Ice cream! -hot/cold

This week we learned about our opposites: hot and cold.  We are still learning about the shape: crescent.  We learned a new letter, number and color this week!  We learned:  number 6, letter Ss and color blue. 

Make sure you check out our Ice Cream album for more pictures!

We discussed what things are hot and cold. I had one little boy say (his exact words): "you can't touch a stove cause it very hot and it will hurt you, but you can touch a figitator cause it cold and gives me food."  :)  He is very right with the hot and cold! :)  We also learned the words and how to identify/read the words: hot and cold.  We categorized our colors hot and cold with colors.  When we talked about hot we would use the color red and the color blue when we talked about cold. 

We started off the morning by coloring our letter I's with colored ice cubes! We explained that ice begins with the letter i and that it's cold. 
The ice cubes consisted of water and a package of Kool-aid, which gave it that sweet yummy smell.  As you can see in some of the pictures the ice cubes are up to their noses. 

 

Sorting out hot and cold items.

 

Since we now know and went over our numbers 1-5, I incorporate all the numbers we have learned so far plus the new number we are learning about.  This week not only focused on hot and cold but also ICE CREAM!!

This is one of our math activities that we did.  We had to put the correct number of ice cream scoops for each cone.  They noticed something happening with each number, the ice cream cones got bigger and the scoops got higher!! 

Here is a pictures of the activity!

 

We learned a new color blue, so we colored a picture of a blue bird.

 

 

One of our art projects was a snowy scene through our window. Here is the finished project. We traced our hand/arm to use for a tree, glue on snow for the 'hill', our window frames and then went wild with our white snow. Some of them got a little carried away and made a complete white out bliizzard! :) It's their artwork and I let them be creative when it comes to that. I just smiled and asked them where their tree went. They pointed it out and said 'You can't see it cause the snow is too white' It is never a dull moment in preschool!!

I asked them what they thought was in it.  They guessed some crazy things.  One little guy popped up and said "I hope it's not a skunk because they smell!" Oh boy did I have their little brains a going.   We got our activities done and then we got to do our surprise!  I told them that it's cold and very yummy.  That same boy who hoped it wasn't a skunk thanked me for not bringing a skunk. 

Since we are learning about hot and cold, the letter I and our theme was ice cream....we made homemade ice cream!

They got to measure up their own ingredients.  While we were shaking our bags, some of the bags got holes in them (the ones that held our milk, sugar and vanilla).  Lets just say some had really salty ice cream from the rock salt that was put with the ice.  They had a blast making it!  I told them we would do it again.  They told me not to put the salt in next time so it will be yummy. 

Pouring ingredients.



 

Here comes the ice cubes!

 

Ready, set....SHAKE!!

 

 

 



 

 

 

 

A little more snow!

The first week of preschool in 2013 was a good way to start off the new year!  You could tell the preschoolers were ready to come back!!   When they walked in the door from a long (short to me) Christmas break with those huge smiles on their faces, I knew right then this week was going to be a good one!  Oh my did I miss those little guys! :) 

We continued our snow unit for the first week of January.  We focused mostly on what we all could do out in the snow.  We read a book called "Froggy gets Dressed", a very cute book.  Froggy decides he doesn't want to hibernate anymore and instead wants to go out and play in the snow.  Well, he continues to forget things he needs to wear before he goes outside.  The things that he forgot made the preschoolers just giggle, which then made me giggle at them.  :)  They did a great job remembering what he all had on and what we all need to go on outside.  They also did a great job guessing at what Froggy forgot. 

We discussed all what Froggy would do when he got ready and went outside to play.  I got anything from snow angels, building forts, to sledding down hills and falling off.  One little guy reminded us not to eat yellow snow! :) Along with finishing up our snow unit, we learned about the letter Ss, the shape: crescent, the number 5 and color white. 

One of the activities that we did was ice skating in our room! When I told what we were going to do, they looked at me like I was crazy.  Ice skating in our room?  Inside?  Little did they know that I do know how to have fun and were very shocked at what were used for our skates, but their faces showed just how much fun they had! :)

We used paper plates for our ice skates.  At first some of them said that it was hard, but once they got used to it and figured out how to move their feet, they were off!! 

One of our art projects was a snowy scene through our window. Here is the finished project. We traced our hand/arm to use for a tree, glue on snow for the 'hill', our window frames and then went wild with our white snow. Some of them got a little carried away and made a complete white out bliizzard! :) It's their artwork and I let them be creative when it comes to that. I just smiled and asked them where their tree went. They pointed it out and said 'You can't see it cause the snow is too white' It is never a dull moment in preschool!!

 

Here are some of pictures of the preschoolers during our center time.

 

 

Christmas! - Good bye 2012!!

Wow, I am way behind on my blogging!  Sorry about that.  I actually brought my computer home thinking I have two weeks off, I will get my blogging updated.  As you can see that didn't happen.  I but I don't know about you all but I thought our Christmas break went by really quickly.  Anyways enough of my rambling.  I hope everyone had a great Christmas holiday and a happy New Year's.  I  am looking forward to the year 2013 and what it has in store for the preschoolers. 

 

We finished off the year with a Christmas unit.  We reviewed our letters Kk and Jj along with the number 5, triangles and our colors gold and green. Our circle time activities had a little bit of Christmas added to it.  Below are some pictures of tinsel limbo. 

 

 

 

This is one of the crafts that we made during the week.  It's our unique Christmas tree.  We reviewed our big and small skills.  They did very well.  The pieces are scraps of wallpaper from those out of style wallpaper books.  It's amazing what you can do with wallpaper scraps! :)

 

Here is the poem that went with our Christmas tree.  I searched and searched to find a cute little poem to go with our craft.  I could not believe that I could not find one that would fit with our unique tree.  (I gave up after 10 mintues of searching)  I eventually put pieces of poems into one creative one and it worked for me. :)

The poem says:

 

I'm a unique Christmas tree,

that will bring you good cheer.

Made for you from me,

for Christmas only comes once a year!

 

This is our little classroom tree.  Once I had all my decorations up, it was priceless to see their little faces light up when they walked in the room.

 

Reading books during a transistion time and clean up from an art project.

Cutting out, gluing and putting our numbers in order.

 

 



 

One of our games at our Christmas party was, reindeer, reindeer, SANTA! (like duck, duck, goose)  Yes, that's me joining in on the fun! Of couse I wouldn't miss out :)!  It was our ugly sweater/Christmas hat day, which explains the ugly sweater (Thank you mom!)

 

 

For snack we made peanut butter and jelly reindeers! I used a heart shaped cookie cutter to cut out the sandwiches.  M&M's were used for the eyes and nose and the antlers were pretzels.

Present time!  They couldn't wait for this part.  I was very impressed on how patient they were beforehand!