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!

New friends

We talked about friends today. How to be a good friend, how we play nice with friends, and how to share with our friends.

They brought their show and tell today and had a great time showing the things they brought, and telling about some of their favorite things. it was fun to get to know each of our new friends a little better!

They drew a picture of the things they like to do with their friends. there were some really good pictures. and the kids were so excited to tell us all about it.

We read the books The New Bear at School, and Giraffes Can't Dance. To finish it all off we played a match game with pictures of our classmates. they loved it!