Pre-K in the West with Ms. Laura & Ms. Emmalee!

Last week on the Ranch, the focus was on the letter W and B. The children made tissue paper bananas and letter B bees.

 

The highlight was our worm observation center. It was interesting to watch how different their reactions were. Some of the kids took no time picking them up and others didn't want to touch them at all.

Ms. Laura's favorite was the wishing well activity. The children were asked to pick any wish they desired and we helped them spell it out on their papers. Answers included watermelon, candy houses and pet spiders.

 

 I just love the simplicity and sweetness of these kids!

 

Ms. Riki's class is kicking off the New Year 2015 with fun & learning!!

Ms. Riki's MWF & T/TH class is having fun & learning in the new year with Ms. Tasha and Ms. Kinsey!!

MWF class exploring food that starts with letter B during our science center!

MWF class made butter during our science center!

My T/TH class creating elephant hand print art during our art center!

Having fun while exploring our taste buds during science centers!

We are having fun and learning to work together during open free time!

Look what we can build together!

We are learning our math and having fun! We did it!

We love to explore and learn during our science centers!

T/TH class watching  and learning through our experiments!

MWF class creating masterpieces during our art centers

 Learning our math during free play time!

 We are learning about shells in our sensory bin in free time!

 We say the pledge of allegiance during opening circle time.

 We talk about our letters of the week in our opening circle time! Show me your shoes! Discussing the Sh sounds and coming up with words staring with Sh.

T/TH class working hard during our centers that focus on language arts, math, science and art.

 T/TH class learning about music and having fun with our music teacher Ms. Kim!!

T/TH class creating art focusing on our letters of the week!!

MWF class having fun and learning about music with Ms. Kim!!

MWF class waiting to see which volcano will erupt during our science center!

MWF class working hard and having fun during our math and language arts centers!!

We are at our half way point for the school year!! Pre-K has flown by this year!!  We start off our day with some free play time then move into opening circle time and pledge of allegiance. Students pick their jobs for the day and we go over our calendar and learn our days of the week and talk about our letters of the week.  We learn our letters through Zoo Phonics and Handwriting Without Tears.

I am so proud of my Pre-K classes and have enjoyed watching my students grow and learn!!

Ms. Riki

What's Been Happening In the Forest Room??? Ms. Debbie's Class

Ms. Debbie's MWF PM Class - 3 Year Olds

Here are some pictures from our Thanksgiving Feast.  Look at all of our cute Pilgrims!  The t-shirts they made were so cute and the hats complete the outfit and are perfect for the celebration of being thankful.  As we sat at the table and ate our feast, we talked about all the things we were thankful for and we discussed the reason we celebrate Thanksgiving.  

Our tables were decorated with orange tablecloths and small decorative pumpkins in the middle.  The children used their turkey Thanksgiving placemats they made in class. 

During circle time, we practice making the letter of the week. Here we are making the letter "J" with our wood pieces.  This is a great way to help the children learn how to form the letters. They really love using the wood pieces and they are very proud of themselves when they make the letter on their own. 
  

We had a dentist come visit us and they had a lot of fun, hands-on activities for the children to participate in to help teach them how important it is to take care of their teeth.  They did a great job of making sure their visit was kid-friendly and the kids loved it!

         

During our color/shape week, we played with colored shaving cream and made a rainbow.  The children had to pick the right color items and glue it on our big rainbow hanging on the wall.  They also used star stickers to stick around an outline of a shape.  This project helps with their fine motor skill and learning their shapes as well. 

                                   
                 Handwriting practice........everyday!

It's Christmas time!!! 

 Here are some fun pictures of what we did before

 we went on Christmas break.  

This is slime but it is made out of Insta-Sno.  It is really cool and the kids loved playing with it. 

We made this Christmas tree out of paper plates.  The children took a big round magnetic ball with a few squirts of blue and yellow paint on the plate and held a magnetic wand underneath the plate and moved it around in a circle until the colors mixed well enough to make it green.  This was a science lesson and an art project all in one.  The kids thought this was very cool!  We were pretty proud of our Forest Room Christmas tree!    

Story time with Ms. Theresa.  After Ms. Theresa read a fun Christmas story, we let the children decorate sugar cookies and drink hot cocoa with whipped cream and marshmallows.  YUM!!

 Music with Ms. Kim and making drums with plastic cups.  

It's always a pleasure to work with these kids.  

Ms. Theresa and I have a lot of fun with them! 

 Hope you enjoyed the pictures.

Love,

 Ms. Debbie and Ms. Theresa