Friends & Family

What another great week...our school year is off to an amazing start! This week we learned about the letter Ff and continued with the number 1. I so enjoyed learning all about your families...and the kiddos loved sharing!

Thursday:

Sharing their sweet family houses!

Our fun weekly poem! I have added a class picture list along with their names to the poetry folder so you can practice these sweet poems throughout the year!

Fingerprints and families! I just treasure these sweet things!

Oh so proud!

Such sweet friends!

Bubble Time!

Looking closely at the butterfly they caught. We were able to pass it around and let many of the kiddos hold it before it flew off!

Counting our family members. This is a great skill to build their 1:1 correspondence (1:1 counting). At this age it is a tough skill. Often their fingers move slower than they can count. So we will work on building a strong foundation on this throughout the year. You can have them help you count at home!  

Letter Ff practice. Even as we learn about the letters we are also beginning to work on that pencil grip. As the year goes on I will give you some great ideas on how to help foster this skill. 

Picture Perfect! The kiddos get so proud to frame their sweet families! I love sending treasures like this home!

Time for our friendship recipe. We talked about what makes a wonderful friend and then made our concoction. 

Everyone got to add to it! We are all friends and treat everyone with love in our hearts!

 Friday:

Puppet show time!

Decorating our friend frames! 

Legos and dinosaurs..oh my!

building a marble run...such great engineers!

Ok parents! Take a close look! This may not look like anything special...but this is HUGE!! Peeling stickers (especially ones like this) is very challenging for these tiny fingers. It is also such an important skill to strengthen those sweet hands. A super duper fine motor skill!

So proud!

Diving into a good book with friends...

She shared her bucket and her sweet voice! This precious gal gave us a treat and sang!

This love shared his favorite book! We LOVE Dr. Seuss! 

All about #1 They loved pretending to be a train and shouting out "!" every time our fingers touched it!

Ff is for feathers!

letter hunt...such great detectives. I LOVE this activity. By the end of the year these kiddos master this sheet and can finish it independently in about 5 seconds! I love how they grow throughout the year!

Our bible verse bracelets and celebration that Jesus is our friend!
Here is the website I use to teach kiddos about our weekly verses...
http://www.preschoolpost.com/JulyMagnets.html#.V8Lgb2TF_6I
 

We cooked our "friendship recipe" over night... And this is how it came out!

We are all friends here!

Next week we will be learning about Pets!

A New Beginning!

What a wonderful start to this new school year. I feel super blessed to have each and everyone of these sweet kiddos in my room! I can't wait to see what this wonderful year holds. This week we worked on the theme, "All about Me!" The number 1 and the letter M. My goal this year is to make learning a fun and hands-on experience...and incorporate much needed social play!

Thursday:

Such sweet friends!

She loves cars!

Oh...So many legos! Where to begin??

A little cooking and dress up time!

A sweet princess at a puppet show.

Dinosaurs galore!

Play time!

Cheese!!

Preschool is hard work!

Snack time with friends! YUM!

Independent dot sheet. Learning about the letter Mm

One special fingerprint.
This year we will also be working on proper pencil grip. I will often send home some great tips to encourage that grip!

Mm is for marshmallows!

After reading, "A Pocket Full of Kisses" we made special handprints...and added a sweet heart with a kiss from us! We hope this warms your heart!

I love handprints...We will make so many this year. I hope that you treasure them as much as I do! Just remember...their hands will never be this small again (tears).

After listening to the book, "Pete the Cat...Rocking in his school shoes." We had to show off our school shoes! 

Our sweet friends "Rocked their first day of preschool!"

Our first day emotions!

 Friday:

When I grow up I want to be...
These will be in your kiddo's end of the year portfolio. I love to ask this at the beginning and the ending of the year so see how they grow and change.

Her response made me giggle! I think she was truly referring to the color I was writing with...but I wrote down exactly what she said! 

How much will we grow this year?

Play time with our friends! What are they cooking up?

This was our poem of the week. The kiddos are such great readers. On Friday we went hunting for the letter Mm throughout the poem. They are super smart and great letter detectives!

Mm is for macaroni. I love this activity because it is a great fine motor skill. It is hard work for those sweet kiddos to pinch and grasp such small noodles. I will spend a great deal of time this year focusing on those fine motor skills and strengthening those sweet hands and fingers!

Some things you can do at home....using scissors allowing them to cut play-doh or yarn. Tearing and/or hole punching paper or play-doh.

Our self portraits. Check these out on my bulletin board in the hallway.

Great tracing sweet buddy...and look at that rockstar pencil grip!

Stamping the letter Mm. 

Puppet show and giggles!

Sweet buddies! Melts my heart!

A life size doll house...and a perfect sweet gal!

A movie star in the making! 

Again...what a super week. I am so blessed to have each one of these sweet kiddos. Next week our theme will be Family and Friends...we will work on the number 1 and the letter Ff. Can't wait to see those faces next week! Have a super blessed weekend! Hugs!