December 17th-21st

Sorry this post took so long to get up, but it has been a crazy Christmas break around here.  Here are a few highlights from our All About Christmas Week.
-We celebrated Mr. M's birthday.  Happy Birthday!
-We read "Look Who's Knocking on Christmas Eve", "The Littlest Elf", and "The New Improved Santa".
-We made Christmas Tree Ornaments from Popsicle Sticks.
-We made Rudolph the Red Nose Reindeer Ornaments from our handprints.
-We made Reindeer Treats with glitter, oats and sprinkles.
-We played a ABC matching game with spoons.  We matched the lowercase (Clear spoons) to the uppercase (white spoons).
-We made our salt dough handprints.
-We painted our hand prints.
-We made our candy cane christmas cards with our finger prints.
-We wrapped our hand prints with our cards for our Moms and Dads.
-We watched the old version of Frosty the snowman.
-We had delicious snacks like, cheese bunnie crackers, santa hat brownies, santa hat pretzels, animal crackers, cuties (little oranges), lots of little oranges. Thanks Miss Heidi, Mr. M and Mr. M.  ha ha

It was such a super fun week.  Thank you all for the great Christmas Presents shared with me, I hope the kids liked their socks.  I hope you all have had a very Merry Christmas and will have a very special New Year's.  I will see you all on Wednesday January 2nd, 2013!

 

Sincerely,

Miss Heidi



December 10th-14th

 

MONDAY

 -We learned the letter J, its sound, uppercase/lowercase and all things letter J.

-We checked out letter J on starfall.com





 

 

-For our science experiment we put snow in a clear jar.  We talked about how we like to eat snow and we think it is so clean and ok to eat.  We also talked about what the snow was going to turn into inside the house.  

WEDNESDAY

-We made our handprint letter J alphabet page.



-It was also our Pajama Polar Express Party.

-We made homemade hot cocoa with marshmallows. 

-We had sugar cookies with frosting and sprinkles. 

-We had our blankets and pillows and watched the movie the "Polar Express". 

-We made popcorn.  It was so much fun having a pajama party!

 

 

-We read "Get Well Santa", and it took us two days to read "The Polar Express".





 

-Here are the results from our experiment.  Snow turns into water and the snow/water is not clean.  We definitely didn't want to drink it for snack.  

 

-We made beautiful Christmas Wreaths.  We painted them, tied a pretty bow and glued it on.  Then we glued our little hearts out trying to get our pom poms to stick.

 

-It was a super fun week.  We had awesome snacks, learned all about the letter J and had a fun pajama party.  Next week is just a fun week.  We will celebrate Mr. M's birthday, have our Christmas Party, make presents for our Moms and Dads and read Christmas stories.  See you all next week, have a great weekend filled with family and friends.

Tis the Season,

Miss Heidi



December 3rd-7th

 

Monday

-We Learned about letter I, its sound, uppercase and lowercase and all things that begin with "I".

-We read "The Alphabet Adventure".



-We made a Santa Claus Countdown for Christmas. How many days until Santa comes?

Wednesday

-We made our letter I alphabet page.  I is for Icecream. 

-We decorated a tree for our preschool! I think it turned out awesome.  I did have to move a few ornaments around.  I should have taken a picture of all the ornaments on the bottom 6 inches of the tree and all in the same place.  We decorated one 12 inch circle basically.  I did a little rearranging.

Friday

-We read the "Gingerbread House".

-We made a Gingerbread boy and girl.  The lacing part was tricky and the kids told me it was too hard.  So keep practicing those fine motor skills.  Untie the yarn and have them lace it up again, just for practice.

-We also made our gingerbread boy and girl a christmas tree.  These were so fun to make and watch the kids licking and spreading the frosting.  

 

-These are the books we read this week.

-We also went on a fieldtrip to Dicks Market in Centerville.  It was fun just to get out of preschool for a little bit and check out a store/jobs in our city.  Thanks to all the moms who came and helped.

-We had some fabulous snacks this week too; 3 kinds of crackers and juice, icecream and mini nilla wafers, and granola bars with crackers.  Thanks for always bringing us such great snacks. 

 

 

Next week is all about the letter J and The Polar Express.  On Wednesday, we will have a Polar Express Pajama Party where we will watch the movie, eat, play, craft and make homemade hot cocoa.  So come dressed in your pj's on Wednesday-I know I will!

 

See you all then,

Miss Heidi

November 26th- 30th

 



I just realized that I forgot to post about our Thanksgiving Feast.  My apologies, that was a crazy weekend around here.  So here is some info about our party in a tiny little nutshell.  We played with our friends and our toys.  We then had circle time.  We went on a turkey hunt and found 10 turkeys hiding in Miss Heidi's house.  We make a turkey with our feet, some paint and some paper feathers and googly eyes, of course.  We also matched lowercase letters to uppercase letters on turkeys with feathers.  We read the book " 10 Fat Turkeys".  We dressed up as pilgrim boys and girls and ate our wonderful feast-turkey, mashed potatoes, rolls, jello, carrots and dip, crackers and cheese, oranges.  We had a turkeyrific time!

This past week here at school was all about the letter H, its sound, how to write it, recognize it, uppercase and lowercase and all things that begin with the letter H.  Oh, and all about Hearts.  So what did we do....?
-We made heart sugar cookies, frosting and decorated them and then we ate them....Yum!
-We read 3 stories: "Rudolph the Red Nose Reindeer",  "Hand, Hand, Fingers, Thumb", and "The Hat". 
-We made a Rudolph the Red Nose Reindeer to display in our classroom during the month of December.
-We made 2 candy canes, glued them together to make a heart and then painted them by rolling marbles through some red paint and all over our heart.  It's called Marble painting.
-We made our letter H poster, H is for; Hippo, Hat, Heart, Hand, Horse, Hamburger.....
-We checked out the Letter H on starfall.com, your children love this site.  Check it out!
-We made our alphabet page, H is for Hippo.
-We sang songs about the letter H, hearts, November, and Rudolph.
-We had delicious snacks like, sugar cookies and milk, Ho Ho's and bananas, animal crackers and juice.
- We traced Hearts with Markers.  Have you noticed how much better our tracing has gotten.  We are going to start learning how to trace and write our names at the beginning of the year. Yeah!
Our week, was, well, fun, fun, fun!

