Today we read Dream Snow by Eric Carle again. The children were very excited that they remembered the name of the Author.
We discussed The Dream Snow Christmas Tree.
And then we made our own Christmas Tree.
The Farmers animals are named one, two, three, four, and five. We found our own animals and named them!
During the holidays, there is a big need for scissors….mostly wrapping all those presents! Today the children practiced their scissor skills by cutting fringe for their place mats. Starting with scissor safety, the boys and girls used their fine motor skills to make one cut snips create fringe to glue to the end of the place mat. The children were so proud of how successful they were with all of their snips!
We used the environmental print around our classroom on Friday for writing practice.
We played a building game on Thursday to continue our math unit in comparing sets. We rolled the dice, built our towers then compared our tower with our friends’ towers. Who had more blocks in their tower? Who had fewer? Who had an equal amount of blocks in their towers? Super easy game to do at home on a snowy day…all you need are some blocks and one die!
Our preschoolers turned our classroom into Santa’s Workshop today as we turned red licorice and white yarn into a candy cane! This is no ordinary candy cane….it’s a number nine candy cane! In order to make this yummy creation, the children had to follow step-by-step directions, use their fine motor skills to twist, and use number recognition to create the number nine. It was a quite a treat to work on so many skills in one fun activity!
We created our own individual M&M graphs today to compare the quantities of different groups of colors in a bag of M&M’s. They REALLY enjoyed this activity and I was VERY surprised at how many kids did NOT want to eat them at the end of, but rather take them home to repeat the activity at home. TOO CUTE
We wrote our friends’ names on mirrors today to continue our writing conventions unit of study. We focused on formation and orientation. They really enjoyed showing off their accomplishments to their friends…
We explored the concept of sinking and floating today in preschool. We made our predictions and recorded them on a chart, then, tested our predictions first hand. We then recorded our findings on a new graph to compare what we predicted against our findings.
Our second focus this month is on writing conventions including formation and orientation. We began, of course, with the letter Gg!
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