Trinity Preschool Activities for Wednesday, Feb. 15, 2012

Stay & Play:

We read "My crayons talk" by G Brian Karas

we used yellow paint and roller brushes,and sponge stampers in blue paint.

We did the color song by Hap Palmer, and we did dancing songs with maracas

The children had fun exploring the oak room's space station.

Willow Room:

We asked the children if they have a letter I in their name? I is our letter this week.
We read "Chicka Chicka Boom Boom by Bill Martin

We did the letter tree from Chicka chicka boom boom

We used fun brushes- painting with red, yellow blue and white.

We had watercolors at the easel.

We did "I like my hat", "Put your finger on" and Sticky Bubble Gum" for music.

We changed our dramatic corner into a kitchen, with dolls, ironing board, food.

Maple Room:

We are doing our construction unit and today we read "The house that Max built" by Maxwell Newhouse

We did a group painting project that we will cut building shapes from for our bulletin board. I posted pictures on another BLOG posting of smash, roll, scrape painting.

We did "The February song, construction song, button factory, brown bear, Jump up turn around, list of dances for music today.

We did letter P activities, we also did number 1-10 memory game of find the hammer hiding behind the letter.

We read Jack's House" by Karen Beil

Oak Room:

We read "There's no place like space" by Tish Rabe about the solar system

We cut out rocket ship shapes and painted them with red and blue water colors for our bulletin board. We have a picture of each child with a space helmet on like they are in the space ship.

We have out some new space themed puzzles, the letter T puzzle and our dramatic corner is now a space station.

We learned some new space songs, "The planets revolve around the sun" and we used maracas to sing "Purple people eater."

We changed our attendance name tags to astronauts.