Trinity Preschool Activities for Wednesday, October 9, 2013

Oak Room:  pre-k 5 day class

We read "The shape of me and other stuff" by Dr. Seuss and the letter E book.  WE also read "Rain brings frogs, a little book of hope"

We worked in our journals on letter E pictures and words.

We did "She'll be coming around the mountain" and "I can dance" (sit still, stand up and dance)

We are weighing and measuring how tall the children are. 

We used inch cubes to measure how long things were, a line on our rug, our feet, etc.


Maple Room- MWF class

We read "A color of his own" by Leo Lionni and "Pete the cat, I love my white shoes" by Eric Litwin

We made glue sun catchers.  The children squeezed glue onto wax paper and add a few drops of food color.  hen they used a toothpick to swirl the colors around.  We used the primary colors, red, yellow and blue.

Swirling the colors together in the glue to see what colors you can make.

The children squeezed glue onto wax paper, and then use eye droppers to add color.

Color swirling was fun!

We did "The October song", "Wiggy, Wiggy, Wiggles", and "Toe, Leg, Knee" for music time.

We did scat the cat- a color rhyme, we did a color mixing experiment, and we practiced writing our names.


Willow Room- MWF class

We read two stories today.  "Can you find my breakfast?" a felt board story and "My five senses" by Aliki

We painted with Jello for the sense of smell and watercolors for our sense of sight.

We had magnetic face pieces at the easel.

We listened to animal sounds and tried to guess which animal was making the sound.  We asked the children "What is your favorite animal?

We did "Good day" by Carole Peterson (animals sounds song), "Animals on the farm" we did it to the tune of The wheels on the bus.  and "When I was a little fish" by Susan Salidor

Stay & Play:

We read "Milo and the magical stones" by Marcus Pfister

we did "Sticky bubble gum" and "Tap your toe and follow me" for music time.

We painted with cars and trucks on big sheets of paper.  This activity uses large arm movements.

Car and truck painting on large sheets of paper - fun designs are made by the various kinds of tires.

Trinity Preschool Activities for Thursday, January 17, 2013

Willow Room- Terrific 2's and 3's class

We read "All you need for a snowman" by Alice Shertle
We asked the children "Are you wearing the color red today?"

We used red brushes to paint with different red paints on heart, apple, lady bug and strawberry shapes.  
We painted a ball shape with rollers and the color red at the easel.

We did "I can make a snowman", "Snowflake, snowflake", and "Everybody has a face" for music time.

We did 5 little snowman rhyme 

We started our color train, bring in items that are red to attach to our color train.

We are having fun in our grocery store.

Maple Room: Thursday class

We worked on measurement using mittens as the measuring tool. We taped 20 mittens to the floor along the rainbow rug and we measured how many mittens long we were, we measured some toys and we did the standing long jump with it to see how many mittens far we could jump. 

We read the stories, Elmer and Wilbur by David McKee and Emma Kate by Patricia Polacco

We practiced writing our names,  and we did a number recognition game with mittens, We handed out mittens with numbers 1-9 written on them and then we put them on the board in the correct order.  

We acted out the 5 little snowmen, sang the alphabet sounds song and I'm a little snowman.

Oak Room- Pre- K class

We read "The bears in the bed and the great big storm" by Paul Bright

We used white paint and spools to create a snowy scene.  We had spools attached to handles as rollers to use at the easel.

We brought in an incline ramp with blocks that are movable to create various pathways for the marble to travel.  We had a magnetic shapes maze and some wooden sorting puzzles with pegs to use today.

We did a sing a long book called the Twelve days of winter", very cute.  To the tune of twelve days of Christmas, but winter based and school based.

We also did "I can dance" a fast slow movement.

Do you have the letter P in your name?