that it is only fun to throw, not get hit in the face with it. So after a quick gathering and creating some snow rules everyone was happy and excited to play in the snow!
They are just to funny! I could watch them and listen to their funny comments all day!- never a dull moment (especially when you are getting 7 kids in snow pants and boots at the same time).
Also today we:
-celebrated Alex's b-day (Ellie's was on Monday)
-made presents
-wrapped the ornaments we made
-our letter G page
-made a Santa clause
-read Christmas stories

I had to get another reindeer shot because Garen decided to finally participate in putting the reindeer ears on and Kristinah was back after being sick the last 2 weeks!

Presenting the Little Learners Preschool Chior ;)-

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Little Reindeer

The kids loved wearing the reindeer ears during our Christmas songs on Wednesday. I love how hard it is to get a good picture. :) We also enjoyed making our 'w' page, making sparkly icicles, writing in our Winter Journals, and talking about what clothes we wear in the snow.

builders-

doctors-I think Max has that shot thing down!

Driving in the snow

Monday we talked about driving safely in the snow and practiced. When I said the road also gets icy Max replied, 'I like slipping on the ice in my car.' :)-Go Rachel

-We also worked on tracing a star shape and talked about the importance of the star at Christ's birth.

-We made glittery snowflakes.

-read the 12 days of Winter and 5 little penguins slipping on the ice; and worked on numbers and counting

-We started a Winter Journal

-Sang Christmas songs

-And practiced the letter W-good job on all the show and tell that starts with 'W'!

Fire Station Field Trip

The fire station trip went well on Thursday. I think the kids learned some new things. And I learned a few things myself, likeI better get on the ball and make our family fire plan! Thanks everyone for coming!

Snowmen

We had a really fun day with snowmen today. We brought in snow, put on gloves and made mini snowmen. Some of the kids wanted to have a snowball fight too. :)


We made giant snowmen out of paper plates-

We learned about the letter 'J' and made our J page. And we drew snowmen using all the shapes instead of just a circle.
Here are the kids concentrating really hard on their work-
Alex-

Kristinah-

Garen-

Ellie-

Carter-

Zach-

I loved all the blue shirts today as well as the blue show and tell and blue snack!!! We practiced some rhyming today and I was surprised how well they all picked this skill up! We also read a funny story about 'What Snowmen Do At Night.' And a book about the color Blue.

See everyone on Wednesday-Hope we get Max back.

December Show and Tell

Nov. 30 - Something Blue
Dec. 7 - Something that starts with 'W'
Dec. 14 - Anything to do with Christmas
Dec. 21 - Bring a copy of your Letter to Santa to share with the class. CHRISTMAS PARTY!

NO PRESCHOOL December 23-January 3rd.
Preschool resumes January 4th!

December Snacks

Dec. 2 - Garen
Dec. 7 - Zach
Dec. 9 - Carter
Dec. 14 - Ellie
Dec. 16 - Alex
Jan. 4 - Max

In the Reading Corner

Cooking Turkeys

Today we talked about Thanksgiving and Turkeys. The kids got to baste turkeys in water, and make preposition book about turkeys. Also today we did the letter K and made Kiwi KoolAide.

During freeplay today the girls enjoyed dressing up-

Play Dough Letters

The kids had a great time making all the letters we've learned so far out of play dough.

Also today we

-made turkeys out of the kids' hands

-painted a book about Thanksgiving

-had show and tell

-played a Turkey action game

-and got to celebrate Carter's birthday

**Remember: to disguise your turkeys and bring them on Wednesday (if you don't get it done by then, feel free to bring in on Monday)

**Remember: dad's to take your child out hunting for at least 10 leaves to bring in on Monday.

**And Parent Teacher Conference is coming up on Nov. 17th. You're scheduled time was sent home. Please let me know if this work for you or if you need to reschedule.

Letter 'P' Fun

We were happy to welcome Ellie to preschool today making us a class of 7!

You can tell Kristinah is happy to have another girl in the class!-

Today we popped popcorn for the letter P-

We read books about pumpkins and learned all the things you can do with it:
-eat seeds
-make pumpkin pie
-paint it
-carve it
-use the seeds to grow more pumpkins.
we got to have some pumpkin pie for snack-


painting the pumpkin-

we also took out handfuls of the pumpkin pulp and came up with some descriptive words to describe it. And we talked about different faces you can put on a pumpkin and drew our own happy, mad and scared faces.

A few other things we did today was trace our squares and letter P as well as recall events that happened in our story and cross out ones that didn't.

Then Show and Tell was great to strengthen our knowledge of things that start with P. Everyone was very creative, we had: pencil, pomegranate seeds, Percy the train, a puppy, a pony, piglet, a picture, a pillow, and a puzzle!

And of course we couldn't pass up playing outside in this beautiful weather!-

November Snack Schedule

Nov. 2 -Garen
Nov. 4 -Zach
Nov. 9 -Carter
Nov. 11-Max
Nov. 16-Alex
Nov. 18-Eliza
Nov. 30-Kristinah

November Show and Tell

Nov. 2 - something that starts with the letter 'P'

Nov. 9 - something Brown (wear brown this week)

Nov. 16 -something you are thankful for

Nov. 23 - No Preschool

Nov. 30 - something Blue (wear blue this week)