Circus clowns

Thursday and the last preschool day of the week.  We were really busy this morning!!  We had blown up balloons and they were in near the fireplace, but the kids spied them the minute they came into the room.  Each one picked a color and we marked them for easy escape at the end of the day.

  I had them rub the balloons on their hair to show that they can stick to the wall with this static electricity.  We punched the balloons into the air to see how many times we could do it before it hit the ground.  I had  a bag of balloons and we separated them by color and then counted them to see how many of each there were.  Then we put them in piles of tens so that they have the tens concept introduced.

Letter C and helping baskets

Well, August is past and we begin our month of September.  To begin the month, I handed each of the children a basket which will always remain in their cubby. In this basket are various things that will help them through the year.  I t will also have items in it that, when a child finishes his or her work, she can choose something from her basket to do.  For instance, there is a folder:

 In this folder are the numbers from one to ten which they can use tpo know the numbers in order, or to just learn to write the numbers  It also includes the alphabet.

 these letters and numbers are to help them know the order of the alphabet and numbers.  It also helps them to know the primary colors and to recognize the states

 a shoe with the lace is to teach how to tie, the phone their phone number and the apple how to lace

I told them the story of The stone soup.  Each added pieces  as I told the story.  I told them that the story was to give an example of a big word, which is COOPERATION  /When we work together we can do anything.  In this case, a town did not have enough to eat.  When each family contributed something the whole town got to eat. What will we need to cooperate doing to help our preschool class??

 

 

 

 

 Playtime and Tripp is playing with the fisher price toys

 Sam and Chase play with the batman cave

 The girls can almost always be caught in the kitchen

 I told the story of the wolf and the three little pigs.  Each was to color them and add the stick so that we could have a puppet show and each was to have a part.

 

The kids had a very good time today and each one was able to find something  that interested them.

Our body and our feelings

Today we talked more about our bodies, but specifically we talked about our feelings:
The first thing that we did was to put a paper plate on a heavy paper and draw around it to make a head.  We then laced in some yarn to make hair for the head.  There were two plates, so one was to be a happy face and the other a frowny face.  The one I made as an example Tripp told me looked angry, not sad.  They put googly eyes on the faces and smiles, or frowns.  Then they put a tongue depresser as their stick.  We then  asled  "How would you feel if . . .
Or, how eo you feel when. . . .
such questions as:
 Your mom tells you you're going to have a new baby sister or brother?
You break your favorite toy by accident?
Your mother or father spanks you for something you shouldn't have done?
it is your birthday
you have a fever and must stay in bed?
you ruin your new clothes by playing in the mud

 I needed to find out how they are doing at recognizing the upper case letters of the alphabet

We talked about our houses and homes the other day and the kids wanted to have "houses" in the play room, so I set up a few of the tens and they had a good time moving from house to house .

 They also learned about some more feelings--they were hurt when they were not permitted to enter the "house " of one of the other children.

Each day, one of the things that the kids are asked to do is see that their area is cleaned, their chairs pushed up to the table and their work put into their bags.  Here is Chase using the hand sweeper and the floor looks really good!!

 Then we played the body game where they had six body parts and to get the part they rolled a dice, picked that number part and then they had to do the action.  One was to see if they could touch their nose with their tongue!!

We are now ready to start learning our letters.  Tuesday we will begin with the letter "C"

Our Body

We talked about this wonderful gift that our Heavenly Father gave to us--this Earthly Body.  I told them about that special place a mother grows the seed that becomes a beautiful little baby.  I showed them the way the baby grows and how thankful we are when a new baby comes to our house.  We talked about our hair

and our eyes

Then we talked about our teeth.  Things we should eat and things we need to do to keep our teeth healthy and strong.  Here is June showing off her first set of teeth

 I told them how important our teeth are in helping us speak--the sounds of the different words

 I gave them each a pair of nice white teeth, and this set of awfully decayed teeth and gums  Sam and

 Chase wanted to show us those awful looking teeth--they thought they were "cool"

June looked in a mirror and decided she wanted to show off those nice white teeth she has

 as did Jane

and also Tripp also showed us his smile!!

I read thisbpook by Tedd Arnold about a little boy who was just sure that his body was falling apart from the inside out, starting with his losing of hair and belly button fuzz.

We talked about our whole body--our blood, heart, lungs, skeleton, skin and just about everything this fabulous body has.

Then I gave them a worksheet with the different parts of the body.  They pasted the parts to the shell of a body.

 Here Chase has his finished

 

When we were finished I had them use their fine motor skills by using this clothes pin to pick up the items in the dish.  Of course we had a few of the pins break, but that is the trying experience of pinching something together to pick up the items.  There was a little ninja soldier, a lizard, a button, a small eraser

Then I took some of these items, placed them on a tray, covered them and had them figure out which item was missing.  They all did really well with this.

When the room was cleaned up and everyone had collected their backpacks, we headed to the family room to wait for the parents and to listen to the "bells"  There is a little play area where I have put a Fisher Price barn and animals, some blocks, and these trucks.  The boys especially like this place.

We had a great day in PreK today and I hope they can tell their parents just how thankful they are for the wonderful gift they have been given--a body!!

Houses and addresses

We talked about houses that people all over the world live in

 Then we colored and drew about a house and put the children's address on the house

 We played this game again so they would remember whose house belongs to who and then added the addresses that belonged to each house

 Then they each were given the house drawing and they were to color it, add whatever they wanted and then, of course, put their addresss on the house

 Then we did some cutting to place the things that belong in a school room

 We read Look at me

At the end of each day,(Thursday, the 21st) they have clean up and put their chairs up to the table.  They each get a turn at this little hand sweeper to pick up any paper and trash

 

The end of a day of learning!