Week of Sept 28

Our color this week was YELLOW!

We counted 5 Little Bees and read The Duck at the Door.

We are spending a little extra time working on following our classroom rules this week. We want to make sure all our little ones are kind to others, play safely, and listen to the teachers. We have been reminding them to use kind hands, not to run in the classroom, and to listen when the teacher is talking. We know this is a work in progress, but we know they will all catch on.

Our Sensory Center tub was full of black beans, flower pots, daisies, and shovels. Our little ones scooped and poured beans and planted flowers.

In our Art Center we created yellows sunflowers. We glued sunflower seeds in the middle of our flowers.

In our Fine Motor Center we used clothes pins and tweezers to pick up pom poms and place them in a container.

In our other Fine Motor Center we played with pegs and foam mats. We practiced inserting our pegs in the mat, removing them, and stacking the pegs.

One of our songs in Music Center was Bumble Bee. We flapped our tiny bumble bee wings and danced along!


On Thursday we had a visit from Silly Safari. Our little ones loved seeing all the animals. We got to meet a bunny, tortoise, rat, chicken, toad, kinkajous, baby alligator, owl, and a python. We got to pet most of the animals.

Our color next week is BLACK.
Our Star Students next week are Sophie and Junah.

As always, thank you for sharing your little ones with us. They are so much fun!

Week of September 21

We went to the sea for BLUE week.
Emmett and Ryleigh were our Star Students.

During Circle Time we sing a Hello song to welcome our friends, stretch, and work out our wiggles.

We read One Fish, Two Fish, Red Fish, Blue Fish and The Pout-Pout Fish in the Big-Big Dark.

For our Art Center we also worked on our fine motor skills. We used eye droppers to apply blue water colors to coffee filters. We will add sea creatures to our ocean scene next week.

One of our Fine Motor Centers was making an ocean scene with stickers. When our little ones use stickers they work on their hand control and pincher grasp. These skills will help them with pencil control and hand writing later on.

For our Skill Center our little ones sorted Colored Gold Fish Crackers by color. They might have eaten just a few.

For our Sensory Center Mrs. Lana made us some great blue play dough. We added sea creatures and decorations. Working with play dough helps to strengthen our hand muscles.

We also added some challenge activities this week. We worked on a Fine Motor Challenge of lacing with Jellyfish. We played a shape matching game as a Skill Challenge. 

Next week we will focus on the color YELLOW.

Week of September 14

Blue was our color this week.

We read the book The Little Blue Truck.

For our Sensory Center, we played with monster trucks in pinto beans.

Our Fine Motor Center was a big hit. We played with blue cars. We drove them on roads around a play mat.

For our Skill Center, we matched colored Pom poms to colored trucks.

In our story, the little blue truck got stuck in the mud. For our Art Center, we painted our own muddy blue trucks.

It was such a nice day Wednesday this week, we decided to paint the fence. We filled our bucket with water and our little ones had a blast painting the playground fence.

Every day during music time we learn new songs and dances.

Reminder:

- School Pictures Sept 23 & 24

- Ryleigh and Emmett are the star students for next week.