We had a short week! Wendesday was an HISD 1/2 day, which means we didn't have school at all. We completed our transition from dinosaurs. We played lots of games and had lots of fun, despite not having nearly enough time for anything. 2 days isn't enough preschool for anyone. Fine motor skills, turn-taking, PATIENCE. This fishing game is lovely.
Lucky Ducks is another game we tried out. The concept is simple enough that they are able to play this without an adult, and naturally with 4 preschoolers playing, problems arose, and they were able to reason it out. Very nice team building activity.
Some of our academic work was turned into games as well. First, cutting, then finding the right sticker, then writing their names. Academic work doesn't have to LOOK like work. It can be fun! :)
We have measured our growing dinosaurs several days/weeks, and it looks like they are as big as they are going to get. Good bye dinosaurs, we had fun measuring, counting, and predicting with you!
We made noise makers a week ago, after we read about different dinosaurs and their noise making abilities. It was fun pretending to be dinosaurs, and talking about what those dinos might have been saying to each other. The noise makers went home in Friday's backpacks.
It was this dinosaur's birthday, and the kids picked how many presents to give to it, glued them on, counted them up, and wrote the number on the tummy.
Jeff took building with Color Clix to a whole new level during free choice. Wow! The first picture was a bird (which later changed to other things), and the second picture was an airplane. The kids LOVE taking pictures to send to their family.
More building, this time with blocks. Ryan built a dog (and he's panting while I snapped the photo), Hawken built a bat, and Jeff built a rhino (who was later a dog too).
More and more and more blocks, and block creations. They took over the room! I know each of these pictures looks similar, but they worked hard on every creation and wanted to show you! So take a look, and tell them how amazing their building skills and imaginations are!
After reading a few versions of the 3 Billy Goats Gruff, we ate like goats and tried out lots of different fruits at snack time. The kids then tried to eat without their hands (you know billy goats only use their mouths!).
Quiet self-reading, using a Tag pen.
During table time, the kids tried out the stamps pads and dot to dot number stamps. Each stamp has a number on it and a corresponding amount of objects. After they stamp it on their paper, they say the number, or count the objects if they are unsure, and then trace over the dot to dot number.
The lowercase abc maze was fun for the kids to try out, and pretty tricky. Ryan sure is persistent though. He stuck with this activity until he figured it out, even when it got frustrating.
Matching rhyming words, another fun activity. Hawken tries to find a rhyme for nearly ever word that's ever said, so this activity was right up his alley.
Team build activities, like this puzzle, are a favorite for this group of kids. They work so nicely together!
Also, we made our first MOVIE! Acting out the stories we read is a favorite activity, so this time, I prepped them and told them I would film it! They were SO excited. Here is the masterpiece! This video is on Youtube, and is public, but not able to be saved. I will make copies for the parents of all our videos at the end of the year in DVD format. Enjoy!
