Little Tree and Skip Counting

Today was fun as we started off reading "Little Tree", an adorable book about a tree who is afraid to let go of its leaves.

The kids then painted little tree with its leaves falling down.

In Math we used acorns to skip count up to 20!

Micah has wanted to do something with the yarn so badly we added that into our counting fun.

Catching up in November!

November has been a crazy month to keep up with the blog, but we have had so much fun in preschool! Here are some of our activities over the last two weeks.

November 7th we worked on letter names and sounds connecting with our names. The kids had their own cups which we filled with different items connected with the sound. They also traced each letter in their name while saying the sound.

Geo-boards were a hit as the kids made different shapes with rubber bands and then played!

In art we painted sunflowers!

November 9th we started our sensory alphabet! By the end of the year each child will take home their own set of alphabet letters to play with at home. For the first 3 letters we used Q-tips to dot them!

We worked on fine motor skills in Math as we buttoned pieces of felt to make snakes

And my favorite activity for this day... Ribbon Rings!

November 14th we started our thankful tree. We read books about being thankful and then added leaves (or painted hands) onto our tree for everything they were thankful for. We will continue adding onto our tree this month as we find more things to be grateful for.

 Learning numbers with legos!

Science.. Will it sink or will it float?

The kids had a blast making hypothesis and then experimenting!

Wanting more sensory we pulled out the beans again for fun :)

November16th - Sick Day

The morning of preschool Micah got sick so we decided to cancel preschool to be safe. I spent the morning scrubbing down walls, doors and anything else I could think of to make sure it spread no further! 

By the afternoon Micah was feeling a little better so I pulled out the pumpkin I worked so hard on and did our pumpkin-cano with just Micah and Charlotte. Lets just say, it was a HUGE hit!!

Fall Leaves

November starts our theme of Fall Leaves, Pumpkins and Thankfulness.

To kick off our new theme we read these books.

We then began working on our word boxes. With these boxes we added a few words they knew and now they can add words too. While at home they will get to continue adding words familiar to them and then branch out to other common words. This will help them become more familiar with common words and help encourage reading later.

In Math we collected and sorted different leaves, starting with a set inside and then moving outside to collect real leaves.

With our leaves we also observed them and discussed everything they noticed about them, the colors, shapes, size, differences and similarities.

To end our day we made glitter leaves and decorated our room and doors in many different leaves we had to celebrate fall.

Halloween Day in Preschool

Halloween was super fun yesterday!

Here is some of what we did

Snack Structures

Games and a dance party on a spider web!