11-29 : Winter/Christmas theme

I thought you might like to see a picture of our morning board.  This is where we practice our shape, color, number, letter, and weather observation.  S is for Star and Snowman.

 We went to the table and practiced our letter S.  Now that the routine is down, we will be working more and more on our letter recognition and writing skills.

 For Art we made beautiful snowy snowman pictures.  They turned out just beautifully!

 This is the book we read in storytime.  It's delightful!

 Upstairs in the classroom the room was transformed for this theme.  Each month, I clean everything and bring out all new centers and sensory bins that relate to the theme.

 We played in fake snow at the table - shaving cream!

 Afterwards we had a snowball fight with balloons!  :)  Fun!

11-15 - Farm theme

I is for Apple!.  The children had so much fun today!

We had an apple tasting of different colors of apples and the children graphed the color they liked best.

We talked about all the things apples can be made into and tasted some of them - applesauce, apple juice, etc.

We all learned about Johnny appleseed today and made pot hats.

We have lots of fun sensory bins for them to explore.

In our barn we have buckets of parents and baby animals that they get to take care of.  
In the background is Bessie our cow that the kids get to milk.

Then in individual instruction the children painted apple trees.  I love them!

11-22 - Stone soup day - Farm Theme

This is by far my favorite day in all of the curriculum.  If you have never heard of the book, "stone soup" then you should look it up.  It is wonderful!  It teaching primarily about sharing.  It is the perfect theme for Thanksgiving.  I love it.  Each child shares one item that is added to the soup.  It's seriously magical.  I love it!  Here are some pictures of our day.

 We always start outside to get our wiggles out.  This day I introduced our bubble tub.  It is great because they can't spill it!  Yay!  and there are three wands so more kids can play.

 The playground is such a blessing.  It is so fun for them to get some exercise and fresh air.

 Here is our soup after we had all added the ingredients.  I didn't get many pictures because we were too busy.

 This is the mini book that we colored.

 Our beautiful table setting awaits!

11-17 - Farm Theme

I apologize that it has taken me this long to update the blog but I'm afraid I was dealing with some technical issues but it seems that we are up and running again so I'll be doing some quick catch up.  

This was a continuation of our A is for Apple theme.  The children started their day outside, then we had circle and music time and then we came to the table for a craft.  We had been discussing different colors of apples and which they liked best.  We made an apple collage with red, green, and yellow.  

 They had some yummy muffins at snack time.  Thank-you so much to all of you who continually send snacks on your assigned days.  It makes things run so smoothly and your children feel so proud to hand out the snacks and we make sure to thank them personally.

 In individual instruction we finished our fall leaf trees.  I think that they turned out beautifully!

 Centers is always a favorite!