Thanksgiving Week November 25th-27th

Here are a few fun things we did during our fun Thanksgiving Week:
* made thankful turkeys
*watched "A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving"
*took pictures with cute Thanksgiving photo props
*made turkey cookies
*read "The Night Before Thanksgiving
*had a Thanksgiving Feast with-turkey, mashed potatoes, carrots, string cheese, crackers, almonds, mandarin oranges, pumpkin pie, rolls, apples, peaches and pretzels.
*played turkey, turkey, ..gobble.  (duck, duck, goose)
*played pin the feather on the turkey
*sang all of our color songs

It was such a fun week from and a good break from our normal routine.  However, this coming week is back to normal.  We will be learning the letter Jj, its sound, song, uppercase and lowercase, the color gray and getting ready for Christmas. A huge thank you to everyone who brought a snack for our feast and to the moms who helped me serve it.  I think it was a success!

See you all tomorrow, 

Miss Heidi

Letter I Week 18th-22nd

Letter I Week/Native Americans (Indians) & The Color Black

Alphabet Pages on Monday

 Write Letter I on Wednesday

 Make Homemade Ice Cream for food experience on Wednesday

 Indian Feather Headdress on Friday

 The color black page on Friday

 Books we read this week.

-We learned the letter I (uppercase and lowercase)
-We learned letter I's sound (there are 2)
-We learned letter I in sign language
-We learned the color black and a song
-We made homemade ice cream
-We read stories
-We had wonderful snacks-string cheese, gogurts, ice cream sandwiches, apple juice, kool-aid, whoppers and frosted animal crackers.
-We went for a walk and talked about signs of Fall
-We danced
-We made Indian Headdresses
-We sang one little, two little, three little Indians
-We had another fantastical week!

Next week is all about Thanksgiving.  Tomorrow is our Thanksgiving Feast-where we eat a yummy Thanksgiving lunch!  And then Wednesday will be another fun easy going day full of Thanksgiving Celebration! Thank you, Thank you, Thank you for sharing your beautiful, smart, children with me.  

I love them. 

-Miss Heidi

Letter G Week 7 Letter H Week

Letter G Week & Letter H Week

Letter G alphabet page uppercase

 and lowercase.

 Letter H alphabet page uppercase

 and lowercase

 Letter G handwriting paper

 Letter H handwriting paper

 Letter G food experience; Bake and decorate Gingerbread Men Cookies.

 Letter H food experience; Dip marshmallows in melted chocolate and make Pilgrim Hats.

 Letter G hiding game; Letter G is for Giraffe, granola, glue, glasses, goat, green, graduation cap, grapes, glitter, ghost and Gingerbread Man.

Letter H hiding game.  Letter H is for heart, helicopter, horse, happy, hanger, hammer, hand, hat, hen and harmonica. 

 Find the Gingerbread Man game.

 Lace a Gingerbread Man.  This skill is so tricky. You can undo the yarn and have them practice lacing for extra fine motor skill practice.

 These are the stories we read during Letter G week.

 And these are the stories we read during Letter H week.

 We also....

... learned the color white 

.....and the color brown.

Sang lots of songs.

Had snacks like-grapes, goldfish, honeydew, fruit snacks, graham crackers, capri suns, and pomegranate.

we gave Mr. G a cheer since his name starts with letter G.

we gave Miss Heidi a cheer since her name starts with letter H.

We had a funny discussion last week during snack time about how old the children think their parents are.  Many of them guessed that you are all 100 years old, and some of you would be very pleased to hear how young they think you are....28.  Some of you are that young...hurray! It was funny.

Next week is the letter I, the color black and Indians (Native Americans-but Indians start with I).  

Thanks for another few weeks of awesomeness, 

Miss Heidi

Halloween Week

Halloween Week

Painted Candy Corn Feet

Counting with Candy Corns

 Candy Corn Shaped Sugar Cookies

Spider Hats

Pin the Spider on the Web Game

Make Glow in the Dark Slime and Put in Frankenstein Jar

Halloween Snack-Candy Corn Cupake, Monster Eyes, and Cracker with Cheese shapes

 Here are the two stories from this week.  Miss A's Mom came to our Halloween Party and she had a fun narration to the book "Big Pumpkin", we listened to the story and then she helped the children act out the story through movement.  It was really awesome to watch and especially for the children to be part of.

This week was so much fun.  Our Halloween Party was a little hectic, but I think the kids loved every minute of it.  Plus, they looked so dang cute in their costumes!

Next week is the Letter G, the color brown, Gingerbread Man week and sightword-for.  Yep, that's it.  See you all soon! Thanks to all the moms who came and helped at our party-I seriously could not have done it without all of you!

