Shadows and Groundhogs

This week we made all kinds of groundhogs and shadows. The kids loved exploring outside and finding their shadows. This week we also covered the letter C and the color purple as well as some rhyming.
Finding some shadows-

working on purple-

The Napping School

This week we did The Napping House. The kids had a wonderful time acting the story out and telling me who naps in their families. Ask your child to retell you the story with the sleeping characters they brought home today.
This week we also worked on the color grey, the letter E, biggest to smallest, made giant rainbows because in the story it rains the whole time and ends with a beautiful rainbow, and made a class book called the napping school-the pictures are for our book-

Hats! Plus tons of Pictures...

Wednesday we had a guest teacher with us-my mom-hence all the pictures. We had a great time making hats, painting hats, making stop signs to learn octagons, and learning the letter V. I know there are tons of pictures so you can just skip through them and look at your own kids. :) Enjoy! And see everyone on Monday.

Dinosaurs!

First of all we got to welcome a new friend this week: Grace! We are so glad she joined our class!

This week we focused on dinosaurs and we had a lot of fun with it. Some of the kids' favorites were:
-The volcano
-Dinosaur bingo
-digging for dinosaurs in the sand and carefully brushing the sand a way to find the dinosaur like an archaeologist does.
-seeing all of Max's robot Dinosaurs he brought to share.
-Singing songs with the finger puppets they made.
-Dinosaur stories
-acting like dinosaurs as we marched around on the giant dinosaur footprints (and practicing the numbers written on them).
-we colored, cut, and glued many other kinds of dinosaur projects.
-We also worked on the letter A and the color brown.

It was a wonderful week and the kids worked hard and had lots of fun!

Penguins

This week we have been learning about penguins:
-We read '5 little penguins slipping on the ice', '365 penguins', and 'Tacky the Penguin.'
-The kids loved feeding the big open mouthed penguin when they could name the letter on it's tummy.
-We made penguin puppets
-Learned the letter Y
-Talked about and drew the shape-moon/crescent
-We painted with paint ice cubes.
-We had game time today with Whack-a-Mole and Perfection. That kids loved playing the games!!!
-We also worked on opposites this week and I was impressed how quickly they picked the concept up!
The kids are just way to much fun and I love hearing their excitement for learning and the funny things they have say!

Jan. Show & Tell

Jan. 4 - Something that starts with Y
Jan. 11 - Something brown/ kids are also welcome to bring different types of Dinosaurs this week.
Jan. 17 - a favorite hat
Jan. 25 - something gray

January Snacks

Jan. 4 - Kristinah

Jan. 6 - Max

Jan. 11 - Garen

Jan. 13 - Zach

Jan. 18 - No School

Jan. 20 - Carter

Jan. 25 - Ellie

Jan. 27 - Alex