Activities for Friday, February 5, 2010

Willow Room: MWF class

We read "The Jolly Postman" by Janet and Allan Ahlberg; it is a cute classic story about a postman delivering the mail, so it ties in nicely with our post office.

We asked the children if they have ever received mail?

We created our own giant stamps! We used heart shape cookie cutters on paper cut out to look like a stamp.

We had some heart sorting activities, sorting melting snowman, magnadoodle, and shapes peg boards out today.

We did the Silly dance contest song (we danced with ribbons), list of dances, and brown bear, brown bear.

We had shredded paper in the sensory table and scissors to cut it up.

Maple Room

We had a guest reader today, Pastor Dan read Mr. Griggs' work by Cynthia Rylant

We made letter bags at the art table today, and we had paint, paint brushes and paper at the easels.

The kids picked the songs today, plus we dd the February song.

We practiced writing letters on the white boards today and we mailed a letter home.

Oak room:

We read "I.Q. It's time" by Mary Ann Fraser


We made the first page of our number book- one-one correspondence. One dot in each square helps the children understand that each time you say a number it represents one item. We also made pictures using the bingo markers.

We had picture number puzzles, and board games out today.

We used rhythm sticks, and did 5 little bunnies - an ordinal number rhyme.

Activities for Thursday, February 4, 2010

Willow Room: T/Th class

"I like me" by Nancy Carlson was the book we read today.

We did finger painting on bubble wrap- it is a fun sensory experience to feel the paint on the poppy paper. We used red and white paint to make pink and we pressed a paper on top of the paint to make a print.

We had heart shapes stencils and paint at the easels.

We had our dress a person out at the table, stringing beads, lots of puzzles, and our post office fun today.

We were matching real mittens and hanging them on a clothes line.

We sang skinnamarink, love grows one by one and five little valentines for music time today.

We have shredded paper in our sensory table and the children were encouraged to tear the paper up.

Oak Room

We read "I.Q. Gets fit" by Mary Ann Fraser

We made covers for our number books. We used large foam number stampers dipped in paint to decorate them. We had heart shape stencils, pink and purple glitter paint and rollers and brushes at the easel.

We had some board games out, a puppet theatre, our library center, and some buttons to explore.

We sang the pirate song, pass the bean bag to music.

The children are enjoying the library center we have set up. We have cards for them to stamp with due dates for books, they each have their own "library card" and they also sort the books back on the shelf by matching the book to the right section.

Activities for Wednesday, February 3, 2010

Willow room- mwf class

We read "I'm gonna like me" by Jamie Lee Curtis and Laura Cornell

Our question today was "Do you have the letter "G" in your name?

We finger painted with red and white paint on top of bubble wrap. then we made a print onto paper.

We had heart shape stencils and paint at the easels.

We had out our pink playdough, alphabet puzzles, dress a doll, and a Valentine puzzle shape match out today.

We sang Skinnamarink, love grows, and 5 little Valentines.

We have shredded paper and scissors in our sensory table.


Maple room:

We read Penguin Post by Debi Gliori

We did a cutting project for our bulletin board. We cut house shapes.

We also did a "design your own stamp" with paint at the easel.

We had a mailbox shape find game, and a letters in your name game. We are working on the letter "L".

We sang the February song, months of the year, pass the envelope, we used the tambourines to dance and play to "Fun to get fit"and "shake rattle and roll".

Oak room

We read "I.Q. goes to the library" by Mary Ann Fraser

We worked on "R" pictures on our journals and we continued to make books today. Our library

We sang the opposite song, and used rhythm sticks to do a syllable tap (we tap the stick for each syllable in a word) and we used them for wheels on the bus too.

We had a board game and dice out also today in the dramatic corner is very popular. We have books to sort on the shelves and our own library cards.

Activities for Tuesday, February 2, 2010

Willow room- t/th class

We read "A day with the mail carrier" by Jan Kottke
We are talking about the color pink. Our question today was "Have you ever visited the post office?"

We glued foam letters on envelopes to decorate our class bulletin board. We had magnetic shapes at the easel.

We had some dressing dolls out today, a number peg puzzle, and a heart shape matching game.

We sang "I like my hat" and "the fish song".

We had our new post office set up today and we have new pink playdough with some heart shape cookie cutters and rolling pins.

Oak Room:

We read a really cute story called "Library mouse" by Daniel Kirk
The children got very excited about writing their own stories and became authors and illustrators.

We also made post cards to mail home. The children drew pictures on one side and made a Valentine wish on the other. We then walked to the office to mail them.
We sang bean bag boogie and put your finger on.

