It's the First Day of Spring!

Today was the first day of Spring.  It sure wasn't a spring-like day though.  It was so cold that we could not have our Easter Egg Hunt outside.  Oh well.  It will warm up soon now that Spring is here.

We had a great day today.  We played with the clothespins and Popsicle sticks and then we did puzzles, some coloring sheets with special crayons and one of our favorite games; Duck, Duck, Goose. 

We had a special story that was a book on a CD.  Mrs. Whiteman put it into our CD player and it read the story for us.  All Mrs. Whiteman had to do was turn the pages on the book.  That was kind of neat.  Our story was called, "Here Comes T. Rex Cottontail".  Poor Peter Cottontail (the Easter Bunny) had a cold, so T. Rex and his friends tried to help him out.  T. Rex is not very good at hopping and he breaks all of the Easter Bunny's eggs.  But, they find more and deliver them to the children.  What funny thing happens to the eggs at the very end?

After our story was over we went to the Play Room to play for a while.  Then we washed our hands and got ready for our Spring Party.  We had cute tablecloths and funny napkins with chicks on them.  At each place was a yummy cookie with frosting and sprinkles.  We really liked that.  Then it was time for our party games.

We had a Bunny Ring Toss game.  We had to try and toss the ring over the bunny on the floor.  It was hard, but we had fun trying to do it.  There was also a parachute and balloons.  We put the balloons on top of the parachute and then the adults helped us make the parachute go up and down.  The balloons bounced and bounced until they all bounced off and we had to start all over again.

We also had tattoos.  That was very cool.  We each got some put on our arms.  After all of our games were over we went back into the Play Room for our Easter Egg Hunt.  We each had our very own Easter Basket and we looked all over our room for the eggs.  There were purple, pink, green and blue ones.  We could find one of each color.  I wonder if there was anything inside those eggs?

Spinning

We couldn't believe what we saw outside.  It was snowing when we came to school.  It snowed the whole time we were there.  Even the grass started to get snow stuck to it.  When is Spring going to be here?

Besides the clothespins and fun Popsicle sticks, we had a few other things to play with today.  Mrs. Myers had a color game for us.  There were mats of different colors on the floor.  Mrs. Myers played some music and we all walked around the mats.  When the music stopped, we looked to see what color we were standing on and then we told Mrs. Myers. 

We also had the Tangrams at the tables.  Those are little wooden shapes like triangles, squares, and diamonds.  They are fun to use to make patterns or to make funny shaped things.

Mrs. Whiteman had a great big piece of cardboard for us.  We took some paintbrushes and water and we got to paint on the cardboard.  That was fun.

Our story today was called, "I Ain't Gonna Paint No More!"  Oh my goodness, it was hilarious.  A little boy makes a mess with his paints and his mom hollers at him and tells him, "You ain't gonna paint no more."  He finds his paints and sings a song while he paints all of the different parts of his body.  This was a very colorful story and it rhymed.  You should hear the ending. 

Our snack was skinny stick pretzels and granola bars.  Yum.  Thank you, Wyatt.  Our Tuesday snack was carrots.  We like carrots and they are good for us.  Thank you, Julian.  Right after that we got to play and do our art.  Oh my.  We had something very special at the Art Table.  Mrs. Myers had a special spinning machine.  She put a circle of white paper on its turntable  and when you turned it on, the paper went around and around.  While the paper was spinning, we got to dribble some paint onto it.  Whoa.  You should see how cool the paper looked when we stopped the machine.  There were mixed colors and fun lines.  We all had to watch it was so neat.

We want to thank Aidan's sister for coming to help with our class today.  Thank you!  Also, on Tuesday, Mrs. Myers daughter came and helped.  Thank you!

On to the Library

We had a field trip today! We went to the library. We met Miss Tami and she took us on a tour. She showed us the children's section and we even got to go to the back and watch the books come down something called a 'conveyor belt'. They divided up and went into separate places. Cool. We learned how to check out a book from the library. That means that you can borrow the book for a while. Then when you bring it back you 'check in' the book. We also got to listen to a story that Miss Tami read. When she was all finished, we had some time to read with our grown ups. We think that is neat.

