Trinity Preschool Activities for Monday November 11-10-14

Oak Room: We are starting a series on books and art by Eric Carle.

We read "Walter the Baker" by Eric Carle and "Rooster's off to see the world" by Eric Carle

We used special rollers that have designs on them to roller paint over an apron shape paper, then cut out an apron pocket shape and glued it onto the apron shape.


We did "Turkey in the brown straw", "Silly dance contest", and Alphabet Sounds" for music time.

Willow Room: MWF

We read "Franklin's Thanksgiving" by Paulette Bourgeois

We made turkeys using water colors and eye droppers on a coffee filter.

We painted using feathers instead of paint brushes (long, large feathers)

We did "I'm a little leaf rhyme" We did leaf rubbings at the free art table.

We talked about sharing and how they shared in our story.  We shared paint today.

We did "Put your finger on", "Bean Bag Boogie" and "Bean Bag Pretend" for music today.

Maple Room: MWF class

We read "The great turkey race" by Steve Metzger

We made place-mats for our Thanksgiving feast, we did weaving.

We had water color pencils at the easel.

We did letter I activities, the letter I song, learned the motion that goes with the letter, we did the letter I book and the looked at the things that start with the letter I in the "monster letter box".

We did The November song, 5 little turkeys, and Turkey feather song with letters on them.

Stay and Play:

We read "Mr. Murry and Thumbkin" by Karma WIlson

We painted on water colors on tin foil and then pressed paper on top to make a print.

We did "Tommy Thumb" "Herman the Worm", and we played musical instrument chairs ( we put musical instruments on a chair and when the music stopped, they played the instrument on that chair.