Tuesday, November 1, 2011

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

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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!

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Meet Andrew the alligator…

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On his behalf today we made Alligators…

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

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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…

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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.

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

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

Sunday, October 30, 2011

Halloween Spark Preschool Style

Look at the creatures that came to my house today!

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Halloween has never been one of my favorite holidays, but I will admit that when these little guys showed up at my door it made me Happy! We had a lot of fun today. We made paper plate spider webs with 2 spiders. They had to lace yarn in and out of the holes. Great project for so many reasons.

I also had them decorate there goodie bags. They used puff paints, and did amazing jobs.

We played games, ready books, sang songs and introduced letters today!

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I am falling in love with all of these little critters. They make my heart happy!

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Happy Halloween!!! Hopefully you all have a wonderful safe weekend!

1-10 Review

Today we did a lot of fun activities to review the numbers 1-10! I didn’t take a ton of pictures, but we did have a lot of fun. One of the activities we did was to roll the dice, and draw the number it landed on.

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They had fun with it. While they ate snack, we watch our numbers movie one last time.

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Sorry for the short post.

Please continue to work with your little ones on the numbers. Thanks! Also, don’t forget to dress up Thursday for our Halloween Party. It should be SPOOKTACULAR!