Welcome Back!

 Here in the Jungle Room AM we are diving straight in to learning!  We are doing many things each week.  Each week consists of 5 different learning, hand-on activities at each center: Art, Science, Language Arts and Math.  Each center is fun, but also enhances past and new skills that these students will need next year in Kindergarten!  Each lesson approaches their learning by way of experiences.  I feel that learning is done best when actually experiencing all the senses of the activity!  For example, for I week we did a lot of hand-on, experience related learning.  Below you will see them observing and drawing Insects (crickets!!)  They were even lucky enough to be able to bring one home as a pet! (sorry parents...)

 Here we are making ice cream by adding ingredients, ice and then SHAKING!!!  They all got a chance to shake some ice cream.  Then came the good part...

 

 EATING IT!  It was actually very good!

For Jj week we squeezed and poked and smashed fruits to make our very own JUICE!

We also made Drippy Jellyfish by loading our paper with lots of watercolor on the "bell" of the jellyfish, then lifting it up to make the tentacles!   We experimented with how much watercolors we needed to make it drip...what happened when it didn't drip down...what happened when we added more watercolors to the top...how the color changed when we added a different color.  All of these questions led to more fun finding out!!!

 Thanksgiving was so much fun! We came up with so many things that we were thankful for! 

 Our Christmas Celebration was really fun too!  It was Pajama Day and we all did fun activities in our Jammies!  We couldn't ask for a better time!

Mrs. Nettie's Pre-K Afternoon Class

Welcome to the greatest time of the year! We started the holiday season off with a fun Halloween party and lots of fun crafts to celebrate the festive day. Soon to follow was a Thanksgiving feast along with taste testing the popular pies that show up on Turkey Day ...... apple and pumpkin pie. The children enjoyed a graph to show which pie was the most liked.  A few students tasted a slice of pumpkin pie for the first time and loved the flavors of the season. We are currently preparing for Christmas and it surely is a Jolly time of year!

Halloween in Mrs. Nettie's Classroom

Thanksgiving is here!

Ice Cream cupcakes to celebrate the letter "I"

Sampling Kiwi for letter "K"

Fun learning at our Centers!

Hot Chocolate treat on a cold rainy Friday afternoon!

Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!!

Love,

Mrs. Nettie and Mrs. Lisa

Ms. Laree's MWF AM 3's

We had a fantastic time last week talking all about winter.   We talked about how to keep warm in the winter, fun things to do in winter and all about winter animals. 

 In Art we did ice painting (painted with colored ice), we had frozen treasures in ice where we had to melt the ice to get them out.  We used shapes to make a snowman and then used bubble wrap to paint snow over the top.  We made penguins and hung those outside the classroom.  We drew winter scenes in crayon and then painted them with Epsom salt to make the picture look icy.  We also made snowmen out of play-doh.

 

In Math with counted snowballs into mittens, we counted marshmallows in hot cocoa (oh how they wanted to eat the marshmallows while gluing and counting – so I gave them a few at snack time!) and we cut out snowflakes.

 

In Handwriting Without Tears we worked on the letter “O” and the #6.  We also reviewed the following letters and practiced writing them on white boards: L F E T H C U O.  I was amazed at how well they were able to write these letters.  I am very proud of my class!!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

In Science we talked about hot and cold.  We tasted hot cocoa and shaved ice.  One of the favorite activities was ice-skating in our socks on the floor and then our icy snowstorm.  We put on scarfs and gloves and then I showered the kiddos with shaved ice.  We had so much fun – it was as if it were snowing in our classroom!! That was my favorite activity of the week!!

 

 

We read several books on winter and snow and played one of their favorite songs “The Little Snowflake”. 

Thank you again for allowing me the pleasure of teaching your children and you are fabulous parents as well!

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.