Activities for Thursday, February 18, 2010

Willow room: T/Th class

We read "shape space" by Cathryn Falwell

We painted using stencils at the easels.

We used special oil pastels on a shape today. Today is the first part of the process. Next class time we will be painting over our oil pastels pictures.

We made shape pictures like our story at free art today. We used a shape sorter and colors, and on our vocabulary classification board, we sorted shapes.

We did "bean bag pretend" and "hello everybody" at music.

We had fun with the lego table in the room.

Oak Room:

We read 2 books today; "Bamboo and friends- the moon" by Felicia Law and "Walking on the moon" by Deborah Shearer we talked about moon craters and moon characteristics.

We made our own moons with craters- we glued objects to a cardboard circle and covered it with foil to look like the moon.

We played the space bingo game again today. we had some ABC building blocks and the letter "t" puzzle out.

We did "Jump to Jupiter" an action song with different actions for each planet.

We had a scale out and we had pretend moon rocks and earth rocks to compare the difference.

Oak room- Wednesday, February 17

Oak room:

We read "There was a bold lady who wanted a star" by Charise Mericle Harper

The children are enjoying our space center set up in the dramatic corner.

We divided the children up into small groups and played a space word bingo game. We also divided them up into two groups and took half to the gym while the rest stayed in the room and did music; then we switched places. It helps to have a smaller group both for music and gym time.

For music we did our planet song, where is the astronaut, and the freeze dance.

We are talking about the letter "T" and the children made "T" pictures in their journals.

Activities for Wednesday, February 17, 2010

Willow Room- MWF

We read "The Chameleon Colors Book " by Gene Yates. We are talking about the letter "I" this week. We played a color bear game where we gave each of the children a color bear and they found something of the same color in the room.

For art, we used watercolors to make rainbow colors. At free art we had fun with glue today.

We sorted special color foods into color bowls, we had a magnadoodle out, and a shape find and match box.

We sang Jump Jim Joe, a dog in school, and baby fish

We have our play kitchen back and we have pink playdough.

Maple Room

We read "Building a house" by Byron Barton

We did a group painting project which we will turn into skyscrapers for our bulletin board.

We had rollers at the easels to paint with today.

We sang "The February song", "winter song", "Construction song"," On the count of 5", and "shake, rattle, rock" and we used rhythm sticks.

We are talking about the letter "M".

Activities for Tuesday, February 16, 2010

Willow room: T/TH class

We sorted our name tags by color. We read "The Chameleon Colors Book" by Gene Yates

We played a color game today, we gave each of the children a color bear and they had to find something in the room that matched the bears colors.

We did a watercolor picture today making rainbow colors

We had colored shapes at the easels.

We had out Mr. Potato head, some color mice for matching the right cheese to the mouse. and a shape puzzle book.

We sang Jump Jim Joe, Dog in School, and Put your finger on.

We changed our dramatic corner back into kitchen and doll play. We added a lego table to our classroom block area.

Oak Room:

We are beginning our unit on space and today we read "There's no place like space"

The children cut out rocket shapes and painted them with watercolors. We will add the pictures we took of the children wearing their "space helmets" and put them on our bulletin board.

We sang The planets revolve around the sun, dancing with ribbons, and floating astronaut.

We are talking about the letter "T" this week.

We changed our dramatic play area into a space . We have rockets, space helmets, astronaut back rocket launchers and more.

Activities for Wednesday, February 10, 2010

Willow Room- MWF class

Our story today was "I need a Valentine" by Harriet Ziefert and we are talking about letter H things.

We made Valentine wreaths out of paper plates and stick on hearts. We had dots on hearts at the easel.

We had "G" and "H" puzzles out today, Velcro dolls with clothes, and a classification board to sort objects.

We sang Walking shoes, and I'm a little snowman for music.

We brought some snow in and dripped water colors onto the snow to make rainbow snow.

We are having fun with our post office.

Maple Room:

We read "Tortoise brings the mail" by Dee Lillegard

We had heart shape stampers with paint: to make our Valentine Bags

We had colored construction paper and crumpled foil and paint at the easels.

We sang the February song, H-E-A-R-T (Like Bingo), Shake your sillies out, The wiggle song, Freeze Dance, and Tommy Thumb.
We worked on letter "M" activities, some Valentine rhymes, and a shape recognition game.

Oak Room:

"Quiet, there's a canary in the library" was our story today to go along with our library fun.

We worked on pictures of things that begin with the letter "S" in our journals.

We divided the children up into two groups and kept 1/2 in the room to do music including Musical chairs and the other 1/2 got to be in the gym. Then we switched places, so everyone got to spend time in music and gym.

Activities for Tue. February 9, 2010

Willow Room:T/Th class

We read "Never Mail an Elephant" by Mike Thaler

We are talking about the color brown and our question today was "Are you wearing brown today/"

We are decorating our Valentine's day bags today using "loveable" stampers and ink pads.

We painted hearts using purple and pink paint at the easel.

We had some puzzles, color maze, sort the different size hearts, alphabet beads for stringing, shape match and more at the tables.

We sang Tommy Thumb, List of dances, love grows one by one.

We did some Valentine rhymes at circle time too.



Oak Room:

We read "Arthur's Valentine" by Marc Brown

We made "love bugs" we cut out a bug shape and a circle shape. We used cork to stamp a print of circles onto the bug to make it look like a lady bug with a special Valentine message.

We played a pass the bean bag game at music time.

We are talking about the letter "S"

Activities for Monday, February 8, 2010

Willow Room- MWF class

We are still talking about post office this week and our dramatic corner is a post office. We read "Never mail an Elephant" by Mike Thaler. We also did some Valentine's Day rhymes.

We are talking about he letter H this week so we asked do you have the letter "H" in your name?

We decorated our bags for our Valentines! We had heart shape paper at the easels and we used paint to decorate them.

We had some puzzles, shape sorters, magnadoodle and a heart shape matching game out today.

We sang "Hands are for clapping", "Tommy Thumb", and "Cool bear hunt'

The children really enjoyed the doll house today.

Maple Room

We read "The giant hug" by Sandra Horning

We made prints from celery. If you cut the bottom off a bunch of celery, the print will look like a flower. We used red and pink paint.

We had heart shapes with water colors at the easel.

We did some Valentine rhymes and Mailman rhymes.

We are working on the letter "M" this week.

Oak Room:

We read "Froggy's First Kiss" by Jonathan London

We made our Valentine bags by using stampers with heart shapes.

We sang "Come and buy a Valentine", ABC sounds song (A phonics song), and "Put your finger on".

We are learning about he letter "S" this week.