Seasons

This month we have been learning about the seasons. Fall colors, Winter activities, Spring flowers and Summer fun! From creating collages, playing marshmallow snowball fights, popcorn trees and ice cream making-- we enjoyed exploring the seasons and all that they provide! Here is one craft we made: yarn snowballs (closest we can get to a snowball here in AZ).

F f fish

F f fish-- craft to reinforce the sound of F.

Fairy Tale Fun

In September we really enjoyed our unit on Fairy Tales. Your child was able to retell and act out the various stories doing puppet shows, plays, crafts, etc... It was quickly apparent those who will be superstars in their future!

Here is a link to a youtube video of their production: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rCUaMimYn8g

Halloween Fun!

Thanks to all of you for helping make our Halloween Party a success! We loved everyone's costumes and had a great time with our parade and singing for you.

Making patterns

In August we worked on making patterns in preschool. In one activity, the students were given pattern blocks to create their own patterns on our magnetic wall. Look at these wonderful creations. Patterns ranges from abab patterns to abb and aabb patterns. Well done boys!

Polar Regions

We just started learning about the animals in the polar regions. The 3 year olds helped paint the background once again and then both classes started off by making penguins. This is just the beginning of our Polar Regions study, but the kids loved it so I just had to share!

Ocean Environment

We started our unit on Animals and environments last week with the Ocean. This was perfect because our 3 year old class was also focusing on the letter O-- so we painted the ocean and then made oysters and octopus to go with it. The 4 year old class made jellyfish. Both classes made personal aquariums with a variety of fish. They all turned out adorable. The kids loved painting, gluing, cutting and creating their environment. They were a little disappointed they couldn't take home their creations, but are now proud to have their work displayed for everyone to see. Check out our beautiful ocean scene!

Halloween

Here are the pictures from Halloween. It sure was fun to celebrate together and to share our Halloween songs with you. Thanks for all the treats!

Dressing up

One of the favorite things to do during playtime is dress up. Here is our 3 year old class all decked out. We are working on getting more masculine dress up supplies, but for now everyone seems content with getting all prettied up.

Christmas Program

I was so proud of your child for their excellent job in the Christmas program. They did such a great job remembering their lines, singing the songs and acting out the story of Jesus. I only took one picture of the students at the end. If anyone has more they would like to share, I would love to add them.

Dinosaur Dig

In November we studied about dinosaurs. One of our projects was letting every student be a paleontologist and dig for dinosaur bones. Here are some pictures of your scientist at work.


Here you can see our first bone that we discovered. If you click on the other pictures you will see more and more bones being discovered. The students were fascinating by all the fossils they found and were so careful to not damage the bones. They were fantastic paleontologists!

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