A is for… alligator

Today we had an AMAZING day. The kids are just adorable. We were blessed to have little Miss Oakleigh in class with us today as well. She is my little niece and just added to the cuteness for sure.

Since I started this little session of preschool a few months late, I am trying to squeeze everything into the 6 months we have. So some days we are doing a lot, but the kids are doing amazing with it, so as of right now I don’t think I will make any changes. Even though we have only been in school for a few weeks, I have seen a lot of improvements with these little 3 and 4 year olds. They are doing great.

Today our focus was on: Aa, square, and blue. We did talk about the number 2 as well.

I am continually encouraging the kids not to say “I can’t,” and letting them know that they can do anything they want to do. It isn’t important if it is perfect, just that they did the best that they could do right now. I love to see how excited they get when they do accomplish something they they believed they couldn’t do.

Isn’t that a scary bunch of Alligators? They did so good, and for the most part with no help from me. I encouraged and showed proper ways to do it, but I let them run with this. You should really be impressed with your little ones!!! I know I am.

We sang “5 little Monkeys.” They might not have it completely memorized yet, but they loved it. See if they can remember it…

“Five Little Monkey's Swinging in the Tree”
Five little monkey’s swinging in the tree teasing Mr. Alligator can’t catch me….can’t catch me along came Mr. Alligator quiet as can be and snapped that monkey right out that tree

Four little monkey’s swinging in the tree teasing Mr. Alligator can’t catch me….can’t catch me along came Mr. Alligator quiet as can be and snapped that monkey right out that tree

Three little monkey’s swinging in the tree teasing Mr. Alligator can’t catch me….can’t catch me along came Mr. Alligator quiet as can be and snapped that monkey right out that tree

Two little monkey’s swinging in the tree teasing Mr. Alligator can’t catch me….can’t catch me along came Mr. Alligator quiet as can be and snapped that monkey right out that tree

One little monkey’s swinging in the tree teasing Mr. Alligator can’t catch me….can’t catch me along came Mr. Alligator quiet as can be and snapped that monkey right out that tree

No more monkey’s swinging in the tree!

Here is one I found on you tube!

FOR MY PARENTS:

Please remember that there will be no preschool on Tuesday November 19th. Again, I apologize for this.

Thanks for everything. You have a wonderful weekend!!!

Starting the Alphabet- Letter A

Today was our first day of learning the alphabet! So naturally it was all about the letter A.

Cannon & Evelyn we sure missed you today.

To introduce all of the letters we read “Chicka Chicka Boom Boom.” It is such a cute book.

Look at these little A’s

     

I think they all did exceptional! Don’t you?

A little more practice with the worksheet! It has upper and lower case letters, letter recognition with a’s as the first letter, and a’s in the middle of the words! Such a good worksheet!

Meet Andrew the alligator…

On his behalf today we made Alligators…

     

To keep with our theme, we sang “5 little Monkeys”

Five little monkey swinging in a tree

Teasing Mr. Alligator, “Can’t catch me!”

Along comes Mr. Alligator, as quiet as can be

And SNAPS that monkey right out of that tree.

(Repeat with 4 monkeys, then 3 monkeys, and on and on)

For our Life Skill we talked about the importance of washing our hands. We did a fun little activity…

 

I sprinkled some glitter on the kids hands. I told them to touch different parts of themselves and each other. What happens? The glitter sticks to what they touch. In this activity the glitter equals germs! When we have germs on our hands, they spread onto everything we touch. I think they completely loved it, and completely understand it.  With this we learned (or tried to-it’s a little long) this song…

Washing our Hands

… and we washed our hands.

I made sure that they washed all the germs (glitter) off!

      

Hope you all had a wonderful Halloween! See you all Thursday.

A’s & B’s

Today was a fun day. The kids were happy, listened well, and really had a good time! I hope anyway…they sure seemed to!  

In our Summer Program Curriculum we have to do  letters each day we have class. Todays letters were A & B.

Each of them took turns drawing both the Upper and Lower case A’s & B’s on the board. I like to put them on the spot, I think it encourages them to do there best because the other students are watching, and I do believe it will give the courage and confidence to be the center of attention in scary or nerve racking situations. It also allows me to give them my undivided attention.

After they all had a turn it was on to our worksheet!

This certainly isn’t the highlight of the day for the kids, but one of the most important parts. They all did such a great job.

1st step of our Arts & Craft today was painting the backside of a paper plate. The kids all absolutely love to paint. I don’t know if it is the mess it makes, or that they don’t get to do it as much as crayons, but boy they sure do love it…

While the wet paint was drying it was on to cutting out feathers…

The plates weren’t quite dry yet, so it was upstairs for a delicious snack of bananas and strawberry's with fruit dip. Mmmmmm  mmmmmm good, Thanks Grace!

After we ate it was on to a little craft I remembered doing as a little girl in school. This was such a HUGE HIT!!! Before we started they got a big warning about the hot griddle… I promise I took every precaution to keep it safe, and I am happy to report not a single burn!!! They had a blast.

A is for A.P.P.L.E!

    

Look at these delicious apples…

Then we were back downstairs to create our Birds! The turned out so cute…

    

When everyone was done, and we cleaned up our mess, the kids requested that they get to do another wax paper drawing! They just loved it, and I love it when the simple things make them so happy.

Cason made a tree house…

Grace drew her next to a coconut tree…

Bridger also drew a tree (but didn’t finish it like he wanted, he said he messed up-I think it looks wonderful)…

Addisyn drew this…

Deegan drew bunk beds with him and his brother…

What a group of artist I have!!! Don’t you just love all there imaginations? I certainly do!!!

MEET SPARK…

This is our class Mascot! He is so excited to be able to go home with each kiddo. I can’t wait to hear all the amazing stories of what they got to do with Spark while he was with them. Cason was the lucky one who got to take him home today! I hope you have such a great time together. I can’t wait to hear all about it on Monday!!!

Have a wonderful Weekend!