"Z" is for zebra

Today we are making a zebra paper bag puppet.

 I told them the story about Zippy Zebra

 We worked a little bit with numbers and colors as there was a different color monkey for each number.

 

 I gave each child 10 skittles and then pulled out a card of subtraction.  The first card was 7 - 3 =4 and each had to take away that amount.

Then we made zebra bag puppets.

This was Janaye's birthday so she had brought birthday oreos and apple juice.  They were happy to eat that, after we sang the birthday song to her

 I did not know there were such things as birthday cake oreos.  Try them, they are great

 Happy little faces, right?

We gave them instructions of some things to do

 act like an animal we see at the zoo!

We read some really good books about the zoo and the animals in them

Thursday is another "Z" day

Letter "Y" yellow, yell, yodel, yak

It was fun to see that one of the kiddoes wore yellow today because he could be our spotlighted child.
This morning we just did not seem to be motivated to do anything until the kids spotted the container of stencils. I have collected some for every holiday and letter and whatevers, so I just got out paper and pencils, crayons, and stencils and they went crazy with anything I pulled out of the box.  Not only did they trace from the inside, the outside, and colored on the inside.  It was so much fun to watch

 I have this box of transportation puzzles and the kids love them.

 Hyrum putting the torn pieces of yellow paper on the letter "y"

 Joey's pieces were a little bigger so it was hard for him to make sure that they did not fall off

 good job!!

 We read a book about ym and yuck and how the yak did not even try to try new foods.  She would just spit it out.  So, each of the kids tried the three varieties of yogurt and were very good about actually trying each one.  They had cinnamon graham crackers to eat with it

 

 The girls did well, too.

 Blueberry, strawberry and peach

 We are also learning about opposites

 And our fable for this letter is the city mouse and the country mouse.  Tell about the differences they both live with.

We had a great day and I am so glad to be a preschool teacher!!

letter X

X is a hard letter to find things to do with the kids, but they do know how to make an 'X and they use it.  So, the first thing we talked about was xrays.  I showed them some I had taken of my foot when I broke my toes.  It is hard to know if they really understand all that, but we talked about it and they are now exposed to what an xray looks like.
Then I had cut out a big black x and they put white bones on them.  Some of them colored the pages and the x's but they enjoyed it.

 Then they wanted to make an X with their bodies.

 I told them a story about an X who was looking for something that had an x in its name.  He talked to a kitten, abird, a bear, a hat, and a scarecrow and finally found an ox.

 We spelled out each word so they could see if there was an X

 Then they had the wiggles and we drew sticks to see who was to see their "show and tell" objects.  Janaye brought this bracelet she had gotten with a cow on it

 Sam had a key ring with his name on it

 and a flattened penny with Mickey Mouse on it

 Hyrum showed us one of the prizes he had gotten from our prize box

 Lily showed us her Hello Kitty purse

Joey showed us his little wagon

 Then I had placed a big blue X on the floor and I had the kids stand on the x and throw bean bags into this pink container

 Lily threw the rings on to the number pegs and did very well

Miss Jo came and read them a few pages to talk about the x words

 We talked about opposites  "Sometimes I'm Good  sometimes I'm Bad

 A little story about X Ray X whho lived in an X shaped house with X's on it

And the kids held their arms above their heads and made the letter X

There are a lot of different ways to talk about X and this was our way

Letter "J"

I don't know what happens to the days, as they go so fast.  Letter J was lots of fun.  Thursday we talked about the jungle animals and were able todo some patterning, matching and determining the differences.

 Which two are alike??

 

 We played a short number bingo game with jelly beans

 When the game was over they were allowed to eat 8 jelly beans

 

 Each of the kids sang the alphabet game pointing to the letters

 

I made finger jello for snacks

 Joey liked it, but not all of them did

Book of the day

 

 

 Another letter recognition day