We Love Our Families!

To in preschool we discussed families.  We had great conversations about Moms, Dads, Grandparents, and even dogs (because they are family, too).
We also:

• worked on our cutting skills
• enjoyed centers (the children loved the new center where they we able to string alphabet beads)
• worked on sitting, listening, counting, and singing skills during Circle Time
• read, "Alice the Fairy" by David Shannon
• discussed families
• introduced the children to my 'stick figure' family
• enjoyed making our own stick figure families - they titled them "Family Creations" 
• enjoyed the weather outside (are we going to have another one of those no snow/water years?)
• focused on letter Ee

We also welcomed a guest, Oxtin, who joined us for part of the day.  He may be coming to the preschool.

It was a great day.
jen

Fall

We are continuing our theme of Fall and working hard to understand more about the seasons of our Earth.  Today we:

• practiced our names
• sorted fall leaves with UPPER and lower-case letters on them
• enjoyed centers where we worked with blocks, legos, alphabet matching, and, of course, pretend play.  
• sang, counted, listed days of the week, recited poems and such during Circle Time
• read Fall Leaves Fall by Zoe Hall
• gathered our clipboards and crayons and ventured outside to 'find' our class tree, then closely looked at the tree then drew what OUR tree looks like in the Fall
• practiced writing skills as we wrote out the word Fall
• enjoyed snack and outside time
• had an EVENTFUL show-n-tell
• ended the day with our Scholastic magazine 1,2,3 Autumn and watched a Scholastic video on how a pumpkin grows.

Another enjoyable day here.  It is so wonderful to see the  bonds forming between friends and watching new friendships blooming.

Thank you for the good times with your children!
Jen

FALL::

Fall is the time when the leaves fall down.
Orange, and yellow
and golden brown.
Fall is the time when the leaves fall down.

That is the poem/song we learned today about the Season we are discussing in Preschool.

Today, we also:

• -worked with our names (we are getting them!!).
• - did leaf rubbings and also took time to really LOOK at leaves.
• -enjoyed centers and individual work time with the teacher (on letters & sounds).
• - discussed the turning of the months.
• -read The Four Seasons
• Enjoyed one of my favorite activities: Fall Rock Painting.  

Fall Rock Painting:
Each child marks their paper with their name.  Then each child gets to choose the Fall colors they want to dob on their paper.  (It is important to let them experiment with squeezing the containers so they understand what "a little" and "a lot" really is.) Then came the only part I helped them with - rolling up the long paper and putting it into an oatmeal container.  They picked two rocks and tossed them in the container and closed the lid.  Then the fun began!  They shook it as long as they wanted to - some decided to go hard, some decided to roll it on the table.  After they thought they were done, they opened the lid and pulled out their unique masterpiece!
*I didn't use brown because I thought I would take over all the other colors, but next time, I for sure will - it will look more Fallish!

We then:

• enjoyed playing outside -for maybe the last time for a while :(
• ate our snack.
• worked hard on letter Cc.
• and ended the day with show n tell.

It was a wonderful Fall day!

Looking forward:
- Letter Cc homework is in folders.
- Next week we will continue with the theme of Fall.