Holiday Fun and Character & Manners month

We have had some fun with the holidays as of late. We are learning a few holiday songs to sing for our parents at our Christmas party and have worked on some fun and festive crafts.

We keep up on learning our letters, numbers, shapes, etc. Here we are working on our focus boards and names:

Sofie can write her name better those most kindergarteners! 

For the month of December our theme is "Character and Manners." I've had so much fun teaching these girls about manners and being polite. We have learned about proper table manners and place setting (we practice setting the table correctly every day for snack!), what respect means, and the golden rule. I made a fun board game for us to play that helps the girls determine what good manners and character are. If they land on a "good character" spot they move one space ahead and if they land on a poor choice they move back one space. It's a lot of fun to play. Plus we get to use the princesses for game pieces :) . 

Learning the Seasons

This month our theme has been "Seasons." I have a "season mystery" box. We take turns taking things out and guessing what season we would use that item for. 

For each season we have had a fun activity to do:

 For Winter we had a snowball fight (cotton balls!)

While learning about Spring we planted seeds outside (we'll see if they grow...)

For our summer activity we had a "campout" in our tent

Next week for fall we are going to collect leaves.

We've also been working on a "season book" that shows what trees might look like in the different seasons. 

(Notice who they are throwing all the "snowballs" at... everyone wanted to attack the teacher!!)

In addition to learning about seasons we continue to work on our Preschool routine each day. We focus on one letter, shape, and number each week. While "Gg" was on our focus board I brought out my guitar to play for the girls. We have worked on lots of cute art projects for our seasons theme as well!

Finishing our Shape Theme

We have finished our theme of Shapes for the month of October. 

These last two weeks our focus has been:

E, 6, and diamonds

F, 7, and pentagons

We learned additional shapes during our art projects and worksheet time. This month we've tried to stick to simple projects to help the girls practice their cutting skills. I've seen so much improvement with cutting these last couple of weeks. Hurray! 

We cut out trapezoids and painted them with our dots paints. We made xylophones with different sized rectangles (lots of cutting). We made pentagons with q-tips, and triangle trees. We learned about crescents and made a space scene with star stickers. 

We also had the best Halloween party! The girls got to wear their fun costumes. The first hour of preschool was class time. After we complete our preschool morning routine, we went downstairs for our party. 

First we frosted sugar cookies (and ate them of course!) 

We played a spider web game where the girls had to balance on the web and collect the spiders without stepping on the ghosts. They didn't understand how to "balance on the web" very well, but it was still fun. 

We had a pumpkin balancing race. The girls had a hard time keeping the pumpkins on their heads so they held them on. Cayleigh was the only one that could walk with a pumpkin balanced on her head, hands free. Very impressive Cayleigh. 

We played pin the tie on the skeleton. 

We went "pumpkin bowling."

We completed a fun skeleton art project. Each girl received a bag of skeleton parts. Each part was numbered 1-6. We took turns rolling a die. When we rolled a number you had to find that number on your skeleton part and glue it to your paper. We played until they had a full skeleton. 

We matched number candy corn pieces after that. 

To close the party we read a few Halloween stories I found at the library. 

I was so grateful that each student had a family member there to have fun with. It was a great party and we have such a great class of kids and parents. Thank you everyone for coming!