Trinity Preschool Activities for Thursday, May 17, 2012

Willow Room- T/Th class

We read "Fidgety Fish" by Ruth Galloway

We asked the children "Do you have a fish at home?"

We wrote the children's name on a white paper with a white crayon- then the children painted over it with watercolors.  The watercolors don't stick to the crayon, so the name magically appears.

We had painting at the easel.

We did "Went to the pet store" song and "Put your finger on" for music time.  

We let one of the butterflies go today.  We watched as it flew away.

Maple Room:

We read "How groundhog's garden grew" by Lynne Cherry

The children made their own "oil" paints today.  They mixed dry tempra paint and dish soap. The result looks like oil paint.  Then they painted great pictures.

We did "Down around the corner", pretty flowers, and the May song for music.

We did a listening lotto game.  We listened to words on a CD  and tried to figure out rhyming words and beginning sounds.

We had the new magnetic ramps in the room, we had fun exploring them.

Oak Room:

We read" Ella, of course!"  by Sarah Weeks (an umbrella story)

We painted on an umbrella shape and sprayed water on it (like rain)

We did bug sorting, ans some word puzzles

We did "jumping and counting" by Jim Gill

We did a graph of how many buttons do you have on your clothes?  

Trinity Preschool Activities for Wednesday, May 16, 2012

Stay & Play:

We read "The duckling gets a cookie" by Mo Willems

We did a group painting project, we played a variety of kinds and tempos of music and the children walked around the table moving to the music and painting on a mural. We ended up with a brown blob of a painting, but they sure had fun creating it and that is what matters!

We did a lady bug rhyme where we talked about colors. we also danced to the music we used for art- different tempos and we used scarves.

Willow Room- MWF class:

We read "Fidgety fish" by Ruth Galloway

Our question today was "If you do not have the letter Z in your name, can you think of a word that begins with the letter Z?"

We wrote our name using write crayons, then painted over it with watercolors to reveal our name.  

We painted at the easel with green peppers to make a flower print.

We sang "Went to the pet shop (to buy a fish)", Put your finger on, and the pirate song.

We played with water that has bubbles in it; with fish, and plastic fish, ducks and a lot of other fun water toys.

We trimmed our grassy heads too.

Maple Room:

We read "Mortimer's First Garden" by Karma Wilson and "From caterpillar to butterfly" a great book about the transformation.  JER 595.789 HEI  (at the library)

We did a cutting and gluing project to make sun flowers.  We painted with real sun flowers at the easel and with ferns.

We did the May song, The freeze dance using new bell ribbons on sticks, (we also did jingle bells with them); and  we did The shaker hop with them too.  we also did the Alphabet letter sounds song.

We practiced letter sounds.  
 

Oak Room:

We read "Flap your wings" by PD Eastman

We planted a paper garden- we spread thick black paint on paper (paint mixed with salt) and then glued on flowers made from crumpled up tissue paper.

The children are really enjoying the magnetic ramps with the marbles.  It is great to see how much thought they put into where to put the blocks to block the path and where the marble goes then.

We did some rubber band designs on geo boards.

We did Shaking everywhere- a Jim Gill song, and colored flowers using props for music time today.

We had the estimating jar, how many bugs?

 

Trinity Preschool Activities for Tuesday, May 15, 2012

Willow Room: T/TH class

We talked about our mom's coming to school last week.

We read "The three little fish and the big bad shark"

We looked at our butterflies and our growing plants.

We did fish in fish bowls.  We added blue hair gel and fish stickers with glitter into baggies and sealed them shut.  The we added a fish bowl frame.

We did The bean bag alphabet rag for music.

We gave haircuts to our grassy heads and we had water play in the room.

Oak Room:

We read "Franklin plants a tree"  and "I'll fly away" by David Kirk

We painted with green peppers cut in half crosswise.  they look like flowers.

We did deep in the jungle with the drums; Old Mc Donald had a band and let's play in a band using instruments.

We talked about  nocturnal animals as a review of our earlier learning this year.

We cut our grass today on our lawns of our houses.

 

Trinity Preschool Activities for Monday, May 14, 2012

Stay & Play: 

 We read "Animal Masquerade" by Marianne Dubuc

We experimented with paint, we had paint in small egg carton cups and we mixed some with salt, some with corn starch and some with flour to see how it changed the consistency.

