Ms. Gretchen's 3 year olds

What a fun time we have had the last month in the ocean room. We started the month off with learning how to keep our teeth healthy, we brushed and counted teeth and learned all about good foods that keep our bodies and teeth strong and healthy.

We have been working on our handwriting everyday and writing our names. We have been using our lines and cures to create different letters and words. The kids love the zoo-phonics and enjoy using the cards to try to spell their names during free time. It has been fun to watch them create and sound out words.

We have been working hard on our Christmas songs for our annual Christmas program and I know we will sound wonderful!

We finished the month with a fun thanksgiving feast.  We learned all about the pilgrims and about the different foods we ate at our feast. 

We hope you had a

Happy Thanksgiving! 

We did!  

MWF Thanksgiving Feast

Our circle time was spent talking about what we are thankful for, and reading a book about Courderoy's Thanksgiving (a little Teddy Bear).  Some of the kids are thankful for kitties, some for their Halloween costumes (I remember one said Firefighter clothes and another said Spiderman).  Most were thankful for treats and candy when I suggested those and everybody shouted "yes!" when I suggested Moms and Dads!



TTh Thanksgiving Feast

We had a lot of fun with Ms. Sherrie in Singing Time singing about Tom the Turkey and practicing our numbers and colors and also rehearsing for our Christmas Program.




TTh Singing Time

I am thankful for beautiful, sweet, entertaining kids that I get to see every week, who teach me so much and who are so fun to watch learning and changing and discovering new things.  They are constantly surprising me by how much they know, and how quick they pick things up.

 

 

We are doing great learning to create our letters using our Handwriting Without Tears big and little lines. L was our first letter.

Tooth brushing! We loved learned all about our teeth. We had some giant teeth from a dental lab which we were able to brush to a sparkling shine.

We love using all different types of media. We created teeth with our minty play-doh.

Floam is one of our favorite things to use. I think maybe more ended up on the bottom of our shoes than in our sculptures!

Ms. Dessie's PreK Classes Keep on Learning

The last few months in Ms. Dessie's classes have brought some new and exciting learning opportunities.  We have had visits from firemen and a dentist, teaching us how to be safe and healthy.  We have been able to have a field trip to a grocery store and do some "shopping."  At the Fry's grocery store we even got to go in back and see the deep freeze section, pet a lobster, sample some foods and our favorite...using the scanner to check out our items, just like a grown-up!  Thank you Fry's!  

We have been sampling some interesting foods lately.  Green eggs and ham for G week was a surprise because most students liked them.  The big hit though in the food area was the homemade ice cream we made in the bag.  We shook and  shook the ingredients until we had our frozen treat.  YUM! We have also sampled grapes, and jams.  We love to graph our results and talk about words like most, least, fewer and favorite.

In handwriting, we have completed learning all our capital letters that start at the corner and are on to finishing up the alphabet.   Once the capitals are conquered then it is on to the lower case letters. We have also learned how to write our numbers 1-9 now!  Most exciting is to see students be able to start sounding out CVC words.  I like to  remind the students that they are really reading and they love to figure out all the sounds in the words.   We are getting so ready for Kindergarten and we love it!

Tasting Green Eggs and Ham for G Week.  Most of the kids tried them and would eat them again!

Getting to pet a real lobster at our Fry's Field trip.

Learning about how to take care of our teeth...brush, brush, brush!

Using the scanner to check out our items at Fry's.

"Shopping" at Fry's.

Feeling very grown-up when checking out.

It's time for the FALL FESTIVAL!

Ms Gillian's PM 3's

We have had such a fun couple of weeks learning all about Pumpkins!  In Science and math we were weighing, sorting, comparing and counting pumpkins and seeds.  The kiddos loved digging out all the seeds from our pumpkins but the favorite with almost everyone was hammering the tees into them!

They also loved playing with our pumpkin pie scented play dough which smelt delish - all sorts of wonderful creations were being made out of it!
 The kiddos also got the chance to taste roasted pumpkin seeds and pumpkin muffins - they went down a treat :)










Today we had a fun time at our class Halloween party was just adorable seeing all the kiddos come into school in their cute little costumes.  We started our party with some singing and dancing to songs such as 5 little pumpkins and the skeleton dance... We then got our hands dirty making the cutest little pumpkin craft. Trick or treating with our friends was next which the kiddos had a blast with. Then we finished our fun day by making super yummy spider treats. All in all we had a great afternoon full of fun and laughter just how we love it in the forest room :)

 










Now looking forward to our Fall Festival next Friday (November 8th) - it is going to be awesome can't wait to see you all there :)

Miss Wandy's Afternoon 2's Class in the Farm Room

                                       
                                       The kids love to have free time and play with each other.

                         In the Farm room we enjoy learning about colors and letters while having fun.