We've had 50 days of pre-k!!!

We started something new this month in pre-k. We are going to learn a poem for every month of the year. Above is a picture of our November poem. The children can practice reading the poem with a tiny hand pointer.....

There is also a basket of items that are in the poem that they can use when reciting the poem.

The poem is also written in the big pocket chart so we can practice reading it during group time. I have been amazed at how quickly the children have learned this short poem about the month of November. This activity helps build vocabulary and also gives us the opportunity to work on print concepts, such as reading left to write.

We celebrated our 50th day of pre-k today. We are now officially half way to the 100th day of school! We played some games today to celebrate.

There are 50 marbles in our jar!!

Spicy Turkeys and Handy Work Center Activities

I wish I could have recorded the way the classroom smelled this afternoon when the pre-k students were working on their spicy turkeys! It smelled just like a Thanksgiving dinner. We used paint brushes to brush glue onto the turkey bodies and feathers. Then we used spices in shakers to decorate the turkey. Onion salt, garlic powder, paprika, sage, nutmeg, and parsley flakes were some of the spices we used. We hung them in the hallway so the rest of the school could enjoy the smells!

The handy work center is where the pre-k students go during center time to give their fingers exercise. One of the new activities here is tweezing tiny fruit from a bowl and sorting it into the tea light tray. This activity takes a lot of focus to complete!

Last week we added some Native Americans to our Thanksgiving bulletin board. This week we will be learning more about the story of the first Thanksgiving.

Preschool Turkey Painting

We used the paint rollers to make turkeys in preschool this week.
Everyone started with a litle brown, red, and orange paint.




Then we rolled and rolled and rolled the paint to make the turkey's feathers.

Next we glued the beaks, waddles and eyes on the turkeys.

A turkey is a funny bird,

His head goes wobble, wobble.

And all he knows is just one word,

Gobble, gobble, gobble.

Also this week we painted our hands to make spiders for a

giant spider web on our bulletin board.

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We have been working on identifying lower case letters in pre-k. Yesterday we pretended to cross a river by stepping on stones with letters on them. We each took turns helping our friends cross the river by telling them which letters to go to next. We did a great job identifying the letters and no one fell into the water!

Also in pre-k we have been learning the story of the first Thanksgiving. To work on our fine motor skills, we made some Pilgrim boys and girls and Mayflower ships for our bulletin board.

Spiders, Spiders Everywhere

Spiders are everywhere this week in preschool. In our art projects.............




In the playdough center.............

In the block center..............

And our fingers got a great workout with these popsicle stick spider

webs. We wrapped them up and unwrapped them while we listened to

a fun version of the itsy bitsy spider.

Halloween Parties

Carving jack o'lanterns during our preschool Halloween
parties gave us quite a sensory experience!

Some of the children weren't too sure about reaching

inside the pumpkins. It was cold and it smelled funny!

Monday/Thursday Class

Tuesday/Friday Class

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Happy Halloween!!

One more Fabulous Fall Activity

One more fall activity that we did in preschool that is on display in our classroom are the fall tree suncatchers. For this project we used contact paper, tissue paper leaves, and construction paper trees and owls. The students stuck the trees, leaves and owls to the sticky side of contact paper and then we covered it up with another piece of contact paper. They look great whether the student decided to use a lot of leaves......

or just a few.