Happy Day After St. Patrick's Day!

                          The afternoon class took some fun St. Patrick's Day photo booth pictures!

           The morning students drank all their green milk....even if we weren't too sure about the green.

   Reading with friends in the library center...using pointers to "read" the words.

Today we painted with primary colors on a black and white grid. The children were so careful with their painting.  I love how they all turned out so different.

Black and White Week

 

 We are enjoying seeing the contrast between black and white this week in preschool and TK.

Black and white paint at the easel on black paper. 

 The morning classes painted with black and white paint on black and white paper.....

 We noticed that when we mixed the black and white paint, we made gray.

 The morning classes also made some lovely black and white sticker collages.  The children enjoyed making their designs and some of them even saw pictures in what they created (one little girl said her creation was a pond and another said her's was a unicorn covered in snow).

Transportation Activities

 We have been learning about transportation in the three year old classes.  We painted with cars.....

and made a stoplight we could eat during snack time.

Our Beautiful Alphabet

To celebrate the end of our first alphabet review this year, the TK class made the alphabet out of collage materials we had in our classroom.  It turned out great and we are enjoying it in our library center.  This center has been very popular since our 100th day of school.  The children practice their counting and literacy skills here.  There is also a calendar with numbers they can manipulate.  We have seen lots of pretend school play :)

Blast off!

 Our housekeeping center was transformed to a space station during the long weekend!  The children had fun pretending to fly a space ship and live on the space station today :)

Happy Birthday, Bailey!  We had red juice and napkins today to reinforce the sign and Spanish word for red. 

President's Day TK Activities

 The TK class spent this short week at school learning some facts about former presidents of the United States.  We learned about the American flag, George Washington, Abraham Lincoln, and Barack Obama.  The children impressed me with the knowledge that they already had about some of our country's symbols! 

 Thanks to free printables offered by Mrs. Ricca's Kindergarten, we worked on these portraits for Washington and Lincoln.

Color Study....Red/Rojo

The morning class began our color study this week.  All of our activities and many of our centers are focused on the color red. The red rice in the sensory table smells so good--rice scented with strawberry Kool Aid.

Our art project on Tuesday was red paint with baking soda mixed in.  We painted red hearts.....

     

Next we used eye droppers to add vinegar to our paintings.  Some of us liked how the vinegar smelled and some of us did not.

                                            Using those eyedroppers is great exercise for our fingers!

     We got to watch and listen to the tiny bubbles as the vinegar mixed with the baking soda in the paint.