Community Playthings article about "screening out"

https://www.facebook.com/pages/Trinity-Preschool-Mount-Prospect/109801952436447


The above link will take you to a good article about the importance of limiting screen time for young children and the way it effects interpersonal skills.  I also added some of my comments to the information.

Trinity Preschool Activities for Monday, October 6, 2014

Oak Room- Pre K class

We read "Parts" by Tedd Arnold

We did our letter E chart.

We made the cover for our "All about Me books" by rolling golf balls dipped in paint back and forth in a box with our cover papers in it.

We will be working on our All about me books this week.

We did "Today is Monday", "Play the band" using instruments, and "Ugly Germs" for music today.

Maple Room- MWF class

We read "The day the Crayons Quit" by Drew Daywalt

We used eye droppers to drip water colors onto paper towels.  The colors blended to make new colors too.  We will make leaves out of the dried projects.

We had crayons and paper at the easel.

We also read a new book called "Mix it up" by Herve Tullet ( all about primary and secondary colors)

We did "The October song", "5 pumpkins smiling at me", "down around the corner at the pumpkin patch" for music today.

Willow Room- MWF class

We read "The little rabbit who like to say Moo" by Jonathan Allen

We painted ducks using brushes with yellow and brown tempra paint.

We dipped chalk into a sugar mixture which intensifies the colors and the children drew on paper at the easel today.

We did a rhyme "Here is the bunny" and an "apple rhyme and the apple song today.

We did "Put your finger on, 5 little ducks went out to play, and "you're face will surely show it" for music today.

Stay and Play:

We read "Extra Yarn" by Mac Barnett

We used textured rollers in paint today for art.

We did Brown Bear, Brown Bear and Tommy Thumb for music time.

We also played Uno as a small group number and color game today.

Trinity Preschool Activities for Friday, October 3, 2014

Willow Room- MWF class

"Who said Meow?" by Maria Polushkin

We asked the children today "Which farm animal sound can you make?"

We painted using flip flop painters that have designs on the bottom

We colored paper at the easel with oil pastel crayons.

We did can you leap like a frog?, the cool bear hunt, and 2 little black birds for music today.

We did a rhyme to the tune of BINGO, using farm animal names: Piggy, Chick, Horse, Doggy, and Sheep.

Maple Room: MWF class

We read "Brown Bear, Brown Bear" by Eric Carle

We did a 3 D art project today. We rolled paper towel cardboard tubes back and forth across paint on a tray.

We had red, yellow and blue paint at the easel with various kinds of rollers.

We have been talking about Primary and secondary colors.

We did an ice cube melting experiment - we put a red ice cube, and a yellow ice cube in a cup; a red and a blue ice cube in a cup, and a yellow and a blue ice cube in a cup.  Then when they melted, we looked to see what color it had become.  We put a paper towel in the cup to show the new color.

We played a game of colors, "Abracadabra, which color did I take from you?"

We also read "Little Blue, Little Yellow" by Loe Lionni

We did The October song, and Brown Bear, Brown Bear, with the children acting out the parts to the song. for music time today.

Oak Room- Pre- K class

We read "Rain" by M. Stojic (it is a book about the 5 senses and how you can use each sense with rain)

We also read "My Five Senses" by Margaret Miller

We painted a picture with paint and brushes on a slanted easel.  Then when we were done, we sprayed the paper with water to see the design run.

We did a 5 senses chant.
We talked about words that start with the letter D.

We did the 5 senses song, and "Leaky Umbrella" using maracas

Stay and Play:

We read "Danny the Dinosaur" by Syd Hoff

We put glue on a stencil design and filled it in with mosaic materials

We did "Sally the swinging snake" using scarves to dance along
We also did The freeze dance and tried out different actions, like jump, march, etc.

Trinity preschool activities for Thursday, October 2, 2014

Willow room: terrific 2's and 3's class

We read Cock a doodle doo, a barnyard hullabaloo by Giles Andrea

We painted with animals tampers on light green paper to resemble a farm.

We painted with ice cubes made from paint at the easel on paper shaped like farmer overalls.

Our dramatic corner is a farm now.

We have hay in our sensory table

We did old McDonald had a farm, using a puppet mitt.

We did Bingo, old mc Donald had a farm, and come and join into the game for music.

Oak room: pre k room

We read hand, hand, fingers, thumb by Al Perkins

We are talking about the sense of touch.

We had an activity where we put various items in socks and the children tried to guess what it was by feeling it only.

We made sand designs at art.  The children spread glue inside a stencil shape, and they sprinkled sand on the glue.  The shape is there made out of sand.  

We used our finger to dip in paint and make finger prints on paper.

We played a small group game where the children reached into a box and pulled out an object, then they put it on the alphabet mat for the letter it started with.

We did the five finger band, where we played pretend instruments, and funny fall animals, a silly song about beginning letter sounds.

