New coat rack!!

I have to show this off to everyone!  I am so blessed to have the greatest preschool parents ever!! One of my preschool parents made a new coat rack for our preschool room.  I have 10 preschoolers and getting their big coats and bags onto the small coat rack was almost impossible!  I had coats and bags falling down everywhere!!   I told her that if she wanted to she was more than welcomed!  Oh my did she do a good job!! The coat rack is super duper cute! I can't believe how there's so much more space than before!!! The preschoolers even told me today when they got to 'try it out' that there is a TON of room now! 

Here are the pictures of our new coat rack!! Again thank you Angela for making it!  You did such a great job!!! 

Our new coat rack with a shelf on the top to put our gloves and mittens!!! 

 

The handprints on the top are her daughters!! I am so proud of her for 'getting her hands dirty' and doing each handprint!

 



Thanksgiving and Turkeys!!

This week is we learned about Thanksgiving and of course TURKEYS! We continued working on our letter Ee, brown, squares and the number 4.  I apologize now because there aren't a lot of pictures from this week.  My camera died on Monday and on Wednesday we had so much fun that taking pictures completely slipped off my mind (one of those days :) ). 

Anyways this week we learned about what giving thanks means and somethings that we are thankful for.  It was interesting on some of the things that they were thankful for.  Most of them were thankful for their puppies!  :)  The whole week we were gobbling around like turkeys and strutting while we walked from place to place.  We also had to gobble while we did it.  You can not be a turkey without gobbling!

On Monday we made a turkey dinner.  We stuffed brown lunch bags with newspaper, twisted them, taped and shaped them to look like turkey legs.  We next added our mashed potatoes which consisted of cotton balls.  You couldn't have mashed potaotes without butter, so we had to add some butter!  We also added yellow and green tissue paper for our green beans and corn.  I LOVED how they all reminded me that corn and green beans were a vegetable and that they are good for us! 
Here is a picture of our Thanksgiving meal.
 

 

 

I am addicted to pinterest!  If you have never heard of it or been on the website you are missing out!  There are oodles and I mean OODLES of good creative ideas.  I found a turkey craft that we had todo.  It involved FINGERPAINTING (their favorite)!!   Here are footprint and handprint turkeys! 

I had to take a picture of this one.  It was one of my favorites!  When I painted their hands, I used one hand to 'blend' in the colors.  This little boy choose green and orange. The reason I love it is because one of the 'feathers' turned camo, pretty neat!!  What made it even better was that he pointed it out! :)  I love how my preschoolers are so smart and the things that they notice!

 



 

 

On Wednesday we continued learning about turkeys.  We made turkeys out of rice krispies.  They didn't turn out as well as I planned.  When we tried to put out fruit loop feathers on, our turkey fell apart. :(   In the end it was a great lesson on how things don't always turn out like you want them to.  You just work with what you have and make the best out of it and that is exactly what we did! 

 

 

Since our rice krispie turkeys didn't turn out like we wanted them too, we made another turkey!! 

 

 

 

I hope you all have a great Happy Thanksgiving and enjoy your break with friends and family!!! 

 

 

 

 

 

 

My Body!

Where has November gone? I can't believe it's almost Thanksgiving!  I apologize for being behind on my posts!
Last week we learned about our body and eating well!  We played games which included finding different body parts such as: arms, elbows, knees, shoulders, etc.  We listened and sang to many songs! One of the favorites was: 'I can Wiggle".  We wiggled all of our body parts from our heads to our toes!   Some other songs we did were: The Hokey Pokey (of course! great body part song!), Head, Shoulder, Knees and Toes, and Can You Find it? 

We learned about different types of foods that are good for us and that aren't good.  I had some stuffed vegetables and fruits I used to explain and show them some foods that are good for us.   Later we did an activity where they had to sort out the healthy foods vs the non healthy foods.

We learned about our bones and how they are important to us.  Even though you cannot see our bones, they are still inside of us.  We discussed what an X-ray is and what it does.
Here is the craft we did with an X-ray.  I painted bones on their hands and it says, 'Even though you cannot see, here are the bones inside of me.'   The little raccoon in the picture is Chester from the Kissing Hand-we learned about Chester the raccoon the first week of school.  He is with us everyday in preschool.  When the kids feel 'homesick' or are just having a bad day, they get to go to Chester and give him a hug and put his 'kissing hand' to their cheek!)

 

 

 

Along with learning about our bodies, the shape of the week was a square and the color was brown!  We made our bodies out of brown squares!!

 

 

 

 

We learned about the letter Ee this week.  I made a big Ee on the carpet using masking tape.  They though that was the coolest thing ever!!! I couldn't believe how much they loved that big Ee and playing on it!  Here are some pictures of us forming the letter Ee.

 

 

 

During center time, they got to drive cars on the Ee! 

 

 

I think Friday's in preschoo are one of my favorites and that's why we call it Fabulous Friday!! Since we are learning about Ee this week, we had to do an experiment with an egg.  We did the egg in a bottle experiment.  I asked them if they thought I could get this egg into the bottle.  I placed the egg on the bottle and it wouldn't fit.  I got responses telling me, "we should blow it up" to 'cut it into smaller pieces'.    I told them I was going to make egg be sucked into the bottle.  Their faces explain it all!

 

 

 

 

 

 

Along with learning the letter Ee, we did an elephant craft. 

 

 

Here are what they look like!

 

 

 

5 Senses!

This week the preschoolers learned about their 5 senses!  We started off on Monday by discussing what our five senses were and how we use them every day!  We mostly focused on hearing, seeing and touching on Monday.   Our letter of the week this week was the letter Ll.  We also learned the number 4, the shape -square and color brown (cafe). 
We started off in the morning by playing a game that uses mostly our ears.  I have one of those little baking/cooking timers and I showed how it sounds and works.   The preschoolers played a game where I would hide it and they had to use their ears to find the timer.  We played till everyone found the timer!  I can't believe how good their little ears are! We then played a game where I had objects in a brown paper bag.  They had to feel around in the bag and describe what they felt.

When we learned about our new letter, Ll, we learned it a new fun way!  We used SHAVING CREAM! The remarks from the preschoolers were quite funny.  I had some say, "You are going to shave my face?", "My dad uses that.  His face gets hairy.",  "I won't use that! I don't have hair!"
We used our senses to touch the shaving cream, to smell it and to see it.  A lot of the preschoolers said it looked like a big fluffy cloud! We wrote our letter Ll in the shaving cream and after that I let them explore and play!  Here are some pictures!

 

We continued our 5 senses unit again on Wednesday.  We focused more of the tasting and smelling part of our 5 senses.  We learned how to write the letter L and the number 4. 

I reviewed with them what each sense does and they remember! (YAY) :)

 

We did an experiment that made us use our sight, hearing, smelling and tasting today! We popped popcorn! Some of the preschoolers didn't know what I had. We listened to the sound of the kernels being poured into the popcorn popper. We also smelt it before we popped it! Here are some pictures! Their faces say it all!

After we popped our popcorn we did an art project with our letter Ll.  We painted our letter Ll red, but of course we couldn't just use our fingers or paintbrushes.  We painted our letter L's with BUBBLE WRAP!  To incorporate our 5 senses unit we added some Kool-aid mix to our red paint. They all said that it smelt like candy!   Our letter L's smelt amazing!  The smell is still lingering in my room! Here are the pictures!

 

After painting our letter L's we couldn't just let the bubble wrap just sit there, we had to POP it!

 

We finished our long and exciting day with eating our popcorn that we popped earlier and watching a movie about our 5 senses.