Five Senses

      We had our Five Senses theme in February.  At the end of the theme, all of our four and five year classes celebrated by having a Five Senses Day.  They rotated classrooms for each one of the senses and had an activity in each class to go along with it.  It was a really fun day!

The Sound Room- They listened to different sounds and then held their paddle to  match the sound that they heard.  The paddles had pictures on them to match to the corresponding sound.

The Smell Room- They had covered containers filled with different smells (garlic, lemon, cinnamon, etc.) that they smelt, and then colored in the appropriate picture to match the smell.

Taste Room-  They had different items of food to taste (dark chocolate, pretzel, lemon, cookie, etc.) and then matched the picture on the tongue.

They also examined their tongues with mirrors.

Touch- They made Feely Caterpillars.  Each circle represented a different type of touch, smooth- aluminum foil, cotton-soft, sandpaper- rough, border- bumpy, and there was one other, but I can't remember! :)

I'm missing the pictures for the sight room!  They looked at objects through magnifying glasses and was able to look at slides under a microscope.  They also made small kaleidoscopes.  It was a lot of work, but it was a wonderful, learning experience!

I'm Back

     I am bad, so B-A-D!  My little blog has been neglected since the end of January!  I have a gazillion pictures and project to post, but just haven't had the time.  I've also had a lot of personal, family things going on that demanded my attention more.  I will try to do some things from this past year and will begin to blog this upcoming year starting today!  Here are a few shot from February.  I'm missing the Valentine's Day party, so maybe tomorrow.  I'm changing my theme this year and can't wait to show it off!  Thanks for bearing with me!

 I love reading Guess How Much I love You during the Valentine season.  We made these cards for our parents.  This was actually my sample.

 We had the Tooth Fairy visit to share with us about how to take care of our teeth during Dental Health month.

 She was fabulous!  She does magic tricks as she's sharing how to take care of our teeth.  The kids love it!

These turned out so cute!  We made our own Tooth Fairies!  They were all different, but they were all so cute!

                                                         Here is the girl's Valentine box.

Here is the boy's Valentine box.

That's all for tonight!  My goal is to have all the pictures up tomorrow of our Five Senses Party that was also in February!

Teddy Bear Day

     We had such a great time today with our Teddy Bears!  We had our annual Teddy Bear Parade.  Then we went back to the classroom and had Teddy Bear food: Goldfish (they love fish!), Honeycombs (they love honey), strawberries (they love fresh berries), and Teddy Grahams (that's what our Teddy Bears love to eat!).  After our special snack with our Teddy Bears, we measured them with blocks and then did some comparison activities with our bears.  We also wore our pajamas to school today!  It doesn't get much better than that!

     I did not realize that I took so many pictures with eyes closed! Things were a little crazy, but it was a lot of fun!

Winter

     I can't believe it is almost the end of January!  I'm sorry I haven't posted anything this month, but I have forgotten my camera almost every day since we've been back from the break!  I've also had a lot of family issues going on, so just not much time to blog!  I did not get pictures of a lot of our activities and hardly any action shots, but here is a little taste of what we did in January.  I also did not get pictures of any of our centers or the books that we read.  I'll try to take a few pictures of the books and get them up with the other things. I do have a few more things to upload, hopefully, I will get those up tomorrow.

Letter of the Week this week.

Letter of the week- First week of January.  I forgot to take a picture of the letter K.

We made a Snowman Tree Map.  I forgot to take pictures of the information that we put on the snowmen, but at least this gives you an idea of what it looked like.

This is a follow directions/sequencing activity.  I use to do a different one, but I found this one from Mrs. Jump's class that I liked a little better.  It was a bit challenging for my class.

One of the hardest things for them to do, was tear the paper!  We've been working on that all year, but I wanted them to do this with as little help as possible.  Overall, they did a great job!

They had to cut all the circles themselves.

We did this as a whole group first and then they had to do it on their own.  We did a page a day.

Whew! Last page!  The books turned out great!

Snowman Painting-  Mix glue and shaving cream together to make puffy paint.  They painted the snowman and then after it dried, they put the words in order to make a sentence.

To review left and right, we painted our hands put them in the appropriate mitten.

The Mitten-  I found this activity (that I modified) on Julie Lee's blog.  We read the story The Mitten several times.  We discussed what happened at the beginning (first), then what happened in the middle of the story (second), ad then what happened at the end (third).  They actually did really well with recalling the events of the story.

The writing was the hardest part, but overall they did great.  It'a a slow process, but they are coming along!

I realized as I was blogging there was so much that I did not put up!  I'm sorry about that!  There's always next year! :)