Trinity Preschool Activities for Monday, September 10, 2012

Our first day with all of the classes here the whole time!  It went great.  As you can tell by the list of activities below- we have a busy time at Trinity Preschool!

We played on the playground today.

I list some of the special planned activities for each class.......

Willow Room MWF class:  

We read "Clifford's 1st school day" 
We painted using Q-tips to dip in the paint instead of paint brushes! We had dry erase markers at the easel.
We sang Brown bear, Tommy Thumb and danced to the list of dances 
We talked about the weather and the days of the week.
We talked about what we will do today at school.

Maple Room: morning class: 

We read "The kissing hand" by Audrey Penn
For art: We did finger painting with red and purple paint
We had tempra paint at the easel.

For music we sang "The September song", "Months of the year", "Jump Jim Joe", and "Hands are for clapping".

We also read "I don't want to go to school" and went over class rules and playground rules. 

Maple Room: afternoon class

We read "Clifford goes to school" by Norman Bridwell

We made placemats to use at snacktime
We did dab a dot painting at the easel.

We did "If you are happy and you know it" , "come and get a smiley face", and "5 little monkeys jumping on the bed"


Oak Room: Pre-k 

We read "If you take a mouse to school" by Laura Numeroff

We painted apple shapes with puffy paint. We will hang them in the room.

We had dab a dot painters at the easel.

We did "5 little apples" "There is a Dog in school" and "The silly dance contest" for music.

We are learning  about the letter "A".  We talk about things that start with the letter A, the letter sound, we practice writing the letter A, we think of words that start with the letter, and we read books about the letter.


Stay & Play: 

We read "Dixie" by Grace Gilman

We painted with sparkly paint and mixed the colors to create new colors.

We used scarves to dance with- we did the songs "Sally the swinging snake" and "Moving every day"

We played an ABC BINGO small group game.