9-8: ocean/summertime theme (last day)

Today we ended our Ocean and Summertime theme.  It was such a fun day!  I'm just so glad we didn't get rained on.  Here are some pictures of our day.  

Today was so nice we decided to play with playdough outside.  

I am starting to teach them how to use scissors.  My favorite way to do that is with playdough.  You might help them practice at home.  

We went inside for circle/music time and we washed our hands.  Then we went to the kitchen and mixed up blue cupcakes to celebrate the last day of studying blue!

While they were baking we made jewel J's.  

They painted on the glue and then stuck on the jewels.  

I love how they turned out!

Then we went upstairs for centers. In individual instruction we assembled the jellyfish we painted last week.  

I put out some additional and new centers. 

I added a new sensory box too.  

There are blocks in the bins, books to read and this is where we review our schedule.  

We went downstairs to eat our beautiful cupcakes!

It was a wonderful day!  

9-6: ocean/summertime theme (last week)

This is the last week of our Ocean Summertime theme.  Today was all about the letter j.  J is for jellyfish.  Here are a few of our activities.  I can't take pictures of everything but here's a few of our fun times together today.  

This is part of our morning circle time.  We sing songs and read stories that relate to our letter of the week.  

We did a jumping contest.  They loved it.  

We did an art project - we painted jellyfish.  We will finish it next time.  

They did a great job!

We played with blue playdough.  

We went upstairs for centers.  In individual instruction we did do-a-dots. 

We are going to miss this theme, it's so much fun!

9-1: summertime/ocean theme

We had a great Thursday.  I am amazed that a month has passed already.  Your kids are doing great!  

Our outside time is pretty precious.  They are all getting along so well!

After circle time we started our art project.  We made blue whales today. 

Upstairs for centers.  

Water themed sensory buckets.  

In individual instruction we stamped on the letter W with ocean themed stamps.  

I try to think outside the box as far as letter recognition is concerned.  I try to have different ways for them to experience each letter - making it with stamps, playdough, cookies, etc.  

Also in individual instruction we worked on ABA patterns.  They had to make a second ice cream cone with matching colored scoops of ice cream.  They loved it!

Our last project was making the puppet, Walter Walrus.  

See you all next week!