Monday, February 22

We've been using teamwork to build some bigger puzzles lately during Morning Work.  We did this ABC puzzle, then used it to recite the alphabet.

We had a lot of fun in Spanish today with the names of animals and the sounds that they make.  Be sure to check backpacks for our Spanish sheet for this week.

It was a beautiful day out on the playground!  We especially enjoyed playing bakery, ice cream shop, and restaurant!

Miss Kathleen checked some of our counting skills at her center.  We played in the St. Patrick's Day sensory bin while we waited our turn. At Miss Paula's center we worked on our March calendars.  While we waited for our friends to finish we made magnetic leprechauns.  At the rug center we had another day to play with our Barbies/superheroes and our cars.

Friday, February 19

We worked hard today! At Miss Paula's center we used paper towel rolls to stamp shamrocks.  We got to bring one of these home and we'll use the other one for our March placemats.  While we were waiting for our friends to finish we explored the St. Patrick's Day sensory bin.

At the rug center we had our bin of Barbies and superheroes to dress and play with. We also had another day to race our cars along the track.  We're loving both of these rug centers!

At Miss Kathleen's center we read a Clifford magazine about leprechauns.  We learned that some people believe there's a pot of gold--and maybe a leprechaun--hiding at the end of a rainbow!

Wednesday, February 17

It was a beautiful day to spend some time out on the playground.  We were especially interested in the shadow shapes we could make because of the strong sunlight.

At Miss Kathleen's center we practiced tracing while using some silly golfball pencils!  We worked really hard.  At Miss Paula's center we played St. Patrick's Day BINGO.  We had to be good listeners and use our "I Spy" eyes to find all of the pictures on our BINGO cards.  At the rug center we had our Barbie/Superhero box for the first time.  (This center is great for getting dramatic play going--and for working fine motor skills while dressing and undressing those figures!)  We also had our cars and raceway again.

Friday, February 12

Thank you to everyone who helped to make Valentine's Day so much fun!

Morning Work: Coloring, cutting, manipulatives, magnetic letters, giant puzzles

Lots of Valentine's Day colors in our class today!

Centers: Valentine's sensory bin, Donuts with Dads invitation, playing on the rug, and delivering Valentines!

Party time--finally!

Wednesday, February 10

We had an exciting start to our day!  Miss Amanda brought her macaw, Gossamer, to visit us! He was so cool!  We even heard him whisper "Thank you" when Miss Amanda gave him a pistachio.  We learned that macaws usually live in the rainforest and that they can live up to 80 years!  Gossamer even left us one of his feathers to examine.

It was too cold to go outside so we started centers early.  At Miss Kathleen's center we made a special Valentine card and learned how to say "I love you" in Spanish.  At Miss Paula's center we worked on a surprise for our daddies--and played in the Valentine sensory bin!  At our rug center, we had one more day of our dollhouse dramatic play and our cars/racetrack!  We loved it!

Monday, February 8

We worked on a long number puzzle today during Morning Work!  We practiced counting from one all the way through twenty.  We also used teamwork to put all the pieces together.

After we cleaned up from Morning Work we had Spanish with Senora Hillary.  We practiced a lot of our Spanish words, including por favor, gracias, de nada, and silencio!  We also learned rapido (fast) and despacio (slow) today.

  After a break outside in the beautiful weather, we came back in for centers. We worked a lot on fine motor skills today.  At Miss Kathleen's center, we practiced our grip and traced 10 hearts.  When we finished we played with penguin finger puppets in snow/shaving cream. At Miss Paula's center we carefully picked up pieces of tissue paper and put them on a contact paper heart.  It took a lot of concentration! While we waited for our friends to finish we played in the Valentine's Day sensory bin.  We had our last day of the the big bricks at the rug center--and the next to the last day with our dollhouse. We wonder what our next rug centers will be?