Shades of Orange

We painted with shades of orange paint in preschool this morning. Some of us were very careful to keep each orange shade separate while others mixed and mixed the oranges. We printed black pumpkins on our finished paintings.

More TK Activities

Now that I am finally getting pictures uploaded again, here are a couple more. Last week during our Community Helpers theme, we flipped foam "cookies" with spatulas. We matched the letters on the back of the cookies to the cookies on our paper cookie sheets. This week we have been learning more about nocturnal animals. Following a discussion on the book, Nightime, a nonfiction book about nocturnal animals, we made these paintings. The first step was to color the eyes of the nocturnal animals and the letters on the paper with a yellow crayon. Then we brushed black liquid watercolor onto our papers. The yellow crayon resisted the paint, causing the eyes to appear to be glowing.

Community Helpers

We ended our Community Helpers theme last week, but I could not resist sharing some of the pictures of the TK class pretending to be bakers. We made these fun baker's hats with old bulletin board border and whte plastic bags.

Ducks and Chalk Drawings

A big thank you to Bayley's mom and grandpa for bringing some ducks in for us to touch and observe. They were so soft and cute! We celebrated the ducks by singing the Five Little Ducks.

Chalk drawings made on the playground during afternoon recess. I love all the details!

Peanut Butter and Jelly

Last week the Tuesday class painted peanut butter and jelly sandwiches. We were short a few students that day, so everyone got to paint a slice of bread with "peanut butter" and "jelly" We started by painting the peanut butter........

and then the jelly. Grape jelly, of course.

After we painted, we put our two slices of bread together and rubbed.

Carefully pulled it apart............

Peanut butter and jelly sandwiches!

Beach Day!

We had a blast on Beach Day! Thank you to Dorothy for all her wonderful "beachy" ideas!

Rhyming Dust Bunnies

We are so glad that Dorothy introduced us to the fun rhyming book, The Rhyming Dust Bunnies! It has quickly become one of our favorites in the afternoon. The dust bunnies are a group of friends that like to rhyme. Except Bob. He is always off task with his rhyming and looking out for brooms and vacuums.

On Monday after we read a new Rhyming Dust Bunnies book, we made some dust bunnies to hang on the door. We each came up with a rhyming word for our dust bunnies.