Down on the farm

 Our classroom has made the first of many changes. We will be exploring with fall, farm, and fire safety. We explore learning about many animals, apple tasting, pumpkin carving, and even STEM with building barns.

Crayon Man

 We worked on cutting, and creating by making a crayon man. The children picked their favorite color, cut out the rectangle, and added the body parts (crazy arms and legs and all!)

Pete the Cat: groovy button game

 Math and Literacy connected together is so much fun. All week, we have read Pete the Cat: 4 groovy buttons. Ending this week, we played a Pete the cat game. The children rolled the die, had to put on that number of buttons, then just like the stop "pop" them off by rolling and removing.

Sea creatures

  We created play dough sea creatures. This was such a fun sensory experience that not only allowed us to create with play dough but to work on number recognition and rote counting. 

I Spy Coconut Tree

We played an Ispy game which involved shaking a bottle, and matching/recognizing letters. Even if the letters were hard to figure out, we worked on labeling the colors that we saw and using that to dot on our coconut tree!

Ready, Set, Paint!

  At the start of school we open each center slowly. This is a guided discovery. We learn how to play, explore creating, and how to clean up. One of the first centers we opened was the easel. One side has chalk and how to draw pictures, and the other is paint. Preschool is a messy place, but amazing creations come out of the mess!

Brown Bear, Brown Bear color sorting

Brown Bear, Brown Bear what do you see? I see the Octopus sorting with candy! Using our beloved book characters, the children sorted with M&M's to match the color of the animals--of course after we got to eat them candy :) Preschool is a yummy place!

Path games, math games!

 At the start of school we open each center slowly. This is a guided discovery. We learn how to play, explore creating, and how to clean up. Something that changes with each theme are the path games. Currently we have many different turn taking, game options. Roll and cover Octopus/Shells, magnetic octopus color and counting, sorting/matching socks, number recognition and math, and Mr. Pigeon drop and count.

Roll and Dot Bear

 

We played our first math game today. We listened to the story of Bear Counts which included lots of counting, size orientation, and creating patterns. Then we had to create our own bears. The children rolled a die (number and color) to decorate their bears. Math can be so much fun!