Activities for Thursday, February 25

Willow room- t/th class

Our question today was "how are you feeling? "
"If you give a pig a pancake?" by Laura Numeroff was our story today.

We did a flannel board rhyme called Kitten and mitten

We used funny brushes with glitter paint today and we had magnetic shapes at the easel.

We had a magnetic game with colored balls and matching them to the right color paint jar. We had letter "J", "K" and L" puzzles out today.

We sang Hap Palmers' Sally the swinging snake
Something special and Put your hands up in the air. We also sang the sunshine song.

We have a new ball and tube tunnel in the room and Styrofoam pieces in the sensory table.

Oak Room;

We read "If I were an astronaut" by Eric Brown

We talked about Mars Facts

We dipped star and moon shapes in glue and pressed them onto paper; then we sprinkled them with glitter.

We had spools with rollers on them at the easels.

We have some snap together blocks and a "U" letter puzzle.

We sang on the count of 5, and Tap your toes and follow me.

Activities for Wednesday, February 24, 2010

Willow room:

We read "Big bears can" by David Bedford

Our question was "Do you have the letter "K" in your name?

We did a big and little game with Clifford, the days of the week and the weather at our second circle.

For art today we rolled prickle balls in glitter paint inside a box.

We had dry erase markers and an eraser at the easel today.

We had color magnetic shapes on a magnet board, Mr. Potato head and button sorting out. We also had a classification board out today.

We sang "Stick to the glue and Jump Jim, Joe.

Maple Room:

We read "Alphabet Rescue" by Audrey Wood today. We painted with trucks today at the table and we had Alphabet stampers and paint at the easels.

We sang The February song", "5 green and speckled frogs", and "the tempo marches on".

We played "What letter is missing?

We have added some cut up tubing and connectors to our sensory table with the PVC pipe.

Oak Room:

We read "Bob's Best Ever Friend" by Simon Bartram (a space story)

We did letter "U" pictures in our journals and we took small groups of children out of the room at a time to play a game called "what's my job? a community helpers guessing game

We did some bean bag balancing activities and sang Over the deep blue sea.

We divided the class in half again today and did music with half while the other half enjoyed the gym. Then we switched places.

Activites for Friday, February 19

Maple room

Alphabet under construction by Denise Fleming was our book today.

We "constructed the first letter of our names" they are posted int eh hallway.

At the easel we painted with brushes.

We added some cut PVC pipe and connectors to our sensory table for building. The children are loving our construction site in our room.

We sang "Can't sit still", little fish, chicken dance, the January song, and Johnny pounds with one hammer.


Oak Room

We read Stars by Jennifer Dussling and The big dipper by Franklin Branley

We put star dots on black paper and then used colored pencils to connect the start to make our own constellations.

We had out some special space activities and our dramatic corner is becoming a great space adventure.

We have new playdough in each of the individual containers for the children to play with their own. We have red and yellow- It will combine to make a new color.

Activities forthe Willow room, February 19, 2010- February 24

Friday

Shape space was the story we read today. We painted with stencils at the easel and we used oil pastels on a shape today. This is part one of a two part process, next time we will paint over our pictures with watercolors.

We had Mr. potato head, puzzles, magnetic letters, bead stringing, and a magnetic puzzle shape book.

We sang bean bag pretend and Hello everybody.

We had fun with our lego table.


Monday-

We read One fish two fish, red fish, blue fish by Dr. Seuss
Our question today was Do you have the letter "J" in your name?

We painted over our oil pastel pictures with watercolors today. They are on display in the hallway.

We had magnetic shapes at the easels to make pictures.

We had magnetic letters out- we tried to spell some words. We had mouse shape up, stringing beads and the magnadoodle. We sang couch potato pokey, stomp and clap, and little fish.


Tuesday:

We did a CD story- called Chameleon's colors by Chisato Tashiro

We had magnetic letters on one side of the easel and magnetic shapes on the other side of the easel.

We had sort the shapes out on the table, let's make a snowman and a shape pegboard.

We sang little fish, list of dances, couch potato pokey

The children are really enjoying the lego table.

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".