Do you like our crazy hair day pigtails?

Due to our snow-covered playground we spent much time indoors this week, so to get our energy out we went to the motor room. We jumped, climbed, swang, and danced! Our little friends really enjoyed singing and dancing to "The Wheels on the Bus." We crumpled tissue paper and pasted it on the a sheet of construction to make "truffula trees" and read Dr. Seuss's The Shapes of Me and Other Stuff.

Because of Dr. Seuss's birthday on March 2nd, this week's theme was Dr. Seuss. Today we painted a pond with bubble wrap. This was a fun was to explore new materials and a new method of painting. We also played with our sensory balloons and explore different textures. I suggest sensory balloons as an at home activity for your children, they love it! 

Today we enjoyed a new activity, our peg boards. We talked about the colors and shapes of the pegs and sorted them. We also built towers on them. One little friend made a tower of eight pegs! We also painted with marbles. We put a piece of paper on the inside of a Rubbermaid container, our little friend picked out a few different paint colors and squirted paint on the paper, and then she dropped the marbles in the container, we put the lid on, and then let the shaking begin! Look at the pictures to see her end result. 

Today we rolled right into Shapes week with circles. We played in the motor room, jumping on our circle trampoline and kicking and throwing balls. We went on a circle scavenger hunt in our classroom and found different circular objects and put them in our circle basket. We also read out book Touch and Feel Shapes.

Feb. 15 Newsletter

We had a fun day today! We played in the motor room this morning! We enjoyed bouncing on our horse Rody, swinging, and playing ball. We also played with our new peg and hammer toy and our aquarium. We danced and played our musical instruments while singing "Two Little Blackbirds" and "I Love You, You Love Me."

Valentine's Day

What a day! We had so much fun today celebrating valentines day. Play dough, paint, and making bird feeders. The children loved making bird feeders their favorite part was licking all the peanut butter off. Another thing we did today was make red playdough. We had fun making shapes with our cookie cutters.  We also had fun going on a heart hunt!

Today we painted with our feet! We painted with red, orange, yellow, green, white, black and purple. When all of the colors mixed together it looked like the skin of a dinosaur, so we made a big dinosaur to put on the outside of our classroom door. 

Today was quite an eventful day. We went outside and looked for dinosaur tracks. We looked at dinosaur fossils. We even made our own tracks in the grass as well! We danced around  the room singing "Where oh where did the dinosaur go"? But follow the leader was our favorite game of the day.

Today we started dinosaur week, so if you see these little tots stomping around it's because they are pretending to be dinosaurs! We looked at a few different types of dinosaurs and then we painted and made dinosaur feet. 

We had a very eventful Friday! We enjoyed books. Our book of the day was We're Going on a Bear Hunt. We set up a "bear hut" for the children and they walked around our dark room with flashlights looking for brown bears. Some were even brave enough to go into the bear cave! We practiced our fine motor skills with a lacing activity and painting clouds with cotton balls for our art activity.