Trinity Preschool Activities for Wednesday, December 7, 2011

Stay & Play:

We made our own individual pretzels and we ate them hot out of the oven. YUM!

Willow Room: MWF class

We asked the children if they have seen a gingerbread boy? We read a story about the Gingerbread Boy

We used puffy paint ( a flour and salt mixture) to "frost" our gingerbread boys. We had holiday stampers at free art.

We practiced our holiday songs.


Maple Room:

We read "The gingerbread boy" by Paul Galdone

We used potato mashers with glitter paint and we put a tree shape frame over our painting.
We sang "SANTA", 5 little trees, and practiced our holiday songs.

We did letter H activities, we played a guessing game with the letters - we put 4 letters on a board and take one away and the children take turns guessing which letter is missing.

We decorated a gingerbread house made of cardboard- it is delicious looking.

We are growing a gingerbread man in water. It starts out small and grows bigger each day. We will measure it and see how big he gets!

Oak Room:

We read "Frosty the snowman"

We worked in our journals on L pictures

We have new white playdough with glitter in it.
We used wood beads and followed sequencing patterns.

We sang "If all the raindrops were lemon drops and gum drops" and we did the bean bag alphabet rag for music today.

We read an "L book. We did a light experiment- we put stencils on construction paper and left them in the sun- we will get sun prints.

Holiday Volunteer Opportunity

We have been collecting food and toys for the local area Salvation Army to distribute to area families in need.

Now it is time to help pack things up! They will be packing toys and food boxes, Tues. Dec. 13, and Wed. Dec. 14. from 9 am to 8 pm. Any amount of time is appreciated.

If you would like to help, please see Mary in the preschool office or email me at the school email. Thank you to everyone who has brought in items.

Trinity Preschool Activities for Tuesday, Dec. 6, 2011

Willow Room: T/TH class

We read "Snowmen at night" by Caralyn Buehner

We made wrapping paper using glitter paint and stampers.

We practiced our songs for our holiday program on the 15th.

We made Christmas trees using corks and glitter paint.

Oak Room:

"Arthur's Perfect Christmas" by Marc Brown was our story today.

We made stockings for our fireplace; they used foam letters to write their names and added snowflakes.

We did a guessing game with the mystery bag.

Our dinosaur grew so so so big last night! We were amazed.

We practiced our songs for our holiday program.

Trinity Preschool Activities for Monday, December 5, 2011

We played in the gym today.

Stay & Play:
we read "Only one neighborhood" by Marc Harshman and Barbara Garrison

We used funny mitts on our hands that had yarn and other materials on them for texture to paint pictures today. We sang
Hi, My name is Joe, and Get ready, Get set, Let's dance for music today.

Willow Room

We read "Mooseltoe" by Margie Palatini

We pained with glitter paint and regular paint using cookie cutters as our stamper to make a holiday picture. We had stencils and glitter paint at the easels.

We are practicing our holiday songs.

Maple Room:

We read "The gingerbread Man" by Karen Schmidt

We made gingerbread people and a special large gingerbread man out of cinnamon and applesauce. We had ginger bread shapes at the easel.

We had 10 paper gingerbread men that we hid around the room and had fun finding them all.

We also went to the oven to get our large gingerbread man out and he was gone! We had to follow clues all around the building- to search for him and finally found him back in our room! The children found this so exciting!

We are learning about the letter H this week.

Oak Room:

We read Arthur's Christmas by Marc Brown

and Ten Naughty Little Monkeys by Suzanne Williams

We worked on our ornaments to hang on our bulletin board. They are fun foam snowman shapes, and we added hats, pom poms for buttons, scarves, glitter glue with sequins and we added the children's picture as the snowman's face.

We measured out dinosaur to see if it got bigger- it did!

We are learning about the letter "L".

Trinity Preschool Activities for Friday, December 2, 2011

For Stay & Play today we added decoration to our Christmas trees we painted the other day. We did the song "list of dances" and did Hap Palmer's Number March movement activity.
We played some games, and did a big puzzle.

Willow Room: MWF

A Merry Bunny Christmas by Rosemary Wells was our story today.

We used corks to make colorful ornaments on green Christmas tree shapes.

We practiced our holiday songs

Maple Room:

We read "Bunny Cakes" by Rosemary Wells

We did snowflake stampers on tissue paper to make wrapping paper for our ornaments.

We had candy cane shapes with red and green glitter paint at the easel.

We practiced our holiday songs

We did letter G this week and today we practiced writing the letter G on dry erase boards.

Oak Room:

We read "Gingerbread Pirates" by Kristin Kladstrup

We painted on foil and then made a print of our creation.

We had green glitter paint with tree stencils at the easel.

We played with bread dough, and we sorted buttons by color

We had a rhyming game we each had a word and had to find our partner with the correct rhyming word.

We asked what words start with the letter K.

Trinity Preschool Activities for Thursday, December 1, 2011

We played outside today- the weather it right at that border where it will be warm enough some days and too cold on others, but if we can get out for a few minutes, we plan to. Please remember coats, hat,s mittens, and scarves. We do not go out if there is snow on the ground so no need for snow pants.

Willow Room:

We read "The mitten" by Jan Brett This is a great story- read it with your child sometime.

We asked the children "Did you wear your mittens today?"

We worked on our ornaments today.

We also practiced our holiday songs for our Christmas program.

We are having a great time in our bakery shop and with our peppermint pink play dough.

Maple Room:

We read "Froggy bakes a cake" by Jonathan London

We mixed a special dough up and cut out cookie shapes for our bakery. We baked them and will decorate them later.

We practiced our holiday songs today.

Oak Room:

We read "Gingerbread Baby" by Jan Brett

We decorated Gingerbread boy shapes using a glue/shaving cream mixture with looks like puffy paint when it dries. We added rick rack, lace and buttons. The children used plastic knives to "frost" their ginger bread men.

We had out lacing cards, and a magnetic community maze.

We had real pine needles at the easel to use as brushes for our painting.

We did a 5 little gingerbread rhyme and we practiced our holiday songs.

We asked the children if their name has a letter "K" in it?

We mixed up yeast bread dough to use at the playdough table.

Trinity Preschool Activities for Wednesday, November 30, 2011

Stay & Play:


We read "All for Pie, Pie for all" by David Martin

We did a group painting project that we will finish on Friday. We used roller brushes, and design stampers.

We did 5 little cookies, I like my hat- with bean bags, a fast version of Head shoulders, knees and toes.

We played some board games in a small group, we did shape matching activities too.


Willow Room:

We read "Honey Cookies" by Meredith Hooper

We made a very special ornament today.

We practiced our Holiday songs for our program.

We had magnets at the easel.

Maple Room:

We read "The little Red Hen" by Paul Galdone

We worked on our ornaments today.
We had doughnut shapes with pastel paint at the easel, After the children painted them, we added paper sprinkles.

We practiced our holiday songs.

We did letter G activities and we compared our story today with one written by another author.

Oak Room: