Tuesday, September 30th

We learned about the number three. We practiced counting to three and writing the number three.

Our next topic was the start of Fall. We talked about the signs of fall and the kids were able to tell me the signs even though fall hasn’t really started here in Texas. We did “Whirly Twirly Leaves” as our craft. We did Five Little Squirrels fingerplay and sang “The Leaves are Falling Down.” The kids’ favorite activity of the day was pretending they were leaves. First they swayed in the wind, then fluttered, twirled, and finally laid flat on the ground. They really liked pretending to be raked up and piling up.

During free play time I got out the mega blocks for the kids to play with. We finished with a story and outside play time.

Thursday, September 25th

Today we learned how to write the letter C. Then we had our introduction to shapes. We sorted a big pile of shapes into piles of circles, triangles, squares, and rectangles. For our craft we made a “Shape City.” We split into two groups to do this project.

Everyone enjoyed bouncing different shapes on a sheet stretched between us. Then we played Hullaballoo the uses lots of shapes on the floor. We got to design our own picture by gluing shapes on piece of black construction paper. The girls liked doing that so much that they made two pictures. We finished our day by playing outside.

Tuesday, September 23rd

I introduced the letter C and we sponge painted around a cut out letter see to leave a C print. (They will come home on Thursday. They weren’t dry when the kids left.) We talked about the C sound and named some words that start with C.

Today was Blue Day? We looked at our blue dinosaur poster and pointed out all the blue things the kids wore today. They using three glasses of water and blue food coloring, I made three different shades of blue. We talked about how they were all blue but were lighter or darker.

Our craft was our “Awesome Blue Crown.” This took a lot of gluing and following instructions, and they did great. They were very proud to wear their crowns.

We played “Walk The Blue Line.” I made a line with blue painters tape. The kids had fun balancing on it. Then each kid filled a bin with blue toys they found in the playroom. They got to show the rest of the class what they found.

After clean up we sang some songs, colored a blue picture with markers, and did some puzzles. Then we had outside play time until the mom’s came.

We missed Sydney today because she is in Utah!

Thursday, September 18

The kids were introduced to the number two. We named all the parts of our body that we have two of. Then we did the fingerplay “Two, Two.” We then practiced writing twos.

Today was our introduction to colors. We named each color, matched colors, and named our favorite color. Then I showed them house primary colors make secondary colors using water and food color. They were pretty impressed.

Our craft was to create a “Cool Color Concentration” game. The kids got to glue and take home a game that they made. Hopefully you will all get a chance to play the game with your child. You play it just like memory.

We looked around the room to find things in certain colors. This was tough because instead of just telling me what they saw in the color, they wanted to bring it to me.J We also solved some riddles about colors.

After clean up, we drew rainbows with markers. Everyone did a great job!

Tuesday, September 16

We started with the letter B and practiced writing it. Then we talked about “Being a Family.” Everyone told me who is in their family and then we looked at flannel board pictures of kids helping their family by doing chores. The kids then thought of chores they could do to help at home.

Our craft was “Whose House Is It?” They got to color, cut, glue, draw, and put on stickers. They had to match up who lived in what house. We sang “Who Is In Your Family? They really enjoy running around in a circle while we sing.

We also talked about how we grow and change. They pointed out how we can tell that someone is older than us. We also learned that we can weigh and measure ourselves to know if we have grown. Each child got weighted and measured. They enjoyed seeing their names on the growth chart. We will pull it back out again at the end of the year. We sang the song “I Am Growing.”

After clean up time Tyler begged me to let them do puzzles. He loves the Lightning McQueen puzzle and now asks to do it every time he is here. The girls did a puzzle and the boys completed a puzzle.

Thursday, September 11th

We continued our Magnificent Me theme and talked about feelings today. We talked about how they felt when they woke up and how they felt now. We also talked about situations where one child might be sad while another might be happy. Using flannel board pictures, the kids had to guess how the person in the picture was feeling. Then we played a game where they had to say, “good morning,” as if they felt happy, sad, excited, and so on. Our craft was “The Story of Me.” This was a lot of drawing which some enjoyed more than others. Everyone liked getting their fingers printed. During the “Happy Hearts” game the kids had to move from one heart to the next while the music is playing. Once it stops, everyone has to get on a heart. A heart is taken away each time, but instead of being out, the kids had to share. They thought it was pretty funny for all of them to be on the same heart during the last round. We did a Lightning McQueen puzzle, at Tyler’s request. Our last 15 minutes was spent outside. We missed you Cameron and hope you feel better soon.

Tuesday, September 9th

I introduced the number one and the kids practiced writing it, along with counting groups of objects. We sang “One Elephant.” Sunday was Grandparents Day, so we talked about grandparents and made them cards. To make the card the kids got to cut up pieces of paper and glue them onto a heart. They sure love to cut. We sang “Oh, Grandpa! Oh, Grandma!” and did fingerplay called “Grandma’s Spectacles”. We played a sorting game where the kids got to sort “Grandpa’s” socks. They were all able to pick out matches, so put them to work when you are doing laundry.