We collaged our letter with "F"eathers.
We Painted using a "F"ork which made an interesting print with the "F"our prongs.
We also explored painting with a "F"eather.
Journal time is such a neat time to see where the children's creativity goes. I gave them a sticker that either was the number "F"our or "F"ive and they had to draw something that had one of those numbers. K drew "F"ive Draculauras (Dracula's daughter).
And E drew a picture of a guy with "F"our arms.
Sharing was "F"un this week. I always love to see what the children come up with. P brought his "F"oam "F"inger which was a double "F" word! The children get so stoked about these. He talked about going to the basketball game and what the "F"oam "F"inger meant and why people used it. When P called on his friends for questions or comments he pointed to them with his "F"oam "F"inger. It was "F"unny.
I was very excited to share his "F"risbee. He told his friends about its color, shape, and what it does. He also explained how it was shiny and that it was his "F"avorite "F"risbee. The comments were, "I like the color" and "can we play with it?"
What better to do on letter "F" week than to paint "F"eet and walk on the "F"loor where we made a paper in the shape of a "F". We found that most of our children have ticklish "F"eet and thought it was soo hilarious when Teacher Romina painted their "F"eet.
S going on a walk all over the letter "F".
I traced the children's "F"oot this week and we did a measuring my "F"oot activity. K measured using blocks from toe to heel.
S used pennies to measure his "F"oot. We noticed that our "F"oot was the same size in blocks and in pennies.
N and P measured in inches using a ruler. It was interesting to teach them to line up the ruler in the right spot and what numbers used to count.
Decorating our pumpkins. We used paint, feathers,
Eyes, jewels,
Glitter... Lots of glitter
And string! It was so awesome to see the children's wonderful masterpieces. You can definitely tell whose pumpkin is whose. :)
We had a very special guest in our class this week, K's Dad! The children were soo excited and very attentive.
He read the book, "Nobody's Nosier than a Cat." The children asked what all the different words meant and he had everyone up striking their very own pose like the cat does in the story. The children loved it! Thank you soo much for taking time out of your day to spend time in our class! K was talking about it for the rest of the dad. Soo proud to have her dad hanging out with her "F"riends.
In PreK with Teacher Karen we started working on numbers: number recognition, writing numbers, and one to one correspondence. We have also been working on writing our names and working across our paper from left to right and top to bottom. PreK is now Mondays, Tuesdays and Wednesdays.
This past week we made our "F"riendship Soup and we read the book, "Stone Soup." While the children were taking turns cutting our vegetables, most of the children were playing in our kitchen area making their own "F"riendship Soup. I thought it was so awesome to see them taking the play kitchen basket and bringing all the ingredients to share in the "soup."
J peeling our potatoes with our monkey peeler.
P is peeling another potato.
S using a knife to cut carrots
Thank you parents for bringing in all of the ingredients! The children were so proud to share with their friends and contribute to our soup. The conversation during lunch was priceless. They were so excited to find the potatoes they peeled and the carrots and celery they cut. Everyone did try the soup but I cannot say that they all loved it. It was a really awesome cooking project and it was so neat to sit down family-style to eat it together. Thanks again parents for your contribution.
Playing our musical instruments while singing, "Make New Friends but Keep the Old: One is Silver and the Other Gold." The children also requested songs to sing which included, "Jingle Bells," "The Wheels on the Bus," and "Twinkle Twinkle."
"F"ace painting "F"un! Thursday afternoon we decided it would be "F"un to paint "F"aces. From left to right (picture above) we have Hello Kitty, "F"rankenstein, sun and a butterfly and Draculaura.
Our "F"unny "F"aces!!
Information about this week for the Harvest Festival and Halloween:
- Wednesday October 30th, we will be celebrating our Blue Room Harvest Festival. We will be playing games that the children and I brainstormed together and this will probably start around 9:30. Please dress your child in fall festive colors, or orange and black. Save costumes for Thursday. I'd love to take a class picture. :)
For Halloween (Thursday), we will be dressing up in costumes and trick or treating and have a little parade throughout the school. This will probably be around 10-10:30 and then we will play outside and then have a pizza party for lunch!
Parents, if you have the morning free and would like to come help either day, please feel free. Also at anytime throughout the month if your like to come in and read a book to our class please feel free. The children love it!
Thank you for all your support!
Teacher Kristina
