L is for Licking

This week in preschool we learned all about the letter "Ll," the color purple and the shape of a diamond!  We also discussed the math terms of more, less and equal to.

 

For Show-&-Tell Abby brought a picture of the her Family (the Lindell's), Charlotte showed us her "delicate" LaLa Loopsy Doll, Brennan brought a Light that he uses at night and Connor brought a LOVE sign since it is the month of Love!

 Our new theme this month is "It's a Small World."  For our first week we learned all about those who love us the most ... our families.  The preschoolers learned this song (sang to the tune of 'Mary had a Little Lamb'):

(Students Name) has a family, family, family

(Students Name) has a family

Who loves (him/her) very much!

 

We drew a picture of a family tree and then the preschoolers were able to put on their smocks and paint their own!

 

They all loved painting!

 

 

Here's one example of a finished paint project as well as one of the stories we read called, "Are You My Mother?"

 The preschoolers were also able to create their own families using play dough.  Here is Liam holding up his Mom and Dad ... and Abby with her Dad, Mom, Brother, Sister and herself.

To finish off the day, every student was able to show us a picture of their own family and tell us a little bit about them.  Here's Taylee pointing to all of her brothers while they were swimming and Anniston showing the preschoolers that she is going to be having a new baby brother in June!  

 

Next week we'll be celebrating Valentine's Day together ... preschoolers can bring 8 valentines to share with their friends in class!

K is for kicking

This week the preschoolers learned all about the letter K, the color black and the shape of a hexagon!

 

 Here are some of the kids making a Big K and a little k with their bodies!

For Show-&-Tell Taylee and Liam both brought Key's and Elle brought her Kitty Cat.

 Abby enjoyed corrisponding numbers with clothes pins!  She did an excellent job!

 

 The preschoolers are all improving their pencil grip and in writing their names!

 This was our last week learing about our amazing bodies.  Today we focused on the importance of exercise and eating healthy.  Here are some of the preschoolers stretching.  Liam's face is the perfect expression for what he was saying as he stretched, "it hurts, it hurts!"

 We did some jumping jacks, sit-ups and running around the yard!

 

 We also talked about how playing can be healthy for your body too.  Here are some pics of the preschoolers doing what they do best!

 

We also learned about the different food groups and how important it is to eat healthy meals and snacks.  Each preschooler received their own place mat with a plate as we ate our own snacks from each of the food groups.  We enjoyed apples, crackers, cheese, lunch meat, lettuce (or giraffe leaves as we called them) and some gummy worms (which was the favorite of most!).

 

After our snacks the preschoolers had a bunch of pictures of different foods and had to come up with a healthy meal for them to eat and put it on their plate.  It was quite funny what some came up with!

 

Here's Abby's plate she picked a pretty well balanced meal!

 It was a fun month of learning all about our Amazing Bodies!  I'm looking forward to our theme in February ... "It's a Small World." 

J is for Jumping

Our letter focus for today was "Jj."  The preschoolers had lots of fun j-j-jumping around!

 

For Show-&-Tell Connor brought a Jumping kangaroo with his Joey, Abby showed us a beautiful Jewelry box, Brennan brought a Jungle book, and Charlotte shared a Jam sandwich with all of us.

We had a special half-birthday celebration for Taylee today and learned more about her.  She is 3 yrs. old, her favorite animal is a "doggie," she likes granola bars (which she shared with us for a snack! thanks:)), pizza, noodles, nuts, and chocolate milk, and her favorite colors are pink and purple. 



We continued learning about our amazing bodies as we focused on our personal Hygiene today. Unfortunately, I had forgotten that my camera battery was low and it died shortly after we started class ... So, I don't have pictures of all the activities, but we did have fun!

 

We first started to talk about the importance of taking care of our teeth ... specifically brushing and flossing them.  All of the preschoolers got a mini oreo and we ate them up and then looked at each others teeth.  Of course there were a lot of chocolate cookies stuck in them!  

 

We learned about cavities and if we don't take care of our teeth they will get little holes in them.  Here is one picture of Elle cleaning all of the oreos out of the tooth on our white board.  She had to brush them really well with the toothbrush to get all of the black food (marker marks) off of them.

 

We also practiced flossing by putting playdough in lego blocks and pretending it was food stuck in our teeth!  The preschoolers had a lot of fun trying to get the sticky food out!

 

We also learned about germs and the importance of not spreading them!  To teach this concept I got a squirt bottle and pretended like I had a really big sneeze ... what would happen if I didn't cover it up ... water (or germs if from our mouth) would get all over everyone ... GROSS!  However, if I covered my sneeze with my elbow, shoulder or hand it would stop the germs from getting on everyone else!  Some of the preschoolers got a little wet from this activity, while others chose not to have the squirt bottle squirt germs on them:)!

 

We also talked about the importance of washing our hands, not only after we go to the bathroom, but whenever our hands touch our mouth or we sneeze into them.  When washing they should try to scrub while singing the whole ABC song.

 

To help them remember, the preschoolers drew a picture of their face with a hand covering their mouth that says:
"Cover your mouth, cover your sneeze .... and then you wont spread the disease!"

 

Sorry for the lack of pictures, I'll be sure to charge my battery for next week as we learn all about the importance of nutrition and exercise.

 

Also, thanks to our special guest, Abby's Dad, for his help today!

 

Have a great week!