Valentine Brownies

We also had a mom and dad come in and make brownies with us!

Around the Room

We have graduated to mixing colors at the easel.  They are doing pretty well with pouring just enough paint..  I hope to soon have the paint out all the time!

 

The Legos have been a big hit...and great for fine motor skills and I just ordered new wheels!

We made Valentine bags this week!

We made animal tracks in clay...

We took "orders"

We used ABC stamps to stamp our name.

We explored shapes with geoboards.

 

More animal tracks...

A new magnet toy!

Valentine's Day

We started the morning with a snack of mini muffins, fruit snakcs, and juice boxes! Thanks for the donations!

Balloon fun in the gym!

A heart & dice math game...

We have a mom who is an art teacher! She helped us make folded heart art!

More hearts!

Small Groups

We've had small group time most days since the beginning of the year. Usually we (6 kids, 1 teacher) read a book together and some days we end the time with a short activity. I really think this time is important, and doing it early in the day at 9:30 has really been working out. This week, we split into groups, read a story together and then did one of 4 things...a Bingo game, journals focusing on our name, sorting by color, and an ice experment.  Every child got a chance to explore an ice cube tray. I froze toys in the trays and they had to figure out how to get them out, salt, water, and banging were just some of the methods!

The ice experiments...

other small groups...

Following a Recipe

Last week, we followed a picture recipe and sliced a banana and topped it with raisins. This week, we sliced cheese and put it on crackers. These do not sound like complicated recipes, but you are not three (or four)! It was a really challenge trying to figure out how to get one piece of cheese into just 6 slices. Then we counted 6 crackers out and practiced one to one correspondence, putting one slice on each cracker. (I guess we also learned about remainders, since some children really enjoyed slicing the cheese into smaller and smaller pieces yet only had 6 crackers on which to place the cheese!)
 

 

 

Day two, there were many more results like this!

Magnatiles

We are coming such a long way with our building with Magnatiles!

 

 

 

What problem solving...what math skills...what cooperation! It's gotten so they will not allow me to not put them out as a choice after lunch and I even had to add another set to our collection!