4 year old class- Letter C week!

Wow... I am soooo not good at updating the preschool blog! I can't believe it has been 2 weeks since we had our "C is for Cookie" day!

The kids loved making their letter C cookies...I gave them a few extra chocolate chips to munch on when they finished their paper cookie!

So of course, the next day we had to make real cookies for snack time! Yum! :)

O Christmas Tree

The three year olds used watercolors to paint Christmas trees:

They turned out great! :)

Happy SinterKlaas Day (early!)

We talked about how they celebrate Christmas in Holland. On December 6th, they celebrate Sinterklaas Day. The children place their wooden shoes by the fireplace and fill them with carrots and hay for Sinterklaas' horse. In the morning, they hope their shoes will be filled with treats and gifts from Sinterklaas. We decided to try it out in our class!

And it worked! We put our shoes by the fireplace and went back to class to do our work. Before we went home we went to check our shoes and guess what? Sinterklaas left treats for us! He even left treats for the kids who were absent today! Lucky! The kids LOVED this! :)

Today was just one of those wonderful days at preschool- the kind that makes me love what I do! I am so lucky!

Firestation Field Trip!

What better way to learn about the letter "F" than to go on a Field trip to the Firestation! The Eagle Mountain Fire Department did a great job and we had lots of fun on our field trip last Friday!

Thank you, parent volunteers! We couldn't have gone without you! :)

C is for Clouds!

In my Friday three year old class we learned about the letter C... we practiced writing the letter C, we learned the "C is for Cookie" song, ate cookies for our snack, and made clouds. Too fun!

Dinosaur Day

Yesterday was our much anticipated "Dinosaur Day" in the 4 year old class. We read books about dinosaurs, ate dinosaur fruit snacks and even watched a little dinosaur movie, but the thing the kids loved most of all was making our "dinosaur fossils." They had so much fun stamping footprints in salt dough, then I threw them in the oven for awhile. After they baked, the kids had a really hard time not eating them! Maybe next year we'll make our "fossils" out of sugar cookie dough! :)

C is for Cookie!

We have had fun this week learning the letter C! Today we made pretend cookies.... and we ate plenty of the 'extra' chocolate chips! :) Tomorrow we will be making real chocolate chip cookies for our snack (if you count frozen cookie dough as 'making'- which I totally do!). It will be fun!

P.S. Have your child sing you the "C is for Cookie" song- they have done a great job learning it this week!

Apple Day with the 3 Year Olds!

We had a fun apple day today! We made an apple puppet, tasted apples, drank apple juice, sang a song about apples and used apples in our art project:

(we used apples as stamps to create our art project!)

We also learned about the letter A, the number 0, the color RED, and had show and tell. It was a fun day! :)

Breakfast with a Book!

We celebrated the letter "B" today with "Breakfast with a Book!

" It was so much fun! :)

Apple Art

We had a fun apple day! Here is a picture of our "Apple Artwork!"

Cornbelly's!

We had a great time on our field trip! I want to say THANK YOU to our parent helpers- you were great!

We saw some joke-telling chickens, raced rubber duckies, went in a small corn maze, went on a hay ride, and got to pick pumpkins from the pumpkin patch. There was so much to do there, but we only got to do a few things. I hope your preschooler had fun!

The singing/joke telling chickens.

Going in the "Snake" Maze

Sorry we were late getting back- thank you for understanding! :)

Witches and Frankenstein!

Today we got to make puppets! I let the kids choose between a Witch and a Frankenstein. I was surprised that they all picked the Witch.... Frankenstein was actually my favorite! :) Doing an art project like this can get a little wild and crazy- especially with preschoolers- but the kids did a great job! We ran out of time, so your child should have brought home arms and hands for the witch... I told them they could finish at home!

We had a great week! Can't wait for our field trip on Tuesday! Our t-shirts should be done today, so I will drop them off as soon as I can. If your child can wear their shirt on Tuesday it will help us keep track of everyone! Thanks!

Breakfast with a Book

Thank you so much for sending breakfast this week- we had so much fun reading our books while we ate our cereal! We'll have to do it again sometime soon!