Thursday, January 28, 2016

We had a great day in preschool!

As the temperature warms up outside a bit, we decided to play in the snow inside!  

How much do I have to "smoosh" the snow to get it to stick together?

How many scoops of snow does it take to fill the cup?

Strengthen those finger, wrist, and hand muscles making a snowball!

How does it feel?

Here we are improving spatial awareness as we build and create with magnatiles!

Keller constructed the world as he sees it...if dinosaurs were still around!

What a wonderful morning to play out on the "big kid" playground!

Time for a little science!  

We started with one empty can (from green beans). We crushed up some ice and put it in the can.  Then, we added a little bit of cold water to the can.  Then...prediction time...

I asked each friend (not here yesterday) what they thought would happen when I poured salt into the can too...

Voila!  We created frost! We learned that the air around us can hold a lot of water (water vapor).  You can't see it, but it's usually there.  We can often see it when it condenses on windows, cars, grass, and cobwebs.  We call this dew.  If the surface is very cold (below the freezing point of water) the condensed water vapor freezes, this is what we see as frost!

Time for small groups (centers)!

With Mrs. Mudd some friends worked on part 1 of a creation!  Today we used mirrors to draw our self portrait.  Each friend then finished the following 2 statements (some friends wrote on his/her own, others wrote hand over hand with Mrs. Mudd!)...

My eyes are ________

My hair is _________

This activity helped improve symbolic development, early writing/drawing, small motor control, and knowledge of self!

Others cut out snowflakes to add to his/her creation!  Improving early scissor skills.

We improved our early scissor skills cutting out paper hearts.  Each paper was folded in half.  Each friend had to cut on the line that Mrs. Mudd had previously drawn. Then...unfold the paper and just like that we made hearts!  After cutting out his/her heart, he/she could decorate with markers!

We improved our patterning skills placing conversation hearts in different patterns!

With Mrs. Dose we improved recognizing/identifying and forming letters.  She would hold up a lowercase letter.  Our friends would tell her the letter name, then make that same UPPERCASE letter with our wood pieces.

GO BOBCATS!

Check out all that bobcat spirit!

(Friday, 1/29 is color day...our class is wearing GREEN! Wear as much green as you can!)

We love to improve large motor control outside!!!

Aiden returned the favorite book bag today, bringing in "Franklin Goes to School"! Thank you for sharing this fun book with us Aiden!

During Jesus time today we read the BIG book, " Jesus Feeds 5,000 People"!  The book helped us to remember, "Our heavenly Father gives food every day and cares for us in a miraculous way.  He loves us, no matter how bad we have been; He sent His Son, Jesus, to die for our sin."