Trinity Preschool Activities for Tuesday, November 29, 2011

We played in the gym today-


Willow Room: T/TH class

We have our dramatic corner set up as a bakery. The children are loving it!
See our facebook page for pictures of some of our bakery props.

We asked the children: Have you visited a bakery?

We read: "Baker, Baker, Cookie Maker," by Linda Hayward

We are working on our Holiday gifts we are making for our parents, so it is a surprise.

We painted candy canes at the easel to decorate our room.

We are busy learning songs to sing for our parents at our Holiday party.

We have peppermint scented playdough in our room and ribbons and bows in our sensory table.

Oak room:

We read "Froggy bakes a cake" by Jonathan London

We painted on white paper with blue glitter paint. We will cut them into snowflakes to decorate our room.

We practiced the holiday songs we will sing for our Holiday party.

We did the mystery bag filled with items that start with the letter K

Trinity Preschool Activities for Monday, November 28, 2011

We played inside today- in the gym.

Stay & Play:

We read a story called "Wednesday is spaghetti day"- but we changed it to Monday since we had spaghetti today.

We used sparkly paint today.

We sang "Ready set, move" and "Opposites song"
We played a game called "Colorama- a color and shape game.


All of our classroom have "bakery" set up for the dramatic play area. We have many homemade props, cookie sheets, muffin tins, spatulas and we will be making more props with the children also. Each of the children has their own baker hat.

I will do a separate BLOG entry for all of our bakery ideas.

Willow Room- MWF class

We asked the children if they have ever been to a bakery?

We read "Baker, Baker, Cookie Maker" by Linda Hayward

We worked on our Holiday gifts for our parents today so it is a surprise, can't tell you what we made. We had watercolors at the easel.

We will be practicing the Holiday songs we will sing for our parents at our Holiday program in December.

Maple Room:

We read "Bruno the baker" by Lars Klinting

We did marble painting- you put marbles in paint, then roll them back and forth in a box on top of paper.

We had roller brushes with textured stampers at the easel.

We sang the November song, and we started singing our songs for our Holiday program in December.

We are working on the letter G this week. We made Rudolf out of craft sticks.

Oak Room- pre- k class

We read "THe little red hen" by Paul Galdone

We painted plates green and added tissue paper we scrunched up to look like Christmas lights. We will put them all together to make a tree shape on our bulletin board.

We also practiced our Holiday songs.

We are talking about the letter K.

NO SCHOOL week of Nov. 21, 2011

Reminder- We have no school all week the week of November 21, 2011. We have parent conferences (15 minute appointments for you to meet with your child's teacher) for the children in the Willow Room- MWF class, The Maple Room- MWF class and the Pre- K class. (We will do conferences for the Terrific 2's and 3's kids in spring). You may bring your child to your conference with you, but we have no regular school.

Have a great Thanksgiving.

Trinity Preschool Activities for Friday, November 18, 2011

The Willow Room played inside, but the Maple Room and Oak Room kids went to the playground.

Stay & Play: We had bananas, friendship mix, corn muffins and apple cider for snack today.

Willow Room:

Today our story was "The best Thanksgiving ever" by Teddy Slater

We did some turkey rhymes

We made corn muffins to eat with our snack today.

We painted with tempra paint for art today and at the easel we painted candy cane shapes so we can decorate our room.

We did the turkey hop, and little fish for music time.

This is our last day of our farm, we will set up a bakery for December.


The Maple room and Oak room kids join together for activities today, they did outside time together, music as a big group, and they join together for our Thanksgiving feast. The children in the Oak room dress as Pilgrims, and the Children in the Oak room dress as Indians. We put one big long table with everyone at it and share our friendship mix and corn muffins. The children also made butter out of whipping cream. We had apple cider.

Maple Room:

We read Arthur's Thanksgiving" by Marc Brown

We baked corn muffins for our Thanksgiving feast today.

We had dab a dot painters at the easel.

Oak Room:

We read "Clifford's Thanksgiving visit" by Norman Bridwell

We drew pictures on paper and we cut the edges for fringe. We used them as place mats at our feast today.

