Fabulous Fall Preschool Activities Part 2

Last Friday, we made some fall trees to decorate our classroom. For this project we started with some twigs in a clay base. We used tissue paper in fall colors for the leaves. A little bit of glue and a lot of patience later, we had some sweet fall trees. I love how these turned out! It doesn't matter if there are a lot of leaves or just a couple, they are so cute. All the gluing and rolling of the tissue paper gave our fingers a good workout too!

During art this week, we started with a little bit of yellow and red paint. We used rollers to mix the colors. We mixed and mixed until we got a beautiful shade of orange. A couple of black triangles and a smile later......

cheerful jack-o-lanterns!

Fabulous Fall Preschool Activities

Fall is my favorite time of year! This week Kaitlyn's mom brought in a great horned owl for us to look at up close. It was so neat seeing the feathers, eyes and sharp claws. It really helped us understand the owls in the stories we have been reading this week.

After the Thursday class listened to the story Owl Babies, we made pinecone owls using cotton balls and google eyes. It was good exercise for our fingers to pull apart the cotton balls and stuff it into the cracks of the pinecones.

We worked very carefully to give our baby owls lots of feathers.

We were so happy with how they turned out!

We are enjoying the beautiful weather when we play outside for recess! Hope it continues for at least a couple more weeks.

Preschool Activities

This week during preschool, we have been reading the book Go Away, Big Green Monster! On Monday and Tuesday, we printed with marshmallows and decorated our marshmallow monsters on Thursday and Friday. The colors of the monsters were so pretty when we mixed them together!

On Friday, we sang Tommy Thumbs Up, Tommy Thumbs Down. Our favorite part of the song is when we pretend to fall asleep. The alarm goes off and wakes all of us up!

We are learning some signs in preschool. Last week we learned the sign for yellow.

This week we learned the sign for green. Learning the signs is great for language development and it also gives our fingers some exercise! Next week we learn the signs for firefighter and orange.

Grandmother's Glasses

The preschool students have done a great job learning the fingerplay that we say each morning before we eat our snack. We wait until everyone has their snack and then we say.......


These are grandmother's glasses

This is grandmother's hat, this is the way she folds her hands and puts them in her lap.

These are grandfather's glasses, This is grandfather's hat.

This is the way he folds his arms just like that!

Ask your child to say this fingerplay for you at home!! It's very entertaining.

Clean up is always interesting!

This morning we read the book White Rabbits Color Book. It's a story about a rabbit that mixes red, yellow, and blue to make other colors. After we read the book, we got out the fingerpaints and mixed colors ourselves. Whether we used our fingers or paint brushes, the colors were beautiful.

We have liftoff!!

The school year is underway and we have had a great first two weeks. The morning classes have worked on some colorful collages while learning how to use glue. They make a cheerful addition to our classroom.

The afternoon pre-k class has been busy making name necklaces, playing math games, and writing numbers and letters. The biggest excitement in the afternoon is the opportunity to play on the playground with the kindergarten and first grade class.

Next week we will start our Community Helpers theme in pre-k and our Cookie theme in preschool.

Ready to Launch!

The classroom and teachers are anxiously awaiting the arrival of preschool and pre-k students tomorrow for the first day of classes. It's going to be a great school year!