Friday, January 21

It's always exciting when we finish one of our "big" puzzles.

Mr. Potato Head is one of our favorites at morning work.

Helping our friends

Comparing jackets



  

Experimenting with big kid writing utensils



 

Using watercolors at our easels

Making beaded snowflakes

Playing with our Little Pony and Little People toys

Music with Miss Caitlin

Wednesday, January 19

It seemed as if we had been away from school forever!  After our morning work and our calendar, we said the Pledge of Allegiance and sang Salute the Flag.  We also practiced counting to ten in Spanish today.  Some of us already knew some of the Spanish number words, so it was just a review for us!

In centers today we practiced cutting on lines (and repositioning our scissors for easier cutting!) and made magic crayon snowflakes with Miss Kathleen.  We used our tracers and some big kid pencils with Miss Hennessey--or we traced name cards with markers if we got tired of our tracer shapes.  On the rug, we had some of our Little People toys out and some new My Little Pony sets.  We really liked them!

It was kind of cold and damp so we couldn't really go outside to play.  Instead we took a walk around the Memorial Gardens and saw some Spanish moss, some red berries on the holly trees, some woodpeckers, and a blue jay.  Then we went to see if the playground was wet.  There were so many puddles we only found one dry place to sit down--the covered bench!  We were ready to come back into our nice dry room and have snack after that!

Friday, January 14

Even though we were wearing our pajamas, we still came in and did a little bit of morning work.  In addition to our regular puzzles and our art table, we also had a floor puzzle that had really big pieces.  At our manipulative table, we had our building spiders and something new--Mr. Potato Heads!

We did some quick centers before going over for our movie.  We decorated our popcorn bags and then plugged in our air popper, counting and listening to hear the first pops.  We also made some "snowballs" by scrunching up newspaper into balls.  We put these into white trashbags and then Miss Kathleen stacked them up to make a snowman.  We added a hat, scarf, eyes, and a nose to make an indoor snowman for our classroom.

Finally it was time to go over to Fellowship Hall for our movie!  We had a lot of fun there!  We ate our popcorn, talked to our friends, napped in our sleeping bags, and even watched the movie!

 

Wednesday, January 12

After coming in from the cold of carpool, we did some quick morning work and calendar time and then started centers.  At one of our centers we finished working on our cut and paste mosaic snowflakes.  By the time most of us had enough little shapes cut out and glued down, we were tired--and silly--so Mrs. Hennessey helped cut out the big snowflake shapes for us. 

We also got to have our kitchen and dress up clothes out on our rug center.  Some of us "made food for a picnic" and got dressed up to sit down and eat!

Our last center was easel painting again.  Today we used tempera paints in shades of blue, purple and white.  We did a lot of mixing and experimenting with our colors and practiced some different techniques.  Now we have an art gallery of our paintings on our back curtain!

Monday, January 10

We were ready to come in from carpool and warm up while doing our morning work!  Some of us spent time at the manipulative table, using our ladders and pegs.  Some of us worked at the puzzle table, even putting together our latest 24 piece puzzle!  Some of us liked the gingerbread pictures and the quilt pattern coloring sheets at the crayon table.  We all liked being in our nice warm classroom!

After doing our calendar, saying the Pledge of Allegiance, and singing "Salute the Flag", we looked at the new crate of books for our room.  All of the books in this crate are song books like "Wheels on the Bus" and "Old McDonald" and they're all marked with an  S  for song and some musical notes.  We've gotten so good at putting our books back in the right crates!

We took a quick bathroom break and then came back to the room for centers.   We had housekeeping today for our dramatic play center.  We especially liked the telephones and guitars that we used for the first time! 

We cut and pasted little pieces of construction paper onto snowflake shapes with Mrs. Hennessey.  It was hard work cutting all of those pieces, figuring out where to fit them in, and then gluing them on.  We got some help with the cutting from Mrs. Hennessey, but we're going to have to work on this again on Wednesday to get finished. 

We used watercolors to paint on easels in Miss Kathleen's center.  It was a little bit messy, but a lot of fun!  We're going to try painting with tempera paint on the easels on Wednesday.

Wednesday, January 5

Welcome back!!! 

We were so busy at centers that Miss Kathleen didn't have time to get her camera out.  Luckily, we have some pictures from our morning work at the start of the day. 

We had some new puzzles out and we found that puzzles don't always have to be flat on the table!

There are also lots of different ways to use tangrams:  building; making patterns; filling in tangram puzzles; even playing recycling center with them!

When the rice from our winter sensory table spilled on the floor, it was a perfect opportunity to take turns making "snow" angels!