Activities for Wednesday, November 3, 2010

It was a little rainy today so we brought trikes, balls, the see saw and other toys out in the gym for gym time today.

Willow Room: MWF

We read "Does a cow say Boo?" by Judy Hindley

Our question today was "Which farm animal would you like to be?

We used farm stampers and tempra paint at the table and stencils at the easel today.

We sang Old Mc. Donald had a farm and stick, sticky bubble gum.

We added a pretend barn to our dramatic play area- our farm. Tht was so much fun.

Maple Room:

We read "The Thanksgiving Bowl" by Virginia Kroll

The children painted on bubble wrap with paint brushes and the we made a print of it. we will turn them into the cob for corn on our bulletin board.

We had paint/glue and leaves at the easel with special pine needle paint brushes.

We sang the November song, 5 little pumpkins, Turkey in the straw, Today is Monday, and we dd the freeze dance while wearing jingle belts.

We did some letter "E' activities and we did an ABCDE guessing game.

Oak Room

We read "Owl Babies" by Martin Waddell

We wrote in our journal notebooks - we are on the letter H, so we wrote the letter and drew pictures of words that begin with H.

We had out some number activities, "H" puzzles, shape links.

We are talking about nocturnal animals, so we did some opossum rhymes today and we sang the song "I like my hat" using bean bags.

We did an ABC chant and sorted pictures by beginning sounds, (A-H)

We are also working on evaluating the children for conferences.