Trinity Preschool Activities for Wednesday, February 27, 2013

Willow Room: MWF class

We read Jeremiah Jellyfish flies high" by John Fardell

We asked the children "Have you ever seen a jelly fish?
We glued white circle shapes and wax paper strips to make a jelly fish.
We did Jelly fish for the letter J.
We painted jelly bean shapes at the easel with watercolors.

We did "Lettercise", "Clap if you want to" and "Jump up, turn around" for music time.

We introduced the letter J and J items today.

We did a science experiment to see what would float and what would sink.


Maple Room: Morning class

We are doing a whole series on the 3 little pigs and today we read the "Three little pigs" as retold and illustrated by Yuri Salzman

We made our house of bricks today.  We sponge painted on a tri fold display board to make our house of bricks.

We had house shapes at the easel with red squares of paper to look like bricks.

We did "The February song", "The mitten song", "Two little blackbirds" and "Tap your toe" for music time.

We did letter S activities and we skyped with someone in Iowa.

Maple Room- Afternoon class

We did Letter I and Letter J alphabet books today
At the art table we did our letter I and Letter J pages for our alphabet books
We did Chicka chicka boom boom trees with alphabet letter stampers at the easel.

We did the chicka chicka boom boom book on CD by Bill Mrtin

We also played a chicka chicka boom boom game and had the tree out with letters to attach to it.

Oak Room:

We read "Space cats" by Doug Cushman and "moonbear's pet" by Frank Asch

We worked on our alphabet journals, we drew pictures of things that start with the letter V and wrote the letter V. 

We played a space bingo game

We did "Old Mc DOnald had a band, cool bear hunt, and the planet song for music today.

We read a book about the letter V and read the Earth book about our planet.

Stay & Play:

We read "Franklin's School Day" by Paulette Bourgeois

We painted using powdered paint and water.  We dipped the brush in water, then in powdered paint and then onto our paper.  The colors are vibrant, and we have to remember to do it int he right order. We used our special home made table top easels.

We did Cool bear hunt, and a color snowman rhyme for music time.

We are loving the space center in the Oak classroom
We watched a video of a real space launch.