Today we wiggled like caterpillars through our caterpillar tunnel. We did the butterfly dance with our scarves and sang "The Butterfly Song." We played catch and compared the different sizes and textures of our bouncy balls.

We had a fun day today! We really enjoyed stacking and building. We built towers with large blocks and Legos and stacked our nesting cups. We read one of our Eric Carle books, Rooster's Off to See the World.  As we read it we labeled, counted and imitated the animals in the book. We also started our contact paper butterflies that will be sent home later this week. 

Caterpillars and Big Adventures!

This morning we worked our gross motor skills and had a big adventure playing on the preschooler playground! We rode tricycles, went down the big slide, push and pulled our friends in the wagon, played the playground instruments, and played in the house and the tunnel. Our little friends love to take it over! Thankfully, we beat the rain! We also read The Very Hungry Caterpillar and made our very own hand print caterpillars.

Brown Bear and Cotton balls!

This week is Eric Carle week. Today we read one of our favorite books, Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See? As we read the book we engaged in physical, verbal, and cognitive skills. We practiced our colors, animal sounds, and animal movements of each animal in the book. The goldfish page came to be a favorite throughout the day when the children where shown how to make fish lips. We did a fun activity with cotton balls.We explored their texture and practiced our fine motor skills by using tongs, scoops and our fingers to pick up the cotton balls. We also had fun playing outside with chalk, balls, and our ride on toys.

Friends Week

Today we did a lot of reading! Busy Fingers, Hands Can, Tickle Tickle, and Animal Noises were some favorites today. We sang and danced to our favorite kids songs. "Ring Around the Rosie" was a favorite song today. We also celebrated one little friend's birthday!

Playing Ball and Popping Bubbles!

Today we tried out a new activity we have never done before! We played with foamy bubbles and had a blast! First we just played and felt around in the bubbles. Things got really messy when brought our spoons, whisks, and cups into the mix. We talked about sharing with friends, ways friends can look different, and how good it is to have friends.We danced to Jack Johnson's "The Sharing Song", sang "1,2,3 You Are Friends With Me", and read Shades of Black: A Celebration of Our Children. 

Helping Hands!

Today we found a new way to paint that our little friends really enjoyed. We mixed flour, salt, and food coloring to make our paint. After painting our pictures we put them in the microwave for 40 seconds and the paint puffed up! It made a very neat textured painting for the kids to feel. One little friend decided it would be nice to help out her friend with her painting. We also played Peek-a-Boo, follow the leader and  read our book My Friend.

Working together as friends!

 We learned about cultural differences by reading Global Babies today. We looked at the different cultures, and races of babies around the globe. During art we paired up to work on a project together as a friendly team. We helped each other out to get our picture accomplished

Hugs and Hopping!

This weeks is Friends Week. Today we talked about nice gestures that friends share such as hugs, helping hands, smiling faces, and lots of giggles. We had a friend who really liked to give out hugs today! We sang and danced to our friendly song "You Are My Sunshine" and read the book as well. We also read Owen and Mzee Best Friends. Our little friends had lots of fun with Mrs. Lynn reading and participating in our active book Llama Llama Hoppity-Hop.

Friends hug!

Llama Llama, touch your toes!

Firetrucks/ Towers

Fun, fun, fun is how our day went. This tower was our favorite toy for the day. We all worked together taking turns to play with the tower. Today we talked a lot about emergency vechicles. We got out our firetruck and all the children went to our dramatic play area and grabbed costumes. We had  a chef, firefighter, police officer, mail lady and a doctor. The firefighter got into the drivers spot and we took a trip. Singing a song to the tune of the wheels on the bus, but changing out the words to the wheels on the firetruck overall a really good day.

Roll,Roll,Roll

"Roll, Roll, Roll"is what the children said all day today.
We got out our ramps and had some fun rolling
 our cars down to the bottom.

 A few of our friends stopped by to stand on the side lines and watch as we started the race.

Racing our cars down to the bottom with our little friends on the side to watch and cheer us on.

We talked today about things that go fast, slow,up, down and transportation that is big and small.
 Also today we had a blast singing and dancing to Great Big silver Airplane by Big Smith

What We Did Today!

Today we vroom vroomed around the room! We read our books Trucks and Little Car. We also sang our one of our songs of the week "Vroom Vroom." We also discovered another form of transportation that we didn't think about at first. Horses! 

What We Did Today!

We had a freight of fun today! We built towers on lego cars, read our book Planes, made and drove on construction paper roads, and made a transportation board. We looked at our transportation board and asked our little friends to point out certain types of transportation. One little friend said she found her daddy's truck! 

What We Did Today!

We jump started Transportation Week by singing and dancing to transportation related songs. We sang "Row, Row, Row Your Boat" and "I'm a Little Piece of Tin." Our little friends really enjoyed driving their cars around our little town and through the car wash.

Quilts and Blankets

What We Did Today!

Today we got messy and creative painting "quilt squares" for our classroom quilt. We can't wait to show you the end result! 

What We Did Today!

We had a lot of fun today singing our song "Six on a Blankie." Miss Jada came in after school and sang the song and played with us. 

"Six on a Blankie"

There were six in the bed, 

And the little one said, "Roll over! Roll over!" 

So they all rolled over and one fell off!

Miss Jada fell off!

And then Miss Daria!

And then just the little one was left! 

What We Did Today!

Today two of our little friends brought in their favorite quilts to share with the class. Our little friends thought it was very amusing to sit on the quilts and pull each other around the room. We also explored different types of fabrics and felt the differences in their textures.