Monday, September 23, 2019

wild about the Zoo


A wild week in our room...from crafts, to counting to even zoo yoga! We were wild about the zoo theme.

For our letter Z...we zipped zippers, tore stripes for our Z is for Zebra page (an amazing fine motor skill), did our letter hunt, and our independent dot sheet.

 For our number (I know I said 5 this week...but I decided to keep it at 4). We rolled a dot cube and placed cherri-o’s on that number that was on a giraffe. We also placed animal crackers on a sheet to do staircase counting 1-4. This helps with not only 1:1 counting but in understanding the value off each number. Please be working with your kiddo counting up to 5 objects and just verbally counting to 5.

During craft time we turned our sweet faces into lions...these are super cute! I have put them in the hallway! We also made some fun coffee filter peacocks. The kiddos love to paint with water colors.

We borrowed from Mrs. Rachel some fun foam animal shapes to string onto a pipe cleaner. This is amazing fine motor work as well as hand/eye coordination.

I had found a cool website that had kids “zoo yoga” So we did some fun stretches and poses in class. This was a fun little workout for them.

So many fun books surrounding the zoo theme. Mem Fox writes a cute book called, Zoo-Looking. We also read some non-fiction books like If I had animal hair. This is a cute series.  Read the poem I sent home and maybe have your kiddos see if they can find the letter Zz in it.

We are continuing learning that God made Everything and he said it is good. This week we learned that he made the Stars, the moon, and the sun.



This week we started looking at their names and working on putting the letters of their name in order. 

At home this week: 
1. Ask your kiddo to tell you the letter their name starts with
2. Count out 4 objects
3. Find the letter Zz's in their poem I sent home

All about Me!

I love that these kiddos feel so special to share things they love!

independent dot sheet

Zz Letter hunt

animal cracker counting. Here we are starting to understand value.

building a love of reading


shadow matching

washing the zoo animals


A little car washing too!


Painting peacocks 





 Friday
Thanks for your help in making their favorite zoo animal. Together we made a "Class Zoo"


Tearing stripes for their "Z"ebra.
This is a great fine motor skill. The smaller the paper they tear the stronger their fingers are!




Putting the letters of their names together to make a zoo animal. 

freeing zoo animals. This is also a great fine motor skill!



All about me!

Making their lion faces...



Our zoo




What a great week. I look forward to seeing everyone tomorrow at the Trike-a-thon!

Monday, September 16, 2019

Apples, Apples, Apples


What a fun and tasty week.  So many hands-on activities this week.

We worked on the letter Aa this week. We are starting to look at our friend's names...seeing if we can recognize if their names have the letter of the week in it. So many names have the letter Aa. We did our weekly letter hunt and sorted capital and lowercase Aa's. The kiddos peeled apple stickers to fill in the letter A.

We did some staircase counting with the number 4 (apple baskets). I sent these activities home...try practicing them with your kiddos. We also rolled a dot cube and added that number of apples to our trees...using tweezers

The kiddos had so much fun making some yummy baked apples in our classroom and they got to try yellow, red, and green apples and graphed our favorites.

Lots of painting this week in our room...from sponge painting...painting our hands...and even q-tip painting! Is it really preschool if we don't get messy?


This week we continued our bible focus on creation. We are on day 3...he created The land, plants, and trees.

This week try:
1. Doing the apple basket sheet I sent home.
2. Count to 10
3. Count 4 objects.
4. Tell you if they have the letter Aa in their name.

Continuing the All about Me bucket! I so loving hearing about what makes them special!
He let me wear his favorite hat from his favorite store!




Letter Aa hunt


Here we rolled a dot cute and added "apples" to our tree. The kicker is they had to use tweezers to put them on. So not only is this a great counting skill that displays value...but a great fine motor skill too!










Apple tasting...which kind is your favorite?




Our sweet palm print apples...with our thumbprint for the worm!


 Friday:
Q-tip painting






measuring how big we are with apples!


Aa is for apple...sticker peeling is a great fine motor skill


sorting by size

staircase counting...
we put 1 apple in the 1 basket
2 apples in the 2 basket
Try doing this sheet at home with your kiddo.



stacking cups




Mrs. Rachel's class joined us to make baked apples! Yum!! We got to try them at snack... 



painting our apple shaker...



he is just the cutest!

Erupting apples






They couldn't get enough of this fun and simple activity!


What a fun week! I am already looking forward to Zoo week this week!