Monday, December 2

We were so excited to get back to school today and see our friends.  After doing our Morning Work and having Circle Time, we went outside for some playing!

After we came back in, we had our centers.  We had our last day playing with the office center.  We were very good workers!  Miss Paula wasn't at school today so Miss Lisa helped at her center.  We used PlayDoh to decorate gingerbread pictures.  We practiced counting up to seven, then using our number skills--and our fine motor skills--to decorate!  We also showed Miss Lisa how well we could say and make the letters in our names with PlayDoh.  At Miss Kathleen's center we did the first step in our Christmas flowers.  We used eye-droppers and watercolor paint to color in our poinsettias.  They have to dry for a couple of days before we can finish them.  While we waited for our other friends to finish, we did some building with bristle-blocks.

Monday, November 25

We had a great time at centers today.  We love our office center!  There's lots of business going on!

At Miss Paula's center we worked on our names and fine motor skills.  We practiced spelling for Miss Paula and we rolled play-doh to cover the letters in our names.

At Miss Kathleen's center we practiced counting and adding beads to our turkey feathers.

We're looking forward to our program tomorrow!  See you there!

Friday, November 22

We had the playground to ourselves on Friday morning!  It was a little bit wet, but we had a lot of fun!

When we came back inside we started our centers.  We had our office center on the rug again today and we were very busy!  At Miss Paula's center we worked on decorating a wreath for our December calendars.  We especially liked using the little red pompoms as berries!  At Miss Kathleen's center we learned the rules for a counting game with turkeys.  You roll the die and count out the correct number of beads to put on the turkey's pipe cleaner feathers.  Today we were very interested in exploring how many beads we could get on each pipe cleaner--we'll work on the counting part again on Monday!

Wednesday, November 20

(Sorry this post is so late!  I've been having some computer issues!  Friday's post will be up shortly!)

Morning Work!

Working our brains and our hand muscles by putting lids on containers

Magnets!

At Miss Kathleen's center we finished our paperbag turkeys by stuffing them with newspaper.  Then we did some name practice and fine motor work by covering the letters of our names with play-doh.

At Miss Paula's center we used hole punches to get our trees ready for our December placemats.  They're going to look great!  We had a new center on the rug today.  We played office!  We had paper, pencils, computers, and phones to help us run our business.

Monday, November 18

We had another silly day in our classroom today!  We went outside right after we did our Morning Circle and Calendar Time.  It felt like summertime again!  We ran and played and had a great time.  Then we went over to the Sanctuary to practice for our Thanksgiving program with Miss Jenna and our friends.  We're doing a great job singing!

Firefighters

Singing to Miss Paula

Sleeping Princesses

Thankful for the sun...

Thankful for the stars...

When we came back to our classroom we had snack before we had our centers!  That was a good thing because a lot of us were really hungry.  At our rug center we had our last day of playing with our action figures and colored wooden blocks.  At Miss Paula's center we made bracelets from cut-up straws and pipe cleaners, then we played with our magnet board.  At Miss Kathleen's center we finished our coffee filter turkeys and started on our paperbag turkeys.  We had a lot of fun at all of our centers today!