Open House is around the corner!

The preschool open house will be held on August 22nd from 5:30-7:30 PM. Please stop by anytime for a meet and greet and activity for the kids. If I don't have your paperwork, make sure you bring it with you! The first day of school will be held on September 5th or 6th. I hope that your children are as excited as I am!

"Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What do you see?"

I got some un'bear'ably cute pictures of your kids with their bears for our bear theme. We had a lot of fun with them doing a bear hunt, and they even got a ride on the parachute. We had the bears take turns according to their color and size.

We practiced our months of the year with these themed bears. I had the month word strips hung on the wall in order, and the kids used them to put the bears in order.

For a math center we had our cookie bear counters. Each bear had a different number of hearts on its tummy, and we put them in order, counted by two, and went backwards from 1-10.

We got our hands moving and our zippers grooving with our bear zip and buckle puzzles. The kids loved this fine motor activity, they thought it was especially funny that the bear had his underpants on under his clothes!

We talked about different types of bears like the polar bear, the brown bear, black bears, and panda bears. Below you can check out the kids making their textured brown bears with chocolate chips!

We spring in the air, and a lot of cotton!, we reviewed the four seasons and made our 4-seasons puzzles. 

Song: Going on a bear hunt

Words of the week: Bear and Hug

Star of the week:

Our star this week is Mario Bros. number one fan, the guy with the best, most contagious laugh around! He's the aspiring rockstar.......the joyous James!

Your little sprouts!

We hear the saying a lot, "He is growing like a weed." These little sprouts you guys are growing are nothing like weeds! They are blooming into quite the best bunch around! I have enjoyed watching them blossom so much! Check them out this week. They grew some things of our own too. I hope their little greenhouses sprouted their lima bean seeds for them to watch at home.

Here Mark is checking out the mystery bag. We had nature items hidden inside and they had to look at a card with a picture on it, and try to pull that item out of the bag without peeking.

We also checked out some plants from seed, to plant, to vegetable. We had a peanut, a watermelon seed, a peach pit, and more!

We practiced writing our names with these jello worms! Slimy and slippery just like the real thing. I still convinced a few to try them though!

Yum......I think?!

We also had fun making your Mother's Day gifts. We hope you liked them as much as we did!

Sorry, I haven't been as good about taking pictures and posting lately. So much to do, so little time! We also did some pussy willow paintings, gummy worms math, and a flower shop center. In the flower shop center, we had our cash registers, flowers and seeds with price tags on them, and real money to pay for our things. They are doing great with their addition skills!

Book of the week: The Tiny Seed by Eric Carle

Words of the week: Bud and Stem

Stars of the week!:

Below you will see our fun and fashionable friend, and always happy, Hillie!

and

the boating babe, and dress-up diva, the adorable Aubrey!

Spirit week and all things magnetic

Hats off  on to spirit week at school!

We talked about what a hero is this week, and who we consider heroes. And, just so you know, YOU moms and dads made it to the list even before the superheroes did. :)

We played superhero and shrek 3-D matching games. Half of their body is hidden under one cup, with the other half under another, and you try to match up each character.

We worked on our creativity with these wedgits. If you've never heard of these before, check them out. They are hours of fun!

We did some superhero comparisons with our balance scale.

We also talked about magnets this week. I explained a bit about how magnets attract and repel, and different materials that are magnetic. Here Brett is doing a magnetic "magic" trick. He has the round magnet on his hand, and a big, rectangular magnet underneath. By moving the magnet underneath, the top magnet flips over.

We practiced our names and other words with our magnetic writing boards!

We also used these giant magnetic letters to work on putting the alphabet in order. It is fun when we do alphabetical order....I get to hear the ABC's sung all morning!

The kids were thrilled about another "magic" trick we learned with magnets and paperclips. We magically got every paperclip out of the vases filled with water, without touching the water and getting wet! They thought this was so fun! But, I also think they started to grasp how a magnet works and that it really isn't magic at all.

We covered our numbers with magnetic chips and used our magnetic wands to clean up.

Another dramatic play center were these magnetic gears. There are only two gears that have a handle on them, but if the kids put them together properly, every gear will turn with just one of the handles. They created a lot of different patterns and really got their own gears turning!

and still, more magnetic fun! 

They thought that it was so fun to watch the magnetic ball move around on the table by using a magnet underneath.

Star of the week:

Our first star is the superstar sister and adorably cute and cuddly, Kennadee!

and

our second star is the super silly yet skillful and smart, Jacob!

Happy 5th Birthday to the magnificent Morgan! We got to spend the morning of her actual birthday with her, boy are we lucky! That smile is irresistible!