Shapes all a-round and square-d away

Things "shaped" up nicely this last week as we discovered shapes all around us! We started the week with this shape block painting project. Check out our creations!

We talked about the letters E and F this week, and we really enjoyed making this circles frog for the letter F.  

Which shape is it? It was a "toss up" with our shaped bean bag toss. We tried to get the shape bean bag into its corresponding floor shape. 

We worked on our fine motor skills with these snap, button, and velcro bands by makes shapes of all sorts and sizes!

 We worked on forming our shapes with rubber bands on our geoboards. 

For our writing centers this week, we made our uppercase letter E and F. We used our dot markers to form the letter E, and crayon rubbings to form our letter F.

For our math center, we created pictures with these big button pictures. After the kids had filled their pictures with the correct shaped buttons, they counted the buttons and added that numbered puzzle piece to their picture. 

For dramatic play, we made creations with these sticky shapes blocks. You all have such creative kids!

Our peg board shapes were fun build, unbuild, and build again!

We also had fun listening to our hot dot dogs. They light up green when you push on the correct answer, and red when you choose incorrectly. They also talk and let us know that we got our answers correct!

Don't you just love those faces!!

And, We played memory match-up with our shapes. 

Book of the week: Shapes All Around by Anita Loughrey

Song of the week: Shapes Song

http://www.mrsjonesroom.com/songs/shapes.html

We celebrated a birthday for this cutie pie!

Happy, Happy Birthday Peyton!

We even had a special pet visitor for show-n-tell this week. Thanks for sharing Kody!

Secondary colors

Now that we know the primary colors, we talked about what colors we get when we mix the primary colors together....the secondary colors! We talked about the letter C this week, so what a better project than a color wheel!?

We had playdough in the three primary colors for a color mixing center. The color wheel was so fun to mix-up that the kids wanted to see what other colors they could make too.

And, we also had this water dropper center where the kids had so much fun watching more color mixing magic happen. We started with clear water, added the 3 primary colors, and used more cups of clear water to mix the primary colors with our water droppers. 

We each took turns playing colors hyperdash. The kids had to follow instruction on which color to press, and were timed doing it so they got so excited when they beat their own time.

We also worked on our cutting skills for letter C this week. We had curvy and jagged lines for that we followed as we sang our scissors song:

(Tune of London Bridge)

Keep your thumb up when you cut, when you cut, when you cut.

Keep your thumb up when you cut,

and squeeze the blades together.

At this color mixing center, we had a bunch of different manipulatives to help us mix our colors!

For a writing center this week we formed our letters with our colorful craft sticks. Check out Eliza's E!

We also talked about the letter D this week. We had a drawing center for the kids to come draw and create!

Lexi and her friends really enjoyed these 2 piece color puzzles. They had them done in record time!

For a fine motor activity, we practiced stringing beads in the order of the rainbow.

These jumbo crayons had a lot of fun items in them of their corresponding color for our sorting center. 

And these colorful shape builders brought imagination to life in our dramatic play center. We had rocket ships flying to the moon, and carousels at the fair!

Book of the week: I Love Colors by Hans Wilhelm

We were happy to celebrate another birthday this week!

Happy Birthday to Ellie!!