Monday, November 28

We eased back into our centers this morning!  It was nice to be back with all of our friends after a week off.  We worked with play-doh in Mrs. Hennessy's center.  We used some new tools to make different shapes and designs. 

At Miss Kathleen's center, we decorated Christmas bags.  We'll be working on some ornaments over the next couple of weeks that we can bring home and share with our families.  When we finished our bags, we did some name recognition and matching games.

We had some new toys at our rug center too: a big box of horses!  We also had our wooden blocks that we used to build fences and barns and paths for our horses!  Some of us decided that our horses were the flying kind so they needed towers instead! 

Friday, November 18

Happy Grandparents' Day!

Hoping your family has a wonderful Thanksgiving!

Wednesday, November 16

Morning work!

Building towers with unifix cubes

Measuring with unifix cube

Practicing coloring and cutting skills

Working at the puzzle table

Playing at the puzzle table!

Monday, November 7

The weekend time change didn't slow us down any!  We went right to work at our tables when we came into the room.  We've started working on some harder puzzles in the morning and some of us have already mastered them!

At centers today, we used our classroom set of gears up on the rug.  This was something new for us and we did a lot of exploring!  We started working on our Grandparents' Day presents at Miss Kathleen's center.  We worked really hard at getting all of our pennies lined up nice and neat.  We did some weaving at Mrs. Hennesy's center.  It was hard to get used to going over and under with our weaving strips, but we kept working at it!

Friday, November 4

It was a little bit chilly as we came in from carpool this morning.  Some of us did our morning work with our jackets on!  We went outside early because we have to be ready for music with Miss Caitlin at 10:00.  We found some really cool leaves on the way to the playground.

At Miss Kathleen's center we worked getting sparkly thumbprints on our Grandparents' Day gifts, then we spent some more time exploring our magnet board.  At our rug center, we used our Builders/Benders and our pirate ships.  Mrs. Hennessy wasn't here today, but Miss Brittany was a big help!  In her center we made Indian corn with tissue paper squares.  Miss Kathleen didn't get a picture of us working, but you can see what they look liked hanging in the room!

Wednesday, November 2

We had a great time at centers today!  We read about turkeys with Miss Kathleen and then helped scoop seeds out of our pumpkins.  (Well, some of us helped, others didn't want anything to do with the messy, sticky pumpkin innards!)  We started working on our costumes for Grandparents' Day with Mrs. Hennessy.  We made our necklaces with beads and lacing strings--we can't wait to bring them home at Thanksgiving.  At our rug center, we played with a double set of Builders/Benders.  This set even had some wheels in it! 

Happy Halloween!

Giggling princesses

Pumpkin parade

Walking over to Summer Breeze

Waiting to sing!

When we came back from Summer Breeze, we each chose one treat to eat right away.  A lot of us decided we wanted a lollipop!  Then we played on the rug for a little while before washing our hands for a special Halloween treat.  Thank you to all of the moms and dads who came to our party!