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