Our snack today was Ritz Bitz Cheese Crackers from Aidan. Thank you. Our snack on Thursday was Rice Krispie Treats from Noah. Thank you.

We did not have an Art Project today because of the field trip, so we had a very long time to play. Some of our grown ups even stayed and played with us. We think field trip days are awesome!

Let's Go Fishing

We like coming back to school after the weekend.  It sure was rainy, wasn't it?  When we first came in we played with some toys including the clothespins and those special Popsicle sticks.  Then we got to do our table top easels and a couple of other things.  Mrs. Myers had a candle in a candlestick.  She put it on the floor and taught us the Nursery Rhyme, "Jack Be Nimble".  We got to jump over the candlestick just like Jack.  Then we did other things like run around the candlestick.  Mrs. Whiteman made some Homemade Silly Putty and we each got to play with that.  It was kind of goopy, but it was fun.

Our story was "Barney's Favorite Mother Goose Rhymes".  It was full of fun Nursery Rhymes to learn like:  Little Bo Peep, Pat-A-Cake, Little Boy Blue, Humpty Dumpty and lots of others.  We liked hearing them. 

Today was Birthday Day!  It's our favorite snack day because we get to make our own snack.  First we each got some little stick pretzels, some Goldfish and either some peanut butter or cheese spread.  Then we had to go fishing.  How do you do that?  Well, you stick one of your pretzels into the peanut butter or cheese and then you 'catch' a Goldfish.  Some of those fish were fast, but we caught and ate all of them.  We also sang "Happy Birthday" to our birthday friends for this month and then everyone got a brownie.  We love Birthday Day.

Art today was two things in one.  We took a piece of chalk and dipped it in silver paint.  Then we drew all over some very dark blue paper.  We couldn't bring it home since it was still wet.  We will bring it next time.

Snow Day!

We did not have school on Tuesday.  It was very snowy, so the T/Th kids didn't come to preschool.  We are sorry that they missed such a fun day.

We were able to go to school today, though!  We had a lot of fun when we were in the Circle Time Room.  Mrs. Myers had out the tumbling mat and we did all sorts of tricks.  Then there were some cute bunny pictures set out.  We could color them in with special crayons.  Mrs. Whiteman brought out the cloud dough again.  This time we had some in a bowl with spoons and an Easter egg.  What?  We tried to bury our eggs or fill them up.  Cloud dough is neat.

Instead of one story today we had 13 stories.  We didn't read them all.  That would take too long.  Today was Show and Share and each of us could bring our favorite book.  It took a while to finish looking at all of them.  There was a Max and Ruby one, a Barbie one, a John Deere tractor one, one about Ferdinand the bull; we can't even remember all of them there were so many.

For snack we had Go-Gurts and pretzels.  Yum.  Thank you, Payton.  On Thursday, we had two snack helpers and they both had the same name!  We had Go-Gurts from Addisyn and oranges with cheese sticks from Addison.  Thank you, girls.  Our Art was kind of funny.  Have you ever painted with balloons?  Well, we did today.  Mrs. Myers had balloons that were all blown up.  We dipped them into our paint and then made a picture on aluminium foil.  That was cool.

Clouds in the Classroom

 

Oh yes.  I sure was snowing when we first got here.  We will have to watch the weather in the morning because we are supposed to get even more snow tonight.  Yippy!

We had some different things to play with when we first got to school.  On the tables were funny looking popsicle sticks.  They had little notches in them.  We could try and build things with these special sticks.  We also had clothespins.  We learned how to open and close them and we practiced by putting the clothespins on pieces of cardboard.

During our group time we could play on the obstacle course or we could play with clouds.  Mrs. Whiteman made this very cool stuff called "cloud dough".  We mushed it together with our hands and made a big cloud.  Then we crumpled it up and started over again. 

Our story was called, "Where Is the Green Sheep?"  There were all sorts of sheep in this book, but where was the green sheep? 

Our snack today was Goldfish crackers and yummy grapes.  Thank you, Lucie.  After we were all finished eating, it was play time!  We got to make a necklace in Art.  Some of us wore them home.  We had new coloring pages and a new look in our Reading area.