We had magnetic activities out, Mr. potato head, and alphabet bead stringing.
See above about our Thanksgiving feast with the Maple room.

Painting, then making a print in preschool

Sorry- the pictures popped up in random order.

The children pressed a paper onto their paint to make a print of their creation.














Right before putting the paper on to make a print.














They used a feather to make a design in the paint after they used the rollers to move the paint around on the tray.



Some children used the feather end, some used the pointy end.








After squirting paint on the tray the children used rollers to mix the paint colors.














Pulling the paper up to reveal the print.

Trinity Preschool Activities for Thursday, November 17, 2011

We played in the gym today. Reminder, we have parent conferences for the MWF classes and the Pre-k class on Monday, no regular school on Monday and we are closed the rest of the Thanksgiving week. Enjoy your Thanksgiving Holiday.

Also, we are collecting toys and food for Holiday baskets for the local Salvation Army church to distribute to local families in need. There is a basket in the entrance hall to put new items in; we will get them to their office for distribution. Thank you in advance for helping others!

Willow Room- T/TH class:

We did a prop story: "There was an old lady who swallowed a pie" and we asked the children "Do you like pie?"

We did a turkey rhyme too.

We glued pictures of food onto paper plates. We had shapes at the easel.

We did a group color game with paper turkey feathers, and we did the "Turkey Hop"

We have feeder corn in our sensory table.

We made corn muffins and ate them with our snack today. We also made homemade butter (shake heavy whipping cream in a baby food jar until it separates into butter and liquid)

We will be changing over our dramatic corner into a bakery after Thanksgiving.

Maple Room:

We read "Thanksgiving Mice" by Bethany Roberts

We used sugar water to dip chalk and draw onto paper.

We did Kid Picks music- October song, Itsy Bitsy Spider, Nov. song, Head and Shoulders, Wheels on the Bus, and Sticky Bubble Gum

We played a number recognition game today.


Oak Room:

We read "Arthur's Thanksgiving" by Marc Brown

We glued feathers into pine cones to look like a turkey.


We had out a wooden pizza puzzle, bristle blocks, and an in our community magnetic maze

We asked the children if they have a letter J in their name?

We did wiggle wiggy wiggles, and sally the swinging snack using ribbons as we moved.

Trinity Preschool Activities for Wednesday, November 16, 2011

The Willow room and Maple room classes played in the gym, but the Oak room and Stay & Play went outside.

Stay & Play:

We had a power outage today right when we were making lunch, so we only got a few of the grilled cheese sandwiches made, so we had those and some cold cheese sandwiches. We also had tomato soup.

We read Moo Cow Kaboom by Thacher Hurd

We used fall stamper shapes and glitter paint for our art project.

We played a honey pots memory game, we did a turkey rhyme, sang the BINGO song, and did some bean bag activities.

Willow Room: MWF class

We did the story There was an old lady who swallowed a pie.

We asked the children what kind of pie they like?

We did a gluing activity of gluing pictures on paper dinner plates.

We had magnetic letters at the easel.

We danced with feathers

Maple Room:

We read "Franklin's Thanksgiving" by Paulette Bourgeois

We did a painting project today where the children put paint on trays, then they rolled design rolling pins on the paint. After that, they drew designs with feathers and pressed a paper on top to make a print.

We used rollers and paintbrushes at the easel.

We did the November song, Shake your sillies out, Row, row, row, your boat, wheels on the bus, Play int he band and old MC Donald had a band ( using shakers, bells, and rhythm sticks, and Herman the Worm.

We did letter F activities and played a shape game.

Oak Room

We read "Franklin's Thanksgiving" by Paulette Bourgeois and the letter J book

We worked in our journals drawing J pictures.

At the easel we glued feathers on turkey shapes.

We have new magnetic dress up figures, an animal sorting activity, and a shadow match puzzle (which object's shadow is this)

We did a turkey feather's song, (each child puts a colored feather ont he turkey)
5 elephants finger play
Tap your toes and follow me

We did an experiment today with magnets, we talked about opposite forces, what do magnets stick to? What won't they stick to? Then we had out magnetic activities at the table and the children also took the magnets around the room to see what they would stick to.