Trinity Preschool Activities for Friday, Nov. 21, 2014

Oak Room: Pre- K class

Thanksgiving Day - by Anne Rockwell is the story we read about the first Thanksgiving.

We made place mats for our feast. The children drew pictures and snipped the edges.

Maple Room:

We read "Arthur's Thanksgiving" by Marc Brown

We corn muffins and butter (from heavy cream )from scratch to eat at our Thanksgiving Feast .
We had oil pastels and used them on dark colored paper at the easel.

We read "Thanksgiving Day Thanks" by Laura Elliott too.
We played Color and shape Bingo.

The Maple Room kids and the Oak Room kids joined together to have a special Thanksgiving Day feast- the children each brought in food like Cheerios, Gold Fish Crackers, chocolate chips, etc to make a mixture we could all share.  The children in the Maple Room had made costumes and dressed like Native Americans and the children in the Oak Room made costumes and dressed like Pilgrims.  We all sat at the table together.  We had corn muffins, butter we made from heavy cream by shaking it in small jars. We all joined together for music time.

Willow Room:

We read "Thanksgiving at our house" by P.K. Hallinan

We painted as a group across the table as we danced to music.  We made our brushes dance to the music too.

We baked pumpkin muffins to have at snack today and we shook heavy cream in small jars to make home made butter.  We had some of the "Friendship Mix" from the Maple and Oak Rooms for part of our Thanksgiving Day feast in our room with our muffins.

We did "Please pass the peas", We danced with feathers to the song "Shake something" and we did "The turkey Hop" for music today.

Trinity Preschool Activities for Thursday, November 20, 2014

Willow Room:

We read "Thanksgiving at our house" by P.K. Halliman

We painted as a large group to music using fun sparkley colors of paint as we danced around the table.

We had magnetic letters and magnetic sticks at the easel.

We did The turkey hop, Please pass the peas, and we danced with feathers to the song "Shake something"

We made pumpkin muffins from scratch today.  The children helped mix the ingredients and we ate them for snack today along with some other special foods for our "Thanksgiving feast".

We also made our own butter by shaking cream in small bottles until it turned into butter.  We had it on our muffins today.

Oak Room:

We read "One is a feast for a mouse- a thanksgiving tale" by Judy Cox

We made turkeys using pine cones and feathers.

We had small turkey stencils and dab a dot markers at the easel.

We did "This old man" and had pictures of actions with rhyming words and we used bells to do "I know a chicken".

We asked the children "Does your name have the letter K in it?" and graphed the results.

We played ABC Bingo today as a small gorup game.

Maple Room:

We read 10 black dots" by Donald Crews

Each child was given 10 black dots to make their own picture.

Trinity Preschool Activities for Wednesday, November 19, 2014

Willow Room:

We read "Thanksgiving FEast" by Quinlin B Lee

We used cookie cutters and paint to make wrapping paper for presents.

We had magnetic 3 D shapes at the easel.

We did a 5 little turkeys sitting on a fence rhyme.

We did "Turkey pokey", "Travelin' Turkeys" and "Over the deep blue sea" for music today.

Maple Room:

We read 5 silly turkeys

We did marble painting at the table with blue and purple paint.

We had water colors at the easel.

We skyped today with someone living in Nairobi,  Africa.  It was exciting to hear about the animals they have there.

Oak Room:
"Many ways" by Shelley Rotner, a book about family traditions and "Thanks for Thanksgiving" by Julie Markes

We read the letter K book.

We played an ABC Bingo game- the kids loved it.

We worked in our journal notebooks on the letter K - we practiced writing it, wrote words that start with the letter K and drew pictures.

We did "The turkey hop", and "Can you dance?" (using just our eyes, nose, lips, etc.)

Stay and Play:  We read "Don't worry Douglas!" by David Melling

We drew with markers on paper towel, coffee filters, and paper.  Then we applied water with a brush over each to see what happened.  We compared the differences in how the water absorbed and the effect of the water on the markers on each type of paper.

We did "You gotta sing" and "Inky Dinky Doo" for music time.

Trinity Preschool Activities for Tuesday, November 18, 2014

Willow Room:

We read "Thanksgiving feast" by Quinlin B Lee

We made wrapping paper for our presents for our parents by dipping holiday cookie cutters in paint and pressing them down onto white paper.

We had magnetic 3 D shapes at the easel.

We did a 5 little turkeys sitting on a fence rhyme

We have ground up corn husks in our sensory table.

We did "Travelling Turkeys", "The turkey Pokey" and "Over the deep blue sea" for music time.

Oak Room:

We read "Run turkey, run" by Diane Mayr and "Who will carve the turkey this Thanksgiving?" by Jerry Pallotta

We painted with feed corn on the cob.  We will turn them into a turkey shape.

