Friday, November 29, 2013

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.

Tuesday, November 26, 2013

 
 
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!

Thursday, November 14, 2013

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.

Wednesday, October 30, 2013

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 :)

Monday, October 28, 2013

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.

Sunday, October 20, 2013

Welcome Back!!!

I hope that everyone had a great Fall Break and is ready to rock and roll!  We had such a great start of school this year!  Here are a few highlights:
Learning our HWT wood pieces


Aprons are for A!

Flying Paper Airplanes

Landing Airplanes in their Hangers

Listening Ears

Miss Kylie as a Fire Fighter!


All about our Names!

D is for Dinosaur!



 We've had super fun so far!  We have also had great celebrations such as Grandparent's Day and Donuts for Dads!  Check out how much fun we had!






Yay for our Grandparents and our Dads!  Thanks for spending some of our preschool day with us! 
We are ready to jump into our next quarter, starting off with a field trip to Fry's Grocery Store!  We can't wait to spend our G week learning about all the healthy things we can buy at the grocery store.  We also have Halloween, the Fall Festival and our Christmas Program coming up fast!  Can't wait to begin the ride!