Thursday September 4th

Happy birthday, Sydney! Thank you for bringing yummy cookies to share. Everyone loved them.

A is for apple and we learned the A sound. We also practiced writing the capital and lower case A.

We learned whey our names our special and why we have names. Then we sang, “My Name Is Brian,” where we got to insert everyone’s names into the song. I read Hooray for Me, which is one of my favorite children’s books. We did a name dance where the kids got to think of an action and say their names. Most chose the summersault but the second time around some wanted to show me how fast they could run, all where very impressive.

We had our first flannel board story about Johnny Appleseed. Then we got to paint pictures of our very own apple trees. Everyone told me how much they loved to paint and some discovered that if you mix green and red you make brown.

Our craft was to make a name plate. There was even more cutting involved in this craft so we split into two groups to complete it. Everyone had to cut on the red lines and then cut out the letters that would make their name. It was a lot of cutting, which is really good practice.

Tuesday, September 2nd

We had a great first day of preschool. Everyone was so excited to be there! We started by signing in. I have little papers with each child’s name written on in with dashed lines. They have to trace them before they can go and play. When everyone gets her we say the Pledge of Allegiance, glue on the days that have passed on our calendar, sing the days of the week song, the number song, and our abcs. We will start with these activities every day.

This month’s theme is Magnificent Me. We loved in the mirror so see if anyone looked just like us. We don’t have any twins, so everyone found that they were special. We sang “This Is Me, Me, Me!” It had actions, so the kids enjoyed it. For science we discovered our very own shadows. It moved just like we do.

Everyone had fun being traced to make Giant Paper Me’s, although no one was patient enough to color on all of their clothes. Our craft was a waving puppet. There was some cutting involved, which all three year olds love, and they struggled to only cut what they were supposed to. Some of the puppets legs had to be glued in multiple places. But who can resist cutting. All in all, we had a great first day.