Having fun in Ms. Monica's 3 Year Old Class

We had a wonderful time with our letter W and wiggly worms. We each got to take some home to put into the soil around our flowers and plants.

This past week our focus was seeds and flowers. We learned how a seed becomes a flower. We discovered the many parts of a flower and what each part does to help the flower grow.  This is our class flower shop. They made wonderful floral creations and sold them for the affordable price of one hug or magically invisible money. They were so creative!

Caterpillars to Butterflies unit. We learned all about Metamorphosis. The children were caterpillars that munched their way around the classroom. Here they are wrapped up in their chrysalis' waiting to become butterflies. Our little friend to the left is just emerging and getting his wings to work. 

The butterflies flew around the classroom to find flowers and get a sip of nectar.

We had an EGGciting Easter week. We did several experiements with eggs and did our own Easter eggs dying pr

ojects. When we got ready for our class Easter egg hunt. We practiced counting to six and each of the children took 6 eggs to hide. I explained that they should put each egg in a different spot in the classroom. I gave them many ideas of places that would be great "hiding spots."  I turned them loose to do their hiding magic and this is Easter egg hiding 3 to 4 year old style. Can you find any eggs???

Radar, our class pet, continues to be a special part of our class. The children look forward to feeding him fresh hay everyday and keeping him stocked with plenty of water. He happily squeeks and interacts with each child.  When we did our unit on vegetables they shared some carrots and celery with him. They have become a very responsible class.

We are Having a BLAST in Pre-K!!

    We are really close to finishing up our Preschool year!  With only a few weeks left, we are having a blast finishing up our Alphabet Stars of the Week!  
     After Spring break, we enjoyed a week of Easter Celebrations!  We found Easter Eggs and graphed them, used shaving cream and food coloring to swirl our eggs, and made bunnies out of envelopes!  We really enjoyed that week! 

Shaving Cream Swirl Eggs!!!

     After Easter, we found Umber Umbrella, (which is actually a real bird...we watched a video of it in action!) and worked on many Uu words!  Umbrellas,  underground, up, uniforms and many other words were discussed and then "played" with during centers!  They also loved talking about Uu's different sounds...long and short!  Our Show-n-Tell was amazing!!  

Show - n -Tell Uu!  Amazing!

      We have also finished up Ww - Willie Weasel - and loved playing and petting our pet worms in our sensory tub!  I was so proud that many of them were so very brave to touch the worms!  We watched them like scientists, observing and recording them.  We also explored watermelons and even got to plant our own to take home and watch grow!  The last couple of weeks have been so much fun!  I love being a part of their learning!  

Worms!

Worms!

And More Worms!

Summer School Registration is going on now!

We are soooooo ready for Kindergarten!

Lunch at the Zoo!

       Well, I can't believe that we are only a quarter away from my students graduating preschool and moving on to Kindergarten!  It makes me so happy, yet so sad to see them leave me!  I have seen such great things from these students over the past few months when I've been able to be their teacher.  The skills that they've gained and the learning that has taken place has been crazy awesome!  I love teaching this age because you can see their growth each and every day.  It's amazing!  I have the best job in the world!
      A few things we have done over the past few weeks  have involved our "Stars of the Week" and a great field trip to the zoo!  That was a lot of fun seeing these kids absorbing all they see at the zoo.  The weather was perfect and the animals were out, loving the sunshine!  What a fabulous field trip!!!
       We have been busy working on our last few letters of the alphabet and one of my favorite weeks was Timothy Tiger's week.  We actually had him visit our classroom and teach us all sorts of words that begin with his letter.  We sang his favorite number songs (2 & 10) and he even danced a little.  We painted with tire tracks, brushed vampire teeth with toothbrushes and "toothpaste", decorated spring trees with popcorn as blossoms, and had a monster truck race game!  All of these hands-on activities are making concrete connections to these preschooler's brains, not just for the letter name and sounds, but also for critical thinking, fine & large motor, and social skills as well.  This is the best age for these kiddos to explore and absorb all the things they see, feel and hear each day!

Timothy Tiger Visits!

Tire Track Art

Dr. Welch teaching us how to take care of our Teeth!

We had Dr. Welch come for a visit during our Timothy Tiger Week and taught us about our teeth.  He is a pediatric dentist and was so great with the kids.  They just loved him to pieces!  He taught them the good and bad things to eat and do for our teeth.  What a fun day!  Thank you Dr. Welch!!!

Having fun in the forest room with Miss Nelay!

We have been very busy in the two year old classroom, we have learned color magic by mixing two colors together to make the colors pink, purple and orange.  All of the preschoolers enjoyed getting to mix the colors and watch it change into the magic color.

We also have been doing a "cooking show" where I set up a demonstration table and all the preschoolers sit in the audience to watch me make a fun recipe.  All of the preschoolers have loved watching and getting to try all of the yummy treats we have made.  We have made birds nest, pineapple frozen yogurt and quesodillas.

Ms. Gillian's PM 3s

 
What a busy few weeks we have had!
Having lots and lots of fun  - that's what we do best in our 3 year old room have fun, fun, fun :)



A couple of weeks ago we celebrated Valentines Day -  The kiddos had a blast making all sorts of love hearts - from gluing, painting, stamping, sorting, counting them!  Each child brought in a treat for their friends, and they just loved handing them out at circle time, was so cute to see all their little faces light up as their baskets filled up :)  The preschoolers finished off their Valentines week enjoying the yummy cookies they had decorated!

We moved onto our  'Opposites' unit the following week.  We started off the week with our black and white gluing.  We also used rough and smooth paint to make finger painting master pieces!  As well as using big and small circles to make fun prints!  The kiddos had the best time on our mini obstacle course but the favorite this week was our opposite music and movement time – where we were going fast/slow, high/low, loud/quiet, in/out….. They wanted to do it over and over again!




We also had Puterbugs computer class come into our classroom and all the children took part in a trial class of computers.  This went down a treat the kiddos loved playing around on the computers and were learning as they played!

We finished off this week having the best time at our annual school wide field trip to Phoenix Zoo.  All the kiddos had a fab time seeing all the animals with their friends, while enjoying our wonderful spring weather :). 

 

 

COUPLE OF PHOTOS BELOW OF SOME OF OUR PRESCHOOLERS HAVING FUN TIMES AT SCHOOL

 

 

We are Rockin' this Preschool Year!!!

    It's been an awesome few weeks here at the Pre-K AM class!  We have been working very hard on our Alphabet and their coordinating Zoophonics Animals!  We really try and base our hand-on centers on these letters, making concrete connections to them as well as developing fine motor skills.  Here are some of the things that we have been busy doing for these special stars!

Make your own Pizza Playdoh!

Playing The Three Little Pigs! Ms. Kylie played the wolf for one of our plays!

Here's more Little Pigs!

Our Wolf trying to blow down the brick house!

Under our Quilt fort!!!

Cozy up during Circle time with Cozy Quilts!

Painting with Vegetables for Vv week!  (Vv is out of order, but what can be better than Vv during Valentine's Day Week!!!)

              As you can see, we are busy doing many, many hands on activities that help our beautiful brains grow and learn!  We recently had Parent/Teacher conferences and I enjoyed visiting with all the parents!  We have seen so much growth during the past few months that's its absolutely amazing!  With summer around the corner, I've been thinking about how much I'm gonna miss all the students in my class as they head off to Kindergarten!  They will have a great time, but I will truly miss them!  All of my parents should be so proud of their accomplishments this year!!!