Week 21: Zoo/Circus/Valentine's Day

What a wonderful week!  We had a great Valentine's Day celebration, a fun time pretending to visit the circus, and an awesome time talking about the zoo!

Here are some pictures from the Valentine's Day celebration!

Ms. MaryBeth from the Grayslake library came to read us stories about friendship on Wednesday. She brought George the dog again too!

On Friday, we marble painted a Zebra, cut and sorted animals, played with geoboards, and had time for free play.

Here is our classroom newsletter for the week.  Looking forward to learning about our healthy bodies next week!

Week 20: Valentine's Day, Letter M

It was a week filled with love, hearts, and pink! Valentine's Day is such a fun time for little ones. They love making cards, singing songs about hearts, and using beautiful glitter glue!

Here are a few pictures from our week.

Mia creating her tissue paper heart.

Playing with floam and heart cookie cutters.

Our class on pink day.

Bowling fun in the gym!

And here is our class newsletter for the week. See you next week for zoo/circus week plus our Valentine's Day party!

Week 19: Transportation, Letter N, Number 7

Cars, trains, airplanes, boats, buses, helicopters, motorcycles.  Transportation!  We had a great transportation week!

Our star student this week was Bethany.  Bethany does a great job playing nicely with her friends.  Good work, Bethany!

Here are some fun pictures from our transportation week.

Playing at the train table 

Sponge painting our trains

Playing on the car rug

Counting red cars and blue cars

Ms. Donna kept track.  Blue cars won!

Playing with the boat track

Playing in the car wash

Here is another video of what we do in the gym!

And here is our newsletter for the week and our snack calendar for the month. Next week is all about Valentine's Day!

Week 18: Oceans, Beaches, Letter R

Beaches...Oceans...Fishies...Sand...Summer in January! We had an awesome beach week. I think I will let the pictures speak for themselves.

Looking at the bird feeder that we made last week hang on the tree outside.

Painting sea turtles that are hanging in our classroom

Playing with sand, seashells, and sifters

Stamping fish on our shark book

Water play with pretend ocean creatures

Sand and buckets on beach day

Graphing Finding Nemo fruit snacks...and then eating them!

Beach day!

Surfing to Beach Boys

Ever wonder what we do during gym time? Well, here is one thing that we do!

Here is our class newsletter for the week.  Looking forward to transportation week!

Week 17: Woodland Animals and Letter J

It was fun to learn all about woodland animals and hibernation!

Emily was the star student this week. Emily does a great job of helping her friends to clean up.  Good work, Emily!

We had a VERY busy Wednesday including story time with Ms. Marybeth, chapel with Pastor Brian, and playing outside in the snow!

Singing a song with Ms. Marybeth 

The cute puppy that Ms. Marybeth always brings in his winter gear.

Putting together tangram snakes.

Sledding fun!

A favorite activity of the year!

On Friday, we made a giant bird feeder to put on the evergreen tree outside our window by freezing water with bird seed, raisins, and cranberries. Hopefully the birds will love it!

Also, it was teddy bear picnic day! We sorted gummy bears, painted teddy bears, and ate a delicious snack on the parachute with our teddy bears.  Plus, we sang teddy bear songs and even went on a bear hunt.  Such a fun day!

Here is our classroom newsletter for the week.  See you all in the sunny pretend warmth of beach week!