Letter O Week

Letter O Week is OVER!

It was not an ORDINARY week.

It was an EXTRAORDINARY week!

Our week was filled with OWLS.

Our literacy center featured owl puppets, flannel boards 

and the books, Owly, Owl Babies and The Littlest Owl.

We answered questions about the stories we read and

we also wrote non fiction facts about owls.

Our math centered also featured owls.  We used pattern blocks to construct owls.

We ate owls for snack!

Our art center was filled with feathers, beaks and eyeballs.

Whoo!  Whoo!

We discussed the differences and similarities between

owls and ostriches.  We graphed our favorite!

Then we made ostriches!  

We estimated orange objects.  We predicted and then counted.

We also took class pictures and celebrated Big Kid Day!

I guess I just have to say what I always say...

It was another great week in the Kindie House!

Next week we will talk about letter S!

Letter C Week

Letter C Week!

Our main themes this week were carrots and corn!

Our literacy center featured the book, The Enormous Carrot.

The children compared real carrots and corn.

They illustrated what they observed and wrote words about their observations.

We explored dried corn and worked with standard units of measure.

(measuring cups)

We counted how many 1/4 cups fit in 1 cup.

We counted how many 1/2 cups fit in 1 cup.

We counted how many 1/4 cups fit in a 1/2 cup.

 We used our fingerprints to make ornamental corn.

We made carrot collages.

We read the book, Corduroy.

We discussed parts of the story.

Here are the Corduroy's we created in art!

  We graphed Corduroy (bears) in the math center.

We talked about cats and chimpanzees too.

Parker and his mom made this cool caterpillar for our snack.

It was a CRAZY week.

Next week Letter O!

Happy Halloween

Happy Halloween!

Party Day is always a lot of fun and very chaotic.

Our literacy center featured the book, Boo To You.

We acted out silly songs and finger plays using these props.

In the art center we made Jack-O-Lanterns.  

(I saw an idea similar to this on Pinterest!)

 Boo to you!

We read the book, Which Witch is Which.

We discussed parts of the story and made these

adorable witches.

WHICH WITCH IS WHICH?  Can you tell?

Emma and her mom made these witch fingers for us to eat for snack!

Then it was party time.  Yippee.

 Happy Halloween Everyone!

This is our delicious snack!  

Thank you mommies and daddies for such a great party!

Letter P Week

Letter P Week was PERFECT!

Our PRIMARY theme was pumpkins.

We studied pumpkins inside and out.

Our literacy center featured the book, Pumpkin Pumpkin.

We compared Pumpkins and Gourds.

We sorted and graphed our pumpkin patch.

(Thank you for sending in pumpkins and gourds!)

We measured pumpkins using non standard units of measure.

 

We described how pumpkins look, feel, and smell 

on the outside and the inside.

We created pumpkins in the art area!

We also discussed Pizza!

We made pizzas for snack.  Yummy!

We managed to find time to explore pigs.

We created pigs in the art center.

We wrote about pigs.

We read and discussed the book, Pig, Pigger, Piggest.

The children loved this book and laughed at the end when the pigs

married the witches and played in a huge mud puddle.

We went to Full Circle this week and also had our Halloween Party.

(I will add a post about our Halloween Party.)

Whew!  It was busy!

Next week we will explore Letter C.