Trinity Preschool Activities for Friday, October 19, 2012

Willow Room: MWF class

We read "Tiny on the farm" by Carl Meister.
We asked the children what they could tell us about farm animals for our question today.

We painted with corn on the cobs.  We rolled them around in a box over paper to make a fun corn cob print.

We did "Over the deep blue sea", "Tommy Thumb" and "Everybody has a face for music today.

We played with our muddy pigs again today.

We did a colored apples rhyme.


Maple Room- morning class:
We read "The falling leaves and the scarecrow" by Steve Metzger

We painted on leaves with watercolors and made a print of it.

We had oil pastels and black paper at the easel.

We did "The October song, 5 little pumpkins (we acted it out- everyone had a turn being a pumpkin) and scarcrow, scarecrow.

We talked about words that start with the letter C, we practiced writing the letters on our white boards and we had bead stringing today instead of playdough. 


Maple Room- Afternoon class

We did Baa Baa Black sheep- Miss Mary Mack
We are talking about the color black.
We read "Black dog- Red House"  by Lizi Boyd

We glued cotton balls to a black sheep shape for art today- we made our own Baa Baa Black sheep
We had textured rollers at the easel to use with paint.

We did The October song, scat the cat, Miss Mary Mack, 5 little sheep, hands inside the circle for music today.

We played a color recognition game- find the rainbow.
We did "Miss Mary Mack" a CD story.


Oak Room- Pre- K class

We read " Little Mouse and the Big Red Apple" by A.H. Benjamin

The children used the scissors to work on cutting skills today.  They cut a circle and tree trunk shape to make a tree.  Then we used corks and stamp pads to put apples on their trees. 

We did an opposites sorting activity, a magnetic ABC puzzle and the letter F puzzle today.

We did "The opposite" by Hap Palmer, and used rhythm sticks to the song Row Row Row your boat. We also used the rhythm sticks to tap out syllable's of words.

We talked about what starts with the letter F.


Stay & Play:

We read "If all the animals came inside" by Eric PInder

We painted with a mixture of shaving cream and tempra paint.  The children got to stir thier own paint together.

We did "5 in the bed" using props, and "Little Bunny foo foo" book and song.

We made our own pizza muffins for our snack today.