5 Senses

Today we learned about our 5 senses. They made a book and got to draw pictures on each page. They came up with some pretty fun things to draw that they liked. Made me laugh! We put our 5 senses to test to see how hard it would be with out them. They had fun with that hands on experience. We read More Parts again and a few other books. and sang some fun songs. they are really liking the song Do Your Ears Hang Low. We have started reading Halloween/fall books lately.

 

If you ever have a book at home that goes along with the theme, please send it along we would love to read it in class. and from past experience i know they think it's fun to have their book read in class. Also we are low on Halloween books this year, if you have any that you can send with your child we would love to read them in class and will send them home with your child that day. it would be fun to have others to read!

Thanks for letting me teach your children! Hope you have a good weekend.

Nose!

We learned about our noses today. We made "fruit" trees that smell like lemons. We talked about what our noses do for us like smelling things and breathing. Some of the kids came up with fun answers! Someone mentioned that the job of a nose was to make boogers. So then we talked about how boogers keep germs and other things from going into our bodies. The kids were pretty interested in talking about boogers. :) So I thought it was a good time to reinforce the idea that picking our noses is not a good thing! :) We talked about what we like to smell with our noses. some of them said when their mom cooks, someone said the flowers.
It was a funny day at preschool that's for sure! they got to practice with glue again, and I think they are getting pretty good at it! their handwriting is getting really good too!

ears!

We learned about our ears today. We talked about the things our ears like to hear. e played with sounds on the table. We tapped our fingers soft for light rain, and continued faster and harder until it sounded like a big rainstorm. Then we tapped out beats with our hands. It was a lot of fun and they seemed to really enjoy it. we talked about what kinds of animals have ears. then colored pictures of a few of them, and drew on of ourselves! they are pretty good artists! and finished it off by singing "do your ears hang low"  a bunch of times!

Our Mouths

Today we learned about our mouths and the many things they do for us! We worked on our hand eye coordination with scissor cutting. They had fun, made a huge mess. that's when you know they are having fun though. I let them cut and try for a while then helped them all finish cutting their foods out. Then we talked about what we put into our bodies and what we should not. Then we got to feed our "mouths" with all the food they worked hard on cutting out. we also had show and tell, since it is Wednesday. They had fun today!

**don't forget that tomorrow is the Aerospace museum field trip! Meet in the lobby inside the field trip will start at 9:30. (it's located just east of the freeway right off the Roy exit) hope to see your little ones and you there!

eyes

Happy Monday to you! today we learned about our eyes. we talked about all the things we can see with our eyes. then they bumped and bonked around and with their eyes closed. we made binoculars and then went on a nature walk and they shouted out fun things they saw with their binoculars. they spotted an airplane, a rolly-polly bug, a crab apple tree, and a stop sign.

at stations today they played with the puppets and put on a really great show! it was fun to watch!

hands

We learned about hour hands. We traced our hands in red for our right hand and green for the left hand. We talked about all the things we can do with our hands. And how our left hands can make the uppercase letter L. They all enjoyed talking about what our hands are used for. And someone even said we can use our hands for picking our nose!  So very true, it made us all laugh!

we made red and green streamers and then we sang the Hokey-Pokey with red and green streamers in our hands. I think it helped them to learn right hands and left hands when they could see the colors. And singing and dancing is always fun!

We sang the funny colored monster song, and learned the finger play I'm a Nut as well as the finger play I'm a Mean old Witch. words are at the end.


* i sent home the October calendar. so make sure to check their backpacks today

As always thanks for letting me teach your little ones! have a good weekend.

MEAN Old Witch

I'm a MEAN old witch with a hat!   (hands pointed together over head)

I fly on my broom with my cat!      (make hands “fly” in the air)

My nose is pointed and my chin is too!    (draw Pinocchio nose, and pointy chin with hands)

You better watch out or I might scare you! (make “claw” hands)

Boo!

ACORN ROUND

I’m a little acorn round                   (hold hands out in a circle)

Sitting on the cold, hard ground,  (rub your arms like you are cold)

Everybody steps on me,             (pretend to stomp on something)

That is why I’m cracked you see. (Open arms in air)

I’m a nut,                                (knock on your head 2 times)

I’m a nut,                                (knock on your head 2 times)

I’m a nut, I’m a nut, I’m a nut.    (knock on your head 2 times after you say all 3)

feet!

Sorry about the late post today. We learned about our feet today. And we had a blast learning about them!

We talked about different kinds of shoes and what we can do in each of them. Then we talked about what kinds of things our feet can do. They all laughed when I told them that my feet can paint. So we went outside and painted with our feet! they thought it was silly had had a lot of fun! I have to say that their pictures looked really good. They have some talented feet!

I am happy to say that I don't think anyone got paint on their clothes. Can you believe it?? Despite the fact that the blue paint says it's washable... it doesn't appear to be. All of your children went home happy, full of knowledge, with a great art project and some with smurf feet! Sorry about that! Hopefully with some soap and a good scrub they'll be a little less smurf-ish.

My amazing body!

today we learned about our really cool, amazing bodies! they got to run, jump, skip, and dance with their bodies. we sang some silly songs. and then we headed outside to trace our bodies. they colored and decorated their body outlines. the kids came up with some fun ways to decorate them! some even drew their bones inside their bodies. we talked about their bones, their blood, their heart and lungs and brains. it was fun to hear what they had to say.

*the field trip to the aerospace museum is coming up. mark your calendars for Thursday the 22nd. meet at the aerospace museum at 9:30. they do not charge to go there, but they do take donations to keep it running.

*watch your child's backpack for snack reminders. i will hopefully remember to send them home! :)

thanks for all you do! preschool is so much fun!

MONSTERS!?

Monsters?! the only monsters in our class are funny colored ones! we learned about our colors today with the help of fun monsters. we made a monster color book. they did great at listening to directions on what to color each one. they are all really good at their colors! then we learned a song about funny colored monsters! we also learned about the number one. they found the number hidden around the room. And we enjoyed show and tell again this week. they shared their toys great at stations!


the words to Funny colored monsters: sung to the tune of skip to the loo my darling
Red, red, forgot his head, (put hands on head like you can’t find your head)
Red, red, forgot his head,
Red, red, forgot his head,
Funny colored monster!

Green, green, is a dancing queen (dance around)
Orange, orange, bit an orange (pretend to bite an orange)
Yellow, yellow, sat in jello (point to your behind like you are showing off jello on it)
Blue, blue, is sick with the flu… achoo! (pretend to sneeze)
Purple, purple, had to burple (put hand over your mouth like you just burped)
Pink, pink, sat in the sink… oops! (pretend to sit, then pop up on the oops part)
Black, black, plays quarter back (pretend to throw a football)
Brown, brown, turn around (turn around, and around)
White, white, bites at night. (put up hands like you are going to get them)

feelings

Today was all about learning about feelings. we talked about different feelings, and then they made those faces. they couldn't keep from laughing! i had them make a face with an emotion on it. they were pretty creative. some of them were sad, or scared, or happy. we even had one that was whistling!

Next week we start on our numbers! And the unit on our amazing bodies! should be fun.

just a few reminders: *no school on Monday for Labor day! *show and tell will be held on Wednesdays and was a big hit yesterday! please try to keep all toys at home on the other days. *if your child is ready to walk into preschool by themselves, let them try. preschool is all about instilling confidence. and maybe that will cut down on the missing-mommy-moments some of the kids have.

thanks again for such a great start to the school year!! I love teaching your kiddos! as always if you need anything please let me know!