We did "Poison ivy" by Jim Gill and used maracas to dance along.

We had fun with some new floor puzzles and a magnetic ramp with tunnels, and marbles.

We had our snack outside as a picnic and spent some extra time playing outside.

Wilow Room: MWF class

We asked the children if they have the letter Y in their name?  

Our story was "The three little fish ad the big bad shark" by Ken Geist

We made little fish bowls for art.  The children squeezed blue hair gel into a baggie and we added some glitter and little fish.  We sealed it up and added a fish bowl frame around it.

We had alphabet letter magnets at the easel.

We did  The bean abg alphabet rag song using bean bags and the ABC song.

We had water play today and we have a picnic area set up in our dramatic corner.

Maple room:

We read "What makes a rainbow?" by Betty Ann Schwartz

We made rainbows with only three colors- red, yellow and blue, then we covered the paper with wax paper and smooshed the colors together.  

We made rainbows at the easel with dab a doo painters.

We did Tap your toe and follow me, can't sit still for music time.

We did a "Where is the rainbow hiding" color game and a rainbow rhyme.

Oak Room:

We read "Mortimer's First Garden" by Karma Wilson and "Llama llama red pajama" by Anna Dewdney

We cut out sun flower shapes and added a stick to the shape.  Then we stuck it in a cup that we planted sun flowers into.

We got to use some new magnetic ramp toys and some new floor puzzles.

We did animal actions, Tommy thumb is up, and two little butterflies.

 

Trinity Preschool Activities for Friday, May 11, 2012

We had a wonderful day celebrating all of the mom's.  The children sang songs, gave their mom's (or grandma's) the special present they made for them and then we all had cookies and punch together.  

Trinity Preschool Activities for Thursday, May 10, 2012

Willow room:

We changed our schedule up today since we had our Mom's Tea at 11:00.  We did not go outside or to the gym, we had choice time and prepared for our party.  The children did a great job singing the songs they worked so hard on for the moms.  We enjoyed cookies and punch together too.

Maple Room:

We read "The tiny seed" by Eric Carle 

We did painting by wrapping ping pong balls in foil; dipping them in paint and rolling them in a box.

We did some springtime songs today. Bugs in the garden, and 5 little flowers.

We did a rhyming game, they were given a piece with a picture and they had three choice to chose the rhyming picture from.

Oak Room:

We read "No roses for Harry" by Gene Zion

We did the second part of the mural- we painted black in all the white spaces left from our painting.

We did an ABC chart: we cut pictures to glue in a square with the beginning letter sound.

We practiced for Mother's Day program/

We did a group activity matching pieces together : "What goes together puzzle"

 

Trinity Preschool Activities for Wednesday, May 9, 2012

Stay & Play:

We read "Too many Frogs" by Sandy Asher

We drew on coffee filters, then we painted over our drawing with glitter watercolors.

We did Bean Bag Alphabet tag, shake rattle and roll, stop and go and turn around song for music today.

We played chutes and ladders game.

We had fun with the animal doctor office in the Oak room.

Willow Room:MWF class:

We talked to the children about mom's and asked them "What do you like to do with your mommy?" We looked at items that start with the letter X.

We did the " The Hungry Caterpillar" story using felt pieces.

We painted with dish scrubbers and mixing colors.

We had magnetic colorful sticks at the easel for the children to use to make shapes.

we practiced our Mother's Day songs.

We had sand and design rollers in the sensory table.

We gave our grassy heads a hair cut.  We checked on our growing plants.

We are watching a giant crab sponge grow in water- it is a little thing, and when in the water, it grows larger. 

We have a picnic and bbq set up in our dramatic play area.

Maple Room::

We read "A seed in need" by Sam Goodwin

We used mesh pot scrubbers and real flowers to paint with today.  The children used the flowers and pot scrubbers to make prints and added pom poms and stems with paint to make flowers.

We painted with real flowers at the easel.

We practiced our songs for Mother's Day program on Friday.

We did letter Z activities .

We are also doing some experiments with lima beans and sunflower seeds.  we put some in water, some in a dry area, and we are going ot see what happens.

Oak Room:

We read "Miss Spider's Tea Party" and we read " Are you my Mother?"

We did a group mural painting project.  We painted on paper with pastels and we will add some black after it dries.

We reviewed the 5 senses 

We practiced our Mother's Days song.