We are talking about he letter R.

Activities for Monday, February 1, 2010

Willow Room: MWF class

We read A day with a mail carrier by Jan Kottke and asked the children if they have ever been to a post office.

We transformed our dramatic corner into a post office now. The children will be mail carriers and sort mail too.

We do the weather, days of the week and some counting activities at our second circle too.

For art today we glued foam letters onto envelopes to decorate our post office themed bulletin board.

We had magnetic shapes at the easel.

We had letter puzzles out for the letters F,G,H.
We had a sorting game out, a number puzzle and some letter beads for stringing.

We sang I like my hat (and used paper hats for the song), we also sang the fish song

Maple Room:

We read "Double Trouble Groundhog day" by Bethany Roberts

We did shadow painting to be like the ground hog seeing his shadow. We used heart shapes and the children put the shape on the paper and painted around it so when we took it up, it looked like a shadow.

We had brushes at the easel.

We sang months of the year", "the February song", and "do you know these letter sounds?"

We are talking about the letter "L" this week.

Our dramatic corner is now a post office, with sorting activities, scales for weighing packages, cash registers, and many post office items. The children were very busy in our post office today.

Oak Room:

We read "DW's library card" by Marc Brown

We cut out heart shapes today and then painted them by putting them in a box and rolling marbles over them that had been dipped in paint. We will use them to decorate our bulletin board.

We are talking about the letter "R" this week.

We changed our dramatic corner into a library. The children each have their own "Trinity Library card" and they will sort books and check them out. They really enjoyed this today.

We sang "Hello, my name is Joe", Put your finger on, and "Where is thumbkin?"

Activities for Friday, January 29,2010

Willow room- MWF class

Our question today was "Do yo have the letter F in your name?

We read "My five senses" by Aliki and we made a chart of words that start with the letter F.

We had a group art project today, a big pieces of paper, and we used rollers with red and blue paint- so we made purple.

We had scented paint at the easel- it smells yummy.

We had an alphabet picture book out, some shape puzzles, and our magnadoodle.

We had a fine motor and matching activity out today- mittens and clothespins. they had to find the matching pair and then clip them onto the clothesline.

We used rhythm sticks today and used them while we sang along to a nursery rhyme cd.

Maple Room:

We read "The mitten" by Jan Brett today.

We cut a mitten shape out for a class book we are making. We painted with ice cubes.

We sang Dino Rhymes, did the chicken dance, and did head shoulders, knees and toes.

We practiced writing out letters on our white boards today.

We played a game with the parachute pretending it was a giant mitten and we were all the animals from the story getting inside to keep warm.

Oak Room;

We had our Pajama party today. The children came in pajama's and we had extra fun with sleepytime activities all day. When the children arrived, 2 of the teachers were "still sleeping" on the floor and the children were greeted by the director who told them they needed to be extra quiet since everyone was still asleep. The children were not sure what to do....they walked round a bit, then played with the toys quietly so as not to wake their teachers. It was so cute. After about 6 or 7 minutes of this, I told the we needed to wake up the teachers....

Then class got started, they read "Corduroy Bear while the children cuddled with their stuffed animals.

For art, they cut overalls to glue on a bear shape to look like corduroy bear. They drew on a face and glued on buttons.

For music we acted out "10 in the bed" and "5 little monkeys jumping on the bed".

We all sat on a big blanket and watched "Arthur's first sleepover".

We had a fun special day.

Activities for Thursday, Januaary 28

Willow Room: T/TH class

We are talking about the color purple and we asked "Are you wearing anything purple today?"
We read the story "Harold and the Purple Crayon" by Crockett Johnson
We added purple items to our purple train.

We used red and blue glitter paint with eye droppers to creat purple pictures. We put the paint on mitten shape paper, then we folded them over and made blot pictures.

We had chalk at the easels.

We had out letter beads for stringing, letter puzzles, and a lock puzzle.

We sang Face the facts, and did a honey pots color guessing game.

We are finishing up our pizza shop and we had out a mitten matching game.


Oal Room:

We read "When it starts to snow" (it is about what will the animals do?) by Phyllis Gershator

We did icicle painting- we angled the painting surface and used eye droppers to drip colorful paint down the paper from the top (and watched it run down the paper tot the bottom) When we were all done, we sprinkled glitter on the paper. Some of the spent a long time doing this, they were fascinated by the colors running together and liked watching the paint run. we also had added soap to the paint and some of the time it made bubbles when they squeezed the eye droppers. This was a fun project.

We had out perfection- a shape matching game, and a dinosaur board game.

We sang some hibernation songs, and some sing a long songs.