Next week, is all about the letter I and diamonds.  I know that Novembers calendar said we learned about diamonds, but we didnt-that week was crazy busy and we are just now getting around to learning about diamonds and it will wrap up our shape unit. 

Also this coming week, we will be taking a field trip to Dicks Market in Centerville on Parrish Lane on Wednesday.  Our field trip starts at 10:00 a.m., so if you would like to come, please meet at the preschool at 9:50 a.m., we will load up and drive over.  It will only last between 30-45 minutes, so we will come back to preschool afterwards and finish up our day.  All parents are invited, if you cant make it, I can drive them in my car-just leave my their carseat please. 

By the way, we have a new student joining us this week, so our class size is now 7.  Heads up on that for when you send snack.  We are excited to have him join our class. 

Thanks for all you do, thanks for sharing your children with me.  I feel blessed to be able to do what I do.  I hope they are enjoying themselves as much as I am.  Sincerely, Miss Heidi

November 12th-16th

 

So let's see, this week was all about the Lette G (its sound, how to write it, uppercase and lowercase), Pilgrims & Indians and the STAR shape .  Next week, is our Thanksgiving Feast on Monday. 

 

 

This Week....

 

* We made our letter G poster, sang its song and learned its sound.

* We read "Giraffes Cant Dance", "Native Americans A-Z" and "The very first Thanksgiving Day".

* We made ice cream cone/cupcake Indian Teepees and Marshmallow Pilgrim Hats.

* We made our Letter G alphabet page, G is for Giraffe.

* We had some delicious snacks, Indian teepees and pilgrim hats, apple slices and caramel with crackers and cheese and fruit snacks with, cannot think of it to save my life right now, Ill remember it in just a minute.

* We made Indian headdresses.  These tooks us awhile.  We had to cut feathers, glue our name, string beads and decorate them with stars. 

* We sang songs about pilgrims, indians, stars and the letter G.

* We traced star shapes, found star shapes and played musical star.

* We also made a Thankful Tree and talked about all the things we are thankful for.  We are mostly thankful for our families and warm houses to live in.

 

 

See you all for our Thanksgiving Feast!  Hope you all have a great Thanksgiving Weekend.  I am so thankful for your children, for the opportunity I have to teach them and spend my mornings with them. I am also so thankful for you parents.  I love my job! 

                                        Sincerely,

                                                        Miss Heidi

November 7th-9th

 

 

This week was all about the letter Ff, its sound and how to write it.  The letter F is for Fall, Frog, Fireworks, Flamingos, Football, Five and on and on. 

 

*We read two books about Fall

* We made a Letter F poster

*We made a Fall Tree by painting with Q-tips.

*We made a sparkly explosion "Fireworks" with baking soda, vinegar, glitter and food coloring.

*We made our abc book page, F is for Flamingo

*We made a fall snack popcorn mix with popcorn, fishes, candy corn, m&m's, pretzels and white chocolate.

*We hade yummy snacks=Fruit strips and bunny graham crackers, thanks Mr. J.  And orange pumpkins with nutter butter/kisses acrons, thanks Mr. L.



It was a short week jam packed with letter F activities.  Thanks for yet another great week here at preschool.  Next week is all about the letter G. See you reall soon and have a great weekend playing in the snow!                                   

Love, Miss Heidi

October 29th- November 2nd

 

So it was a scary spooktacular Halloween Week at Preschool!  Here are some highlights of our pumpkin day and our Halloween Party. 

On Monday-

* We read "Plumpily, Dumpily Pumpkin".

* We made Pumpkin Chocolate Chip Cookies and ate them for our snack.

* We carved a pumpkin and made a class book about it.  We weighed our pumpkin, measured our pumpkin, counted the seeds of our pumpkin and lots more. 

* We also made paper plate Jack-o-lanterns.

 

On Wednesday it was our Halloween Party and boy did we PARTY!

*We played

*We had circletime

*We played pin the nose on "JACK"!

*We had snack=frankenstein pudding, string cheese witches brooms, reese peanut butter cup withces brooms, pretzel spider webs and orange pumpkin Fanta to drink.

*Then we read "Big Pumpkin", Miss Heidi's Favorite Halloween Story.

*We played collect the ghosts on the spider web.

*We made Bats with our Hands

*And we played ghost bowling.

*We also had time to sing some Halloween songs

*Plus, we made our way outside for our parade and trunk or treat!

-We all looked so spectacular in our costumes!

 

On Friday,

*We played

* We had snack-string cheese, grapes, club crackers and oreo's.

*We read "Let's Go on a Leaf Hunt".

*We made very colorful leaves for our bulletin boards in class.

*We went for a Leaf Hunt and collected leaves, we also found acorns and looked for signs of fall.

*We then put our leaves on a big tree in the preschool.  We were decorating, you know!

*We played a shape game and put up the vinyl leaves on the front door.

-Then it was time to go!

 

Hope you all had a great weekend.  November calendars will be ready on Wednesday when I see you all again.  This coming week is all about Fall, the Letter Ff, writing it and its sound.  Thanks for all of your help with our Halloween Party-it was one of the best parties so far!

 

-Miss Heidi