Friday, January 16

What an exciting day!  We finally got to go outside!  First we did some Morning Work.  Some of us played restaurant on the rug; some of us read books; and some of us worked at our manipulative table with magnets and lacing.

When we came inside we started our centers.  At the rug center we had our castle blocks and our doll house and family.  There was a lot of dramatic play with rescues and superheroes in our doll family. 

At Miss Paula's center we played with some new finger-working toys.  We had to push suction cups together and pull them apart to build things.  We also took turns throwing snowballs!  That was fun! 

At Miss Kathleen's center we practiced tracing and writing our names while holding our pencils/crayons correctly.  While we waited for our friends to finish their centers, we picked up pompoms with tweezers and decorated/redecorated our snowman.

We had a great day!

Wednesday, January 14

We had another cold drizzly day where we didn't get to go out on the playground.  We made up for it by having a lot of fun inside!  After our Morning Work and Circle Time, we came back from our bathroom break to start centers.  At our rug center we played with Jake & the Neverland Pirates LEGOS and Noah's Ark for the last day.  We'll have a completely new rug center on Friday.

At Miss Paula's center we made Playdoh snowmen!  We used buttons and toothpicks and raisins and pipe cleaners to build some really cool snowmen--and snow dogs--and snow cats too!

At Miss Kathleen's center we worked on name puzzles and name tracing.  We even got to bring our name puzzles home to practice for homework.  When we finished, we made snowballs out of newspaper and then put them in bags to make a snowman!

Monday, January 12

We welcomed two more new friends to our class today.  We are now completely filled up with 16 kids!

We had a lot of fun at Morning Work today.  At our manipulative table we had puzzles and our Crystal Climbers on a mirror.  We talked about what a reflection was and looked at the reflections of our creations in the mirror. We also played with our Noah's Ark on the rug and acted out stories with our snowmen decorations while looking at books!

It was way too wet to go outside so we started our centers right after our Morning Circle.  We had our Jake & the Neverland Pirated LEGOS on the rug where we did lots of talking and dramatic play.  At Miss Paula's center we had a lot of manipulatives.  We worked with tracing, lacing, and POP Beads.  Our finger muscles really got a workout!  At Miss Kathleen's center we had our snow sensory bin again, but we also had an ice sensory center!  Some of us didn't like the cold of the real ice!

We made popcorn for our salty snack today.  We enjoyed eating it from the center of our tables instead of from our placemats.  After we heard our story, we sang about Tiny Tim the snowman, then waited for Miss Lesley to call our names for carpool.  We got to listen to the story of The Three Little Pigs read on the computer while we waited.  Some of us got a little tired and decided to lie down for a nap!

Tiny Tim

I had a little snowman

His name was Tiny Tim

I put him in the bathtub

to teach him how to swim!

He drank up all the water (Gulp!)

He ate up all the soap (Gulp!)

When he tried to sing

He had a bubble in his throat!

Glub! Glub! Glub!

Friday, January 9

We started our day by bundling up and heading outside to look for ice.  We found some at the fountain in the garden, and Miss Kathleen broke off pieces of the icicles for us to hold.  We didn't find ice any where else--even though we looked hard!

We came back inside and did our Morning Circle then started our centers.  We played with Jake & the Neverland Pirates LEGOS at our rug center--we're really enjoying those!  At Miss Paula's center we worked on our January placemats then built things with the Pop-Em Beads until everyone else was finished at centers.  At Miss Kathleen's center we used our new snow sensory bin.  That was really cool!  We also practiced writing our names with different kinds of pencils.

Wednesday, January 7

It was good to be back with all of our friends!  We had a new friend join our class today too.  We had a lot of fun getting to know her!  After a little bit of Morning Work we put our coats back on and went out onto the playground.  We had a lot of fun sitting on the hay bales that are outside--and we saw Paco, Taco, and Baby Lizard hiding behind our tree when we lined up to come back inside!

At our centers today we did some writing with Miss Kathleen--and we got our pictures taken dressed up like a snowman!  At our rug center we played with Jake and the Neverland Pirate LEGOS.  We really had had fun building and acting out.  At Miss Paula's center we made our January calendars.  We worked at peeling snowman stickers and glued on some cold weather mittens!

We had a special treat at snack today.  After we sang Happy Birthday to our friend, we had some special pink and purple hippopotamus cookies!