Things That Go!

Well this has been a very short week! We haven’t had a whole lot of time to enjoy the changes in our classroom but we are fortunate that the new things will remain out for a few weeks. Things that Go and Community Helpers are fun units because we have lots of new play centers.  We especially enjoy our airport area! We take turns being check-in agents, flight attendants and pilots.

We also have lots of little people transportation sets out to fly, drive, ride a train, etc. to imaginary destinations.

We have emergency personnel gear in our block/building area to handle any “structural emergencies”. We also have a medical center in our housekeeping area to care for the newborn babies.

There is now pvc piping in our science area, which we use to build all sorts of sculptures. There is also a fun foam and golf tee building set!

Projects this week included water color painting a boat (speed boat, row boat, pirate ship, sailboat, cruise ship)  of our choice and coloring an “in the air vehicle” (airplane, jet, blimp, hot air balloon, helicopter) of  choice and a land vehicle (car, truck, bus, bike, van, motorcycle) We then had to match the vehicle to the poster with the correct location (sky, sea, road). These posters are on display in our hallway.

 

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Don't forget that the Bear Hunt Trip is 
Tomorrow (3/7) if you signed up.

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 Career Dress Up Day is on
Thursday, March 14th!

Down on the 4K Farm

This week we learned about farm animals. On Monday we made a barn and silo. We had to cut the barn and silo out and then we glued on rectangles and squares to make the door, windows and roof.

We practiced cutting on a curved line on Tuesday when we cut out three different sized circles to make pigs to decorate our hallway. We talked about how the circles are big, bigger, biggest, or small, smaller, smallest. 

Can you pick out which one knows he's going to be bacon? Haha!

Wednesday we had a snow day. We hope you enjoyed the day off! Remember to watch local news stations for any delay/closing information. Thursday we had another day off due to the district early release.

We made a page for our Person Book on Friday and we made the rooster project that we missed on Wednesday. 

We also went to different centers to demonstrate skills for our progress reports, which will be coming home in a couple weeks. It’s so amazing to see the increase in knowledge/skills! We are so very proud of all our friends!!!!

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Conferences have been scheduled for the people who returned their blue selection sheets. You received a neon orange note in your child's folder this week listing your date/time. Also, we have added a page to this blog listing all the conference times in case you forget. You can get there from the menu bar above by clicking on Spring Conference Schedule.

No School Today or Tomorrow-See You Friday!

Well, there has been some confusion about classes today. The is no 4K for either class due to the school delay. So no AM  AND no PM classes today (2/27). Also, don't forget that we do not have class tomorrow either (2/28). We will see your smiling faces on Friday (3/1)!

Friends are Fun!

We started our week with a special picture of our hand prints. Did you know that if you put your hands together just right, you can make a heart shape? And guess what? We got to decorate these pictures with the medium of our choice and any way we wanted! It was fun to get to be creative in our own ways!

Tuesday we made paper dolls that look like us for a poster in our hallway that says, “Mittens Warm Our Hands...Friends Warm Our Hearts!”

 
We visited with all the friends in our class on Wednesday when we went around getting signatures in our autograph books. These should be nice keepsakes for you.

Friday we made friendships bracelets using beads. We had to make a pattern and then we exchanged the bracelets with our classmates.

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SPRING CONFERENCE TIME!

It’s time to schedule spring conferences. Please return the enclosed blue sheet as soon as possible. Time slots will be filled on a first-come, first-served basis. Please note that you need to fill out the form, complete with three choices, before you will be added to the schedule.

We can’t wait to share information about your child’s progress with you!

We {Heart} 4K!

Monday we made a dragon for the  Chinese New Year. Did you know that this is the year of the snake? If your child was born in 2007 he/she was born in the year of the pig. 2008 was the year of the rat.

We made heart collages on Tuesday by gluing various hearts to our paper and then stamp-painted hearts on top using cookie cutters! It’s always fun to use objects in new ways. These are displayed in our classroom.

Wednesday we made a special valentine for you. Each one is completely unique and made with love. Be sure to look at the back side too :)

We had a great time on Thursday passing out our Valentine’s to each other.

 

 

Everyone’s mailboxes were decorated so wonderfully!


Thank you to everyone who brought in special treats/gifts!!!

Friday was a bonus day of school for us. We made another heart...no such thing as too many hearts or too much love, right? We used our fine motor skills to tear paper and glue it onto a heart shape because we “love you to pieces”.

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Don't Forget

 No School, Thursday, February 28th.

We HAVE school on Friday, March 1st!

We Had a Terrible Week!

Did that title get your attention? Our theme this week was "Opposites". So in reality, we had the opposite of a terrible week. It was another great week!

On Monday we added a page to our Person Book and the improvement in drawing details is A-MA-ZING!!

We made an edible porcupine after reading the book called, A Porcupine Named Fluffy on Tuesday.

In recognition of Groundhog Day this past weekend, we made groundhogs complete with shadow. Your child can decide if the groundhog sees his/her shadow or not to determine how much longer our winter will be.

Thursday we made a day/night project using our fine motor skills to cut out circles and glue on small pieces of paper. We also wore our PJs to school as part of our opposite week!

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Don't Forget to send in valentines with your child's name on them (not the names of classmates) and your child's mailbox by Wednesday, January 13th. Our party is on Thursday the 14th. 

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We HAVE school on FRIDAY, February 15th!   It's a 5-Day week.  So getting extra sleep for the long week would be helpful :)>

Busy Weeks!

So sorry we have not had a chance to update the blog in the last few weeks! 

Here's what has been going on: 

The week of January 21st our theme was Fun in Winter. We had an igloo in our dramatic play area and made a colorful ice sculpture inside our classroom since it was too cold for us to go outside and build the big one. 

Bundled Up In The Igloo

 

We also made to adorable snowmen decorations that we used for our winter sing. 

The Week of January 28th our theme was Polar Pals. We made some cute water bottle penguins, cardinals that are decorating our hallway, and the snow globe portraits that decorated the Winter Sing.

Notice the tree bark-it was fun to use texture plates!

We enjoyed our Winter Sing on January 31st as well! It was so much fun to be up on the stage and the center of attention :) We hope you enjoyed the show!!!!