A Pre-Kindergarten Academic and Activity Rich Preschool Program

Tuesday, January 1, 2013

Birds and Our Christmas Party!


We only had two weeks of school in December before our Christmas break. We started our animal theme which we will be working on during January, too. In December we learned about mammals and birds. School starts again tomorrow, January 2nd, but take a look at our last week of December! 




We had a fun Christmas party our last day before the break. We ate cookies under the Christmas tree, went fishing for letters, played pin the star on the Christmas tree (hilarious), and wrapped the presents we had made for our parents. 










Monday, December 3, 2012

We Know the Seasons!


The end of November means finishing up another great theme. We learned all about shapes, and it was in fact, one of my favorite preschool months ever! We spent two days on each season. After our morning routine of calendar, weather, alphabet, numbers, and shapes we would learn about that season and have a fun "seasonal activity." We also learned a song about the seasons, which I recorded the kids singing and posted below. After the lesson it is snack time at the table. Next we worked on season worksheets and then art projects. We finish preschool with story time. It was a great month! Take a look below at some our fun! 


 Fall addition worksheets 

 Here are our growing seeds that we planted when we learned about spring! 

 We went on a fall scavenger hunt outside one day to look for leaves. We learned how leaves in Arizona don't always change colors. (I bought a fall garland at the dollar store and cut leaves off of them and spread them in the front lawn so they could find some fun red and orange leaves). 

 We made turkeys for Thanksgiving! 

 What would you see on a snowy day?

Elly practicing her name! 

Braxton and Sam working on puzzles during playtime!

We had a snowball fight when we learned about winter. This was definitely their favorite! 

They brought winter clothes to wear for the cottonball-- I mean snowball fight. :)

Snow angels

Playing outside, Elly and I.






Thursday, November 8, 2012

Preschool Update

Finishing up our October theme "shapes"


 Oval mice



 Shape Bingo



 Diamond Kite

The kids dressed up at preschool for Halloween. Sam was Robin Hood, Braxton was Spiderman, and Emma was a princess. Elly came later as a mermaid and Jenna was sick that day. 


Happy Halloween! 

Our Shape Song!! 

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Our new November theme is "seasons!" We are having a lot of fun so far. After play time and our morning routine (calendar, weather, number review, shapes, abc's, and letter of the week) we have a lesson on a season. After our lessons this month we have seasonal activities, picnics, snowball fights, collecting leaves, etc. We have learned about spring and started learning about summer so far. We have a new song for this month to help us learn about seasons and it's a cute one. 


Spring picnic  


 

Sam brought his hermit crabs to share in the picnic fun. The kids loved them!  


 Planting flower seeds 



 Spring rainbows

 Summer camp out in our preschool tent! 

 Summer suns