Mid-January

On Friday we helped even out the mulch on the playground with some cool kid-sized rakes.  Then we came in and started our centers.  At Miss Kathleen's center we worked our finger muscles by sharpening crayons, then we melted them and turned them into snowflakes! At our rug center, we had another day of playing with cars.  We've had a lot of fun with those!  Miss Laura helped us at our writing center.  We practiced our grips, writing and drawing, and cutting and gluing.  We cleaned up our centers and then had music with Miss Becca!

On Wednesday we started our day by making a snowman!  This one was made of crumpled up paper and plastic bags, so we knew he wouldn't melt.  At Miss Kathleen's center we practiced name recognition by playing BINGO!  It was another day of cars at the rug center.  We could play with those cars forever!  At Miss Jessie's center we made more snowmen--but these were made out of play-doh!

 

Wednesday, January 11

We enjoyed doing some new things at Morning Work.  We even used some teamwork with our manipulatives!

At Miss Kathleen's center we had lots of sparkles!  We peeled the backing off contact paper snowflakes and rolled them in glitter, then we practiced writing our names with glitter crayons.  At Miss Laura's center we worked our finger muscles and our imaginations.  We pushed golf tees and pipe cleaners into styrofoam boards.  We made some cool designs! At our rug center we had another day to play with cars and all of the fun things that go with them. 

We really like the January bulletin board in the hall by the bathroom!

Monday, January 9

We took a walk around the outside this morning (after spending a lot of time practicing putting coats and jackets on and off!) and found some ice.  We broke icicles off the fountain, found ice puddles on the playground, and held ice in our hands until it melted!

We came inside and warmed up during centers. At Miss Laura's center we made snowmen out of icy blue playdoh.  We really worked our hand muscles!  At Miss Kathleen's center we played in the snow sensory bin and worked some more hand muscles by punching out snowflake shapes.  At the rug center we had cars, cars, and more cars!  We did a great job of playing together and sharing.  

After we cleaned up our centers, we welcomed Senora Emily for Spanish.  We practiced moving our manos and dedos--and learned a new Spanish song about snow/nieve!

Week of January 4th

It was a short week, but we got a lot done!  

We had fun on the playground.

We made our January placemats and calendars. 

We played with our office center on the rug.

 

We explored our snow sensory bin.

We made snow with a sno-cone machine and then used it to paint. 

We had music with Miss Becca. 

We celebrated a friend's birthday!