And we're off!!!

Being back in school is amazing!  I can't believe how much I missed it and I was only gone for two weeks!  The Kindergartners adjusted really well with the transition and are becoming more familiar on how I do things in Kindergarten.  I can't believe how many bright young learners I have.

 Did I mention that all the elementary classrooms got those new boards put in this year?!?  Well we did and oh my I am in LOVE!! I can't not believe what we can all do on there, how to incorporate into our lessons/activities and centers!  I am not sure on who loves it more...the Kindergartners or myself.  They like it especially during our 'rest' time when we get to watch a movie every now and then for a 'treat.'

Here we are doing some word work.  They each choose a letter: A, B, or C. They grabbed their journals and had to go find 3 words with that had the letter in it that they choose. 

This week we in our reading we read a story called The Little Yellow Bus and we were also learning about the letter Cc.  We made a yellow bus craft and added a poem with some "c" words that we had to add to our poem. 

We finished up our 5 senses unit in Science.  Here is one of the crafts that they did.  We worked on labeling and identifying which parts we use for our senses.  

Working on some centers. 

Center Work:  They had to choose a letter tile and color in the apple that matched the tile. 

Center:  Playdough! (one of their favorites)

Here are our 5 senses projects out in the hallway. 

One of our sight words we learned this last week and the poem to go with it.  This song is sung to: If you're happy and you know it! 

In Social Studies we started to learn about families.  We first talked about our own families to start off the unit.  Then we filled in our "Families" chart.  We discussed how families are the same and different from each other. We also talked about about some of the things we do together as a family that we really enjoy doing. 

Family sort.  They had to find pictures to match each category for our family.  They had to find pictures of: Mommies and Daddies; Brothers and Sisters; Grandpas and Grandmas and also Pets. 

One of our crafts we made were our family trees.  We read a story about a little girl who was making her own family tree.  I asked them if they have ever heard of a family tree and I had one that said yes.  It's a tree that has a family living in it - kind of like a tree house but that's their actual house.     - it was a good and close guess/answer.  :)

Doing some center work again.  They had to write the color word on the lines and color the duck to match.  Each sentence said:  I see a _______ duck. 

Another family craft we did to end with our unit.  They got to draw their family and trace/write the sentence: This is my family.  

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.