Maple Room: Thursday class

We read Llama, llama misses mama by Anna Dewey and we read Elmer

We did a name writing activity.

We did a patterning activity

We played the number card game Uno.

Trinity Preschool Activities for Wednesday, October 1, 2014

Maple Room: MWF Class

We read "mouse paint" by Ellen Stoll Walsh

We did color mixing today on white paper with primary colors.  We mixed red, yellow, and blue to make secondary colors.

We painted with red, yellow and blue water colors on white paper.

We did a color mixing experiment. Then the children got to each try it on their own.

We did the October song, and the months song today.

We did a little mouse color rhyme.

We also read " my crayons talk" by Patricia Hubbard

Willow Room: MWF class

We are starting our farm unit

We read "cock a doodle doo, a barnyard hullabaloo " by Giles Andreae

We asked "Have you ever visited a farm?"

We painted with animals tampers on green paper to resemble a farm

We painted with ice cubes made out of paint on paper shaped like farmers overalls.

We did the old McDonald rhyme with a farm puppet mitt.

We made our dramatic play area to be a farm.

We have hay in our sensory table.

We did animal action, b I n g o, and hello everybody, yes indeed for music time today.

Oak room: pre k class

We had a special visitor to our class today, a nurse from Alexian Brothers Hospital who did a healthy kids program.  

We worked on our letter D journals.

We put sand in our paint at the easel today.

We are talking about the sense of touch.

We did "sing a song of senses", and "the little fish" for music time.

Stay and play:

We read "curious George's Dinosaur Discovery" by Margaret and HA Reys 

We made sparkley designs for art.  We dipped different shape containers, square, rectangle, and round into sparkly glitter paint to make shape designs.

We did the shape family rhyme, and we did "shapes" , a movement activity about shapes.

We played a color and shape Bingo game.

Trinity Preschool Activities for Tuesday, September 30, 2014

Willow Room- T/TH class

We told the story of the little red house with no windows and no doors and a start inside.  It turns out at the end to be an apple.

We used real apples to make apple prints on paper.  We used paint and when you press the apple that is cut in half crosswise, it makes a star shape print.

We had contact paper at the easel and the children stuck yarn pieces to the sticky paper.

We did Mr. Apple worm rhyme, and walking shoes and pass the bean bag for music today.

Oak Room: Pre- K class

We read "Ten Apples up on top!" by Theo Lesieg and we also read "Little MOuse and the Big Red Apple" by A. H . Benjamin

We gave the children a long piece of paper and they drew a picture of themselves at the bottom and then used an apple shape sponge to add apples up on top ( like the story).  At the top of the page we had a paper that said " I have _________apples up on top" and we counted how many apples they stamped on the paper and wrote that number.

We did "I like my hat", "On the count of Five" and "Sing a song of senses" for music.

We did an apple taste test.  We had a graph and each child tasted a red, green and yellow apple and chose which one they liked best.  We then counted how many liked each and used the gragh to talk about more or less.

We put bean bags piled on our heads to see how many we could pile like the story.

we are learning about our sense of taste this week.

Trinity Preschool Activities for Monday, September 29, 2014

Maple Room: MWF class:

We read "A new house for mouse" by Petr Horacek

We did marble painting with red and yellow paint.  We put marbles in paint and then onto paper that was in a box.  The children rolled the box back and forth to move the paint around on the paper.

We had rollers at the easel to use for painting.

We did the song "A P P L E" to the tune of Bingo, and we did the chicken dance, 5 little apples rhyme  and tommy thumb for music.

We talked about seasons, we read a Knowledge quest book (books designed to align with the common core learning standards) called "Skip through the seasons".

We have beans with pumpkins in the sensory table.

Willow Room: MWF class

We told the verbal story about the little red house with no windows and no doors and a star inside. (It turns out to be an apple)

We asked the children "Have you ever seen a house with no windows and no doors"

We cut a real apple in half and found the star inside.  Then we used it to paint apple prints.

We had contact paper at the easel and the children attached yarn to the sticky side.

We did pass the bean bag, and walking shoes for music time.

We did "Mr. Apple worm" rhyme

Oak Room: Pre- K class

We did a flannel board story about the apple house with no windows and no doors and a star inside.

We read "Apple Trouble" by Ragnhild Scamell

We cut up our apples we brought in to make applesauce, which we ate for snack today.

We had apple stencils at the easel.

We did our letter D chart.  We also graphed the apples the children brought in by color.  We talked about the different things we can make with an apple.  We are learning about our sense of taste.

We did "Way up high in the apple tree" and "List of dances" for music today.

Stay and Play:  We read "The Best Gift of all" by Jonathan Emmett

We painted on plexiglass and then made a print of our painting.

We did list of dances, couch potato pokey, underneath the broomstick, and pass the apple for music today.