WADDLE YOU THINK OF US?

Each of us was measured to see if we were as tall as an Emperor penguin. Our heights were then recorded on our chart for midyear. We will have one more measurement at the end of the year.

Stamping our sight words helps us to remember them more easily




A new item introduced this week into class was Bend-a-roos. These wax covered colored strings are pliable and perfect for designs, making shapes, letters, and just about anything. A much better way to learn the letter S than just seeing it on paper.

We didn't want to forget about our fine feathered friends so we made them a bird feeder of cereal.

WADDLE-WADDLE-WADDLE

The male penguin has nothing on us. Balancing the beanbags (our pretend eggs) took alot of patience.

Matching the upper and lower case letters on these mittens was challenging, but mastered.

We decorated and cut out our own mittens to retell the story"The Mitten."

Ringing in the New Year

Ringing in 2011 with our door handle bells, we are glad to be back at school Where the Love of Learning Begins!

Let it snow! Let it snow! Let it snow! And it really did!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Colored ice cubes- a different medium to paint with. The colors were so vibrant, they looked inviting enough to eat, but we refrained. We're waiting for our real slushies.

Our pajama day gave us individually the opportunity to show and share our favorite stuffed animals.

Shaving cream mixed with glue makes a wonderful fluffy substance.

Besides the fun aspect of shaving cream, it also provided another way for us to practice writing our names, letters, and numbers. The smell was terrific also.

This ice experimenting really made us come up with some very creative ways to get the objects out of the ice, but we love to "predict."

Each person got an ice cube. Oh my it was very very cold. Our mission was to see who could make it "evaporate" the fastest.

Mrs. Angela poured salt on our ice cubes.

After we poured warm salt water on our ice sculpture, we were able to easily dig out what we had buried earlier in the week.

TIS THE SEASON

The Christmas season brought many happy and serious moments to our classroom. Our group enjoyed decorating, cooking, eating, glittering, stringing, singing, and sharing during the last three weeks. Our friends also listened to Christmas stories some old and some new and we tried to focus on Baby Jesus. We hope you have a blessed Christmas and a Happy 2011.

Our stockings were hung so we could admire what a fantastic job we did on them.

Each candy cane needed a pattern. It could be a copy or an original. Then an inspection was to take place with the magnifying glass.

We're not sure what was the most fun-the stirring of the ingredients or the cutting of the dough for our gingerbread boys and girls.

The weather outside was frightful, but we still got in our gross motor skills.

We took an imaginary trip to the North Pole. Upon arriving each child found their name on Santa's good list and proceeded to tell Santa what they wanted for Christmas. How very interesting!!!!!!

Two activities that reminded us of the real meaning of Christmas were to make a manger scene with stickers and to make individual birthday cakes out of a marshmallow and a pretzel candle. Singing happy birthday reinforced the idea that Christmas is a celebration.

We got to make our own snack. Ice cream cones covered with green icing and decorated with chocolate chips and marshmallows. Yummy.

Thanks for giving

Thanksgiving has been our focus for the last two weeks. Counting, sorting, reading, graphing, tasting, and creating are only part of the fun we've been having. We have learned about the friendship of the Pilgrims and Native Americans, and that sharing helps everybody. We would like to share some of the highlights of the last two weeks.

Come Lord Jesus be our guest, let this food to us be blessed. This is our prayer before we have snack daily.

Our favorite Thanksgiving food was an interesting project.

We really tried to stress the importance of Thanksgiving. It really should be thanks for giving.

We made blessing trees with each leaf representing something we were thankful for. It was wonderful having such good help to sort the leaves.

The hot air popcorn maker intrigued us, however eating it was familiar to us.

With a gobble gobble here and a gobble gobble there, turkey week provided several opportunities to learn more about this bird.

The Hokey Pokey was a lot more fun with turkey actions- like put your tail feathers in.

We love our new long tables that Ms Jennifer got for us. We can stand on one side and draw with dry erase markers or work a puzzle on the other side. Thank-you Ms Jennifer.

A big part of preschool is creative play and that's exactly what the students get to do when they bring the puppets to life.

Many activities are much easier with a team effort.

Clipping clothes pins to the paper plate for tail feathers was a fine motor skill in this activity.

Hard at work with his tools.