-Miss Heidi

Letter F Week/Color Green & Frogs

Letter F Week, The Color Green & Frogs

So here are a few quick highlights from the week. Our famous Letter page on Monday where I introduce the letter, we sing a letter F song and we talk about everything we can think of that starts with the letter F. Letter F is for; flag, fish, fruit, flowers, frog, football, five, four, faith, fork, fly & feather

 I say to the kids "Let's pretend to be scientist and mix two colors together." "What do you think it will make blue and yellow together?"  They are all smart and say..."GREEN".  We talk about the last few colors we have made (yellow and red make-orange, blue and red make-purple).  We go outside to do this activity because it is a little messy and we sit out there for a good 10-15 minutes because the kids just love using the droppers, working in teams and being scientist mixing colors. 

 Here is our Letter F hiding game, I wonder if the children will ever get tired of it.  I hide the items, they find the items.  When they find the items we practice the sound fffffffffffffffff.

 We worked hard all week and on Friday we needed a fun day.  So it was witch day, we read a witch story, we made witches brew and sang the witches brew song at least three times, we made cookie witch hats (ate one right away and took one home) and made witches hats.  A huge thank you to the two moms who came because there is no way I could have done these hats by myself. They have bows, stickers, sequin's, googly eyes, foam stars, and glitter.  They looked amazing and it was so fun to see how different they all were.

Here are the stories we read this week. And a few un-pictured highlights. 

*We had wonderful snacks like-popcorn, capri suns, fish, fruit loops, juice, jack-o-lantern peaches and crackers.   

* We are learning color songs for all the colors.

*We learned a new sightword-my

(running list-a, an, and, I , like, my)

*We played follow the leader during dance time and got our wiggles out.

*We are learning sign language for every letter A-F so far.

*We had circle time and we can recite the entire pledge of allegiance, count how many days we have been to preschool, sing two October songs, know the days of the week, talk about the weather and have some awesome show and tells.

Here is what we can look forward to next week; Halloween Fun and  A Halloween Party (I could use a few moms to come help from 10:30-11:30)-Let me Know.

There is NO SCHOOL Friday

The end of year program is scheduled for May 21st at the Centerville Library.

See you all for a Scary Week, 

Miss Heidi

Columbus Day & Field Trip

Columbus Day and Field Trip

This week is Columbus Day, we made our three ships: The Nina, The Pinta and the Santa Maria.  We sang songs about Columbus.

We read a story about Columbus.  

And we made edible ships.  Cucumber sails and deviled egg boats. 

Our field trip to the Pumpkin Patch on Friday was the best.  We had a snack (pumpkin bread and apple slices), played in the hay maze, read a story called, "I like Pumpkins", talked a little bit about how Pumpkins grow, chose a pumpkin to take home, took lots of pictures with pumpkins,  friends,  and on tractors.  The weather was beautiful and it was simply the best day ever!

Our field trip was so much fun it got me thinking that this year we might try and do a few more field trips that we usually do.  I was thinking every two months we should take a field trip.  So I am looking for some ideas for December and February.  I have an idea for April and May...so share, shout them out, ideas anyone?

Have a great 4 day weekend!  I will see you all tomorrow for the Letter F, the color green and Frog Week.

Yay hoo!

-Miss Heidi

Letter E Week

Letter E Week /Exercise Week & Color Purple

Alright lets get caught up here.  Letter E Week-on Monday, I introduce the Letter, we sing a song and make this page (uppercase E and lowercase e)

We play a Letter E game.  E is for Elf, Exercise, Elephant, Envelope, Eggs, Energizer Battery and Elmo. I hide the things and then the children get to find them.  We practice the letter E sound (two sounds-long/short) while we play the game.

On Wednesday we work on writing the letter E.  First we practice with little white boards and dry erase markers.  Then we practice on our alphabet page with crayons and pencils.  Because it is also exercise week, we also practiced all of the stretches on the paper. 

One of our favorite things during the week is our food experience.  Letter E is tricky so I went with a healthy snack, something to eat after exercise.  We talked a lot about healthy food and junk food, since we read "The Bearenstein Bears and TOO MUCH JUNK FOOD" (it took us two days).

On Friday, our science experiment for the week was mixing the color purple.  I divided the class into teams of two, one person used the dropper to put blue in the bottle and the other person to use the dropper and put red in the jar.  What does it make?  Yep, purple.  Plus the droppers were great fine motor practice.

On Friday, we read the "Itsy Bitsy Spider" and made a spider web art project.

These are the books we read this week.

One of the fun things we did for exercise week was dancing with rhythm sticks to a cd.  The songs give you instructions and movements to follow.  We did a movement song everyday for our exercise.  

We had some great snacks for letter E as well, cheddar bunny crackers and capri suns, eclairs, crackers, fruit snacks and pretzel gold fish. This year more than any other year, the children are such good eaters and are really enjoying snack time.  Thank you for all the wonderful snacks.

It was another fabulous week!
-Miss Heidi