Friday, February 24, 2017

Happy Friday from Preschool!

There was some serious concentration as these friends improved their writing/drawing skills this morning!

Brooke and Liam decided to build houses with magnatiles!  As they were building we talked about how each was different and each was the same!

 Laina and Claire continued our "3 day lego creation". Today it evolved to a zoo that people can live at too!

Emma and Reese decided to build a different zoo...this one ended up being for dinosaurs only!

"Mrs. Mudd, can you please take a picture of our creation?"  Wish granted!!!

We were excited to find ribbon wands and binoculars as the latest addition to our new playground!!!

We got mail!!!  

Mrs. Stanglein's class wrote us back!  They even gave us the directions for how they made the pretty paintings they have hanging in the hallway.  We are excited to try it out in our classroom sometime soon!

Our guest reader today was Aunt Sarah (Davis' aunt)!  We loved listening to her read a few of her favorite books!  We did a great job keeping our bubbles in and keeping our listening ears on!

As we continue to explore tornadoes, we watched a short video of storm chasers following some tornadoes in Kansas.  We discussed that to be able to do this "job" you have to have special training because it is very dangerous!  We remembered that if there is a tornado close to us, we should hear sirens and need to get to a safe place (like a basement, or any room with no windows).  We LOVED getting to see real tornadoes in action!

Next we looked at some pictures of different storm chaser vehicles.  We then decided what we would need to be storm chasers here in our classroom.  Next week we will begin "building" a storm chaser car for our dramatic play area...we are SO excited!

Time for small groups (centers)!

With me, we played Alphabet BINGO!  I would say the letter sound, then each child had to find that letter on his/her BINGO board.

Time for some work in the weather center. We loved getting to role play real life situations as we interacted with our friends in a comfortable setting!

With Mrs. Dose we improved fine motor skills as we placed beads in a pattern on toothpicks in playdoh.  Success for some was finishing a pattern that Mrs. Dose started.  Success for others was creating and continuing a pattern on his/her own.

We enjoyed outside time on the big playground...the building was blocking the wind out here!!!

During Jesus time today we discussed that sometimes we don't want to give Jesus our gifts or treasures.  It is hard to do. But, we need to remember that Jesus loves and forgives us.  He wants us to give our gifts with a happy heart!  We know that we can then trust Jesus to give us all we need!