Our Five Senses

For the month of February we are learning about our bodies! This week, along with our regular alphabet, numbers, shapes, etc. curriculum we learned about our five senses. It was most probably the funnest week ever! 

We learned about our sense of sight, hearing, touch, smell, and taste. We read great library books throughout the week to teach us about these senses. We also played some fun games and completed a few art projects.

One day we focused on using our sense of smell. Each child was blindfolded and I held out different things for them to smell. After each student got a chance to smell, they got to shout out what they thought it was. They did awesome! It wasn't hard for them at all! 

Here they are smelling a few of them: peanut butter, gold fish, and bananas. We also made flower necklaces for art because flowers smell so good! 

Another day we singled out our sense of hearing. They were each blindfolded again and I made a little noise with lots of different objects. This game was a little harder for them! I shook a bottle of vitamins, crinkled foil, shook a water bottle, banged pots and pans, and a few more. They were stuck on the vitamins for awhile! For art we made maracas to make music for our ears! 

We also spent a day on our sense of touch. For this game they were blindfolded and had to guess what each object was by just feeling it. They felt a diaper, a bottle, a cell phone, a fork, a stapler, and a few more. They thought this was a breeze! We made these cute "feel hands" to describe how different things might feel.

This week Q was the spotlight letter. We practiced the q sound and words that start with q all week. Emma brought an outstanding q collage to share with the class. Here are a few of the worksheets we did:

We also have a new student! Elly had to leave our preschool class and we were so sad to say goodbye. With Elly gone we had an open spot. Our new student's name is Mason and we are so excited to have him!

 

Amphibian and Insect Weeks

We have finished our January theme of Animals. Tomorrow is our first day in class for the month of February and our new theme for the month is "The Body". We are going to have a lot of fun with that! First, take a look at our Amphibian and Insect weeks:

Amphibian Week

Insect Week

This month's theme song was the hardest one on the year. It is called the "Animal Song." It has a verse for each kind of animal we have learned about: mammals, birds, fish, reptiles, amphibians, and insects. I  didn't expect students to be able to learn the whole thing but they did great! I recorded them singing it and it took 5 and a half minutes. Unfortunately it was too large to load up! 

Reptile Week

Here is a look at our reptile week! After playtime and our morning routine review we learned all about reptiles! We learned that reptiles are cold blooded animals. They have scales and lay eggs. They have lungs to breathe and use the sun for heat. 

Our animal song is coming along great. This week we learned the reptile verse of course. They sound so cute singing it. Now they can sing 5 of the 7 verses of our longest preschool song of the year! (we have amphibian and insect week still to come). 

Take a look at our reptile art:

Table time! We have snack following lesson time and then we work on worksheets. We focused on the letter N this week. They also have worksheets about beginning sounds and finding reptiles. 

This week we are learning about amphibians! Stay tuned! 

Fish Week

We are continuing our animal theme for the month of January. It is great to be back in school. We learned all about fish this week during our lesson time. 

We are continuing to work on the alphabet with our letter of the week. We learn shapes, calendar, weather, colors, numbers, and more during our morning circle time. 

Elly is working on the letter of the week worksheet, letter M.

What is a Fish worksheet!

We also work a lot on beginning sounds

Here are our art projects for fish week. They were really fun! 

 Fish bowls:

Shark hats:

Shark infested waters!

 Sea horses in the reeds:

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.