L Week Wrap Up

Today was our last day of L week.  We read 'We're going on a lion hunt' and danced to 'The Lion Sleeps Tonight.' We played with lizards in sand and made our Lion L's (more pictures to come)

Also this week we took turns pinning leaves on our tree and used Lasagna noodles to paint the letter L. 

 Books we read:

We're going on a leaf hunt

Leaf Man

The Autumn Leaf

Leaves

The Lorax

We're going on a lion hunt

Lunchroom Lizard

The Grouchy Ladybug

Songs:

Mrs. L

Leaves are falling...

Autumn Leaves are falling down

5 Little Leaves

Mary had a little lamb

Leaf Man

Today we read the book Leaf Man and made our own leaf people! The kids had a blast picking out and arranging their leaves, and I LOVE how they turned out! We have spent nearly the whole week learning about leaves. 

L Week

L Week has been a lot of fun. Monday we went on a leaf hunt and found leaves to use for our leaf people. We read books about leaves, met Mrs. L who has the longest laugh, and used paint and saran wrap to make some very colorful leaves. Here they are drying!

Close up of the finished products

Here they are on the tree we made. They are so colorful and even have 'veins' in them from the lines from the saran wrap. I couldn't love them more! They turned out great

 Today we used our leaves to do some leave tracing. These also turned out really well and were very colorful. We've been reading so many books about leaves and Autumn, I think the kids are really catching on. I caught them looking at the leaves in the trees and pointing out ones that were changing colors!

Families

The Second week of school our theme was Families. We talked about our individual differences, what makes us special, used a mirror to make faces, and we spent the week show and telling family pictures that the students brought in to class. We also washed dished in soapy water and dressed up as mommies and daddies

Art Projects:

Self Portraits

 We drew faces and glued tissue paper hair on them to match our skin, hair and eye colors

Drew pictures of our families

Paper bag Houses. We colored family members and put them inside the houses after we finished making them!

Songs:

Where is brother finger play

I am Special

We are a Happy Family

Puppy ABCs

Mat Man

Books:

Because your mommy/daddy loves you

What mommies do best

What daddies do best

My Dog is as smelly as dirty socks

Circle dogs

Babies

Back to School

The first week of school the theme was Back to school and Getting to know you. We learned songs about manners, drew pictures of ourselves, played who's knocking to learn names, and rolled the ball to each other
Art Projects:

We made owls with fabric, paper and glitter to hang outside our classroom

 Colored the clothespins that we use to check in each morning

Cut out pattern pieces and made paper sack back packs.  Here is the link for the patterns

Painted School busses

Songs:

I am Special

Will you Meet a Friend of Mine

The Wheels on the Bus

To Preschool we will go

The more we use our manners the nicer we'll be

Books:

Dinosaurs first day of school

Please say Please  Grumpy Bunny

Clifford's Manners

Busasaurus Bop

A Week

What better to start with than A? During A week we focused on Ants, Alligators, Airplanes, and Apples. We practiced being Artists in the morning by painting, coloring and drawing.
Each week I bring in a bag filled with items starting with our letter of the week. This weeks bag had antlers, aluminum, apron, ambulance, albums, alarm clock, alligator
Art Projects:

We made apple trees and dobbed them with red paint for apples

Folded paper airplanes and went outside to throw them

Cut apples in half and made apples stamps

Made our Alligator A's

Books: 

A is for Apple

Johnny Appleseed

Airplanes

A girl and her Gator

A Girl and her Gator

Airplanes go Vroom

Songs: 

Meet Mrs. A

Ants go Marching

10 apples in the tree

5 little monkeys

Apple sung to bingo

F Week

F Week sure was fun. We met Mrs. F and sang about her 'Funny Feet'. We played with frogs, rocks and flies in the water table. We took turns guessing what items would float, painting with forks, talking about our feelings, used baking soda and vinegar to make foam, and made funny faces
On Wednesday the students took turns pulling an item out of a bag that started with F. We had frames, flies, frog, fire engine, flip flops, fairies, fruit snacks, flannel, fleece, fabric and footballs
Art Activities for F Week:

Here are our F Frogs we made

I love how they turned out! So adorable

We also colored feeling faces, cut them out, and attached them to popsicle sticks.

We made 'Foam Frames' for our getting to
know our class book

We decorated footprints with feathers and used our fingerprint for toes

Songs: 

Old MacDonald had a farm

If you chance to meet a frown

Meet Mrs. F

5 Little speckled frogs

Friends Friends 123

Do as I'm doing, follow follow me

Head shoulders knees and toes

Books: 

Funny Feet

The Foot Book by Dr. Seuss

My Feet by Aliki

Fireman Small

Firefighter

The Feelings Book

Frogs

The Wide Mouth Frog

The Farm

Color Farm

Welcome to Teaching

I'm creating this blog as a way for me to document and remember what I do with my preschool classes each year. Right now I'm teaching 17 four year olds 5 days a week. Here are some of the things we did for the first few weeks of school.