Week 4: Bb is for Band-aid

Week 4, already? We are having so much fun!  We talked about the letter Bb this week. We made and played things that started with the letter Bb!  Each Tuesday we will be making a letter like our Apple stamp "Aa" and our Band-aid "Bb", if you would like to start a little binder with all of them, at the end of the year you would have a great little ABC book.  You can punch holes in them or get plastic page protectors and slide them in each week...just an idea.  I happen to have 10 or so extra binders that are taking up garage space if you don't have an extra one laying around, I'd be happy to donate. Just let me know on Tuesday!

Free time...playing games and making friends :)

Continuing on our "about me" theme this month...our feeling puppets!

Here are the words to go along with our puppets...a kind of extended version to If Your Happy & You Know, think of it as the hidden track :)!

If your mad and you know if stomp your feet,
If your mad and you know if stomp your feet,
If your mad and you know it, then your face will really show it,
if your mad and you know it stomp your feet!

If your excited and you know it give a gasp...etc.

If your tired and you know give a yawn...etc.

If your sad and you know it say boo-hoo...etc.

If your happy and you know clap your hands...etc.

Week 3

This year I created a shelf specific to center time activities.  I always had all these fun games and supplies tucked away in a tub the kids couldn't see!  This year I decided to put it all out so it is visible to the kids and not out of site out of mind!!  Everything on this shelf, the kids know they have to ask miss Kelli to use but they can us anything on it during our centers time! Well the girls discovered the stamps and I had a hard time prying them away from them to move on to music :)!!

Have I ever mentioned how much fun we have during music time!?!?  The kids are so animated and their little personalities just come out! Above they are singing If You're Happy and You Know It, with a few different verses I added since we are talking about our emotions and feelings this month!

Aa is for apple stamps!

Loving this warm weather!!

"I feel____when I___."  More talking about those feelings and emotions.

Week 2 Highlights: Friendship

Another good week here at school!  This week we focused on Friends.  We are all different and that is what makes us great!  We painted ourselves some friends, aren't they so cute in their painting shirts! (Well not all of us wanted paint shirts...)

We made friendship necklaces...and might have eaten a few in the process :)!

While I couldn't find it at our great local library, the book, Friends of Many Colors, we did talk about it! We talked about how everyone is different, we have different hair,  different eyes and different talents.  But together we make school fun.  When we all play together we can have fun activities, play a game of basketball, have a good game of imagining! Just like fruit loops, they are all different and when we put them all together, they look so pretty (and maybe taste so yummy). And we wont mention that this was an educational activity to the kids, great fine motor skills activity!!

Now on to our gross motor skills...A friendly game of basketball.

 

The kids had so much fun sharing their posters.  They were so funny.  They all wanted to share at the same time and were so excited to show everyone their family!!  I'll send these home in couple weeks when we are all done enjoying them!

During morning free time I try to offer different enrichment activities at the table.  They are always welcome to just play, it is called free time but I try to offer some more structured educational actives for those kids that want it! So this week, was counting (fine motor too) and hand eye coordination (also fine motors).