The Primary Colors

Go red! Wait, go blue! This week there was no discrimination among the color red, or the color blue. :) We had equal fun with red, blue, and yellow....our primary colors. And,our whole week was centered around this trio!

For an art project, we made these primary color gumball machines. We worked on our shapes, our colors,and our counting skills!

For a math center this week, we played Connect 4, and connect 4 launchers. THE perfect game for primary colors week, right!? We worked on getting 4 in a row, and making patterns with our red and yellow chips. 

We also practiced our counting with these math stacking chips. We each took a stacking base, drew one of the numbers out of our number box, and counted out and stacked that many chips. Great number recognition, counting, and great for fine motor.

Welearned about the letters A and B this week. We enjoyed this red apple counting center and discussed how apples are a primary color, and start with the letter A to make the "ah" sound.

We also traced our letter B with glue and added primary colored buttons. B is for button, and makes the sound "buh".

We practiced forming our letter B with our magnetic chips. The best part about this is that after we are done, we get to use our "magic" (magnetic) wands to pick up our chips and start over.

We played some B ball this week! Wehad some balls that were labeled with either a uppercase or a lowercase letter B, and the kids would look at it, and make a shot into the corresponding basket. Who said learning wasn't fun?!

We practiced writing our A's and B's, (and other letters) with our magnetic writing boards. 

We workedon our cutting skills with blue playdough this week. Playdough is such a great medium to use for scissor practice! It is also really fun to cut! We talked about the color blue, and how blue starts with the letter B.

We practiced our AB and ABB primary color patterns with our primary colors counting bears. 

Primary colors puzzles!

We strengenthed our dexterity abilities by beading with our primary colors macaroni. 

We were lucky enough to celebrate two birthdays this week!

A big Happy birthday wish to Brielle!

and

a Happy Birthday hoorah for Kendrick!

1st Day of School!

What an exciting first day of school! Today our focus was on becoming comfortable in our new preschool setting, and getting to know our friends. We played some getting to know you games where we learned a bit about each other, and some name games to help learn our friends names. 

We also worked on recognizing our own names by sight with these name puzzles below. We worked on putting them in order in class, and brought them home to practice at home as well. They did a great job!! It is helpful to note to them that their first letter in their name is an uppercase letter, and that the rest of the letters are lowercase.

We also talked about teamwork today, and how when we work as a team, things get done quicker everyone is happy. We used these team walkers, and they had a hard time doing them at first, until they figured out how to work together and use some good communication skills.

We also had some interactive block and magnet centers, not only just for fun, but to help the kids learn how we rotate from center to center and transition in the classroom. 

And, we had to discuss the rules of course. They are short and simple. One of the big problems that I have with the kids at this age is sharing, and hitting if they don't share. If you would just talk with your kids about what sharing means, that would be greatly helpful to me!! :) 

We celebrated two birthdays this week! A big birthday hoorah to both Bridger and Rocky!

Happy Birthday Bridger!

Happy Birthday Rocky!