We did "Deep in the jungle" , Pass the turkey" and "One little pumpkin" ( a song about happy, sad, angry)

Trinity Preschool Activities for Monday, November 17, 2014

We read "Countdown to Thanksgiving" by Jodi Huelin and "5 silly turkeys"" by Salina Yoon

We cut out feather shapes, strung beads on a string with the feather shapes.  The children told us what they were thankful for and made a "I am thankful necklace".

We made our pilgrim "bibs" by putting fall stampers on them at the easel.

We did "Come and buy a pumpkin" and "Couch potato pokey" for music today.

Maple Room:

We read "Turkey Trouble" by Wendi Salvano

We made handprint turkeys.  The children painted their hands with various colors of paint.  Brown on their palm and thumb, and red, yellow, green, etc. on their fingers.  Then they pressed it onto paper to make a turkey.

We had corks and dab a dot painters at the easel.

We did letter P activities, learned the song, the motion that goes with the letter P .  Read the book and did the alphabet monster box of items that start with the letter P.

We did "The November song,", and "Turkey feathers" (using letters)

Willow Room:

We read "If you give a cat a cupcake" by Laura Numeroff

We painted a cup cake shape paper using a mixture of shaving cream and glue.  Then we added confetti to look like sprinkles.

We did a group art project where we painted a big sheet of paper green using various painting tools.  We will turn it into a big Christmas tree for our classroom.

We did a counting cookies rhyme.

We did "Late last night", "Can't sit still", and "Put your hands up in the air" for  music time.

Stay and play:

We read "Bear says Thanks" by Karma Wilson WE also read Bear Wants more" by Karma Wilson Then we talked about the books and made comparisons and contrasts between them.

We did an experiment with water colors, baking soda and vinegar.  Each child got a tray with baking soda sprinkled on it.  Then we gave them water colors made with vinegar and eye droppers to drip the water colors on top.  It bubbled and was fun to watch the reaction.

We did "Picking leaves" (a number recognition game), Hide turkey hide, and "If you are thankful" for music time.

Trinity Preschool Activities for Friday, November 14, 2014

Willow Room: MWF class

We read "Sneeze big bear, sneeze! by Maureen WRight

We painted with dish scrubbers and tempra paint.

We had chalk boards and colored chalk at the easel.

We did "clap if you want to", 2 little blackbirds" and Turkey hop" for music today.

We did a 5 little turkeys rhyme and the teacher wore a turkey finger puppet on each finger!

We traced each child's hand and arm and so it looked like a tree.  The children added colored leaves with glue.

Oak Room:

We read "10 little rubber ducks" by Eric Carle

We painted a water scene on a large piece of paper and gave the children each 10 yellow paper ducks to add.  They had markers to draw faces on the ducks if they wanted.  They glued the ducks to their paper to illustrate the story.

We made a list of words that begin with the letter J, we wrote the letter, and words on dry erase boards.

We did "The bean bag alphabet rag", and Turkey hop for music time.

Maple Room:

We read "Franklin's Thanksgiving" by Paulette Bourgeois

We used stampers and paint on grocery bags that we cut to make a vest.  The children will wear them for our Thanksgiving feast.

We had dab a dot painters and turkey stencils at the easel.

We did letter I activities.

Stay and Play:

We read "Grisswold" by Syd Hoff

We did a group painting project to various tempos of music. The children had paint brushes and walked around the table to various styles of music.

We did a partner switch at music time.  When the music stopped, we do a specified action and then switch partners.

We did some bear rhymes while each child was holding a bear.

We played with cars and a large rug tube.

Trinity Preschool Activities for Thursday, November 13, 2014

Oak Room:

We read "The grouch ladybug" by Eric Carle and we also read "Rhyming dust bunnies" by Jan Thomas

We made a clock to illustrate the grouchy lady bug story. The children cut out a circle shape, stamped numbers on it, and a lady bug stamp shape.  Painted them with water colors.

We had a lady bug number matching game out today and we played "ring around the rosie" using different actions.

We did a graph about "Does your name have he letter J in it?"

Willow Room: Terrific 2's and 3's class

We read "Stuck in the mud" by Jane Clarke

We painted using dish scrubbers and tempra paint.

We had chalk boards and chalk at the easels.

We did "Clap if you want to", 2 little blackbirds" and "The turkey hop" for music today.

We did a 5 little turkeys rhyme with the teacher wearing a turkey finger puppet on each finger.

We drew each child's hand and arm to make a tree and they glued on paper leaves.

Maple Room:

We read "Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day"

We played a game with the alphabet mystery box:  Each child pulled out an object from the box and had to figure out what the beginning letter for that item is.

We did "The November song", "Face the facts" and "There is a dog in school" for music time.