A Furry Fun 4K Week

Monday we drew our self portraits for our Person Books. The kids have been including much more detail in their pictures.

Tuesday we worked on cutting and sorting. We made our projects on the floor to work our tummy muscles. This is hard work!

We brought the paint out on Wednesday and used Q-tips to create an iguana. The Q-tips we used had to be opened like a band-aid. This was great fine-motor work.

Thursday we made adorable hamsters in a ball. Did you just love them?!?!

REMINDER: Our Valentine Party is on Tuesday Feb. 14th. If you haven't sent in your Valentine mailbox or valentines, please do so ASAP.

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There are so many opposites that we've talked about this week. It made for a week full of learning! We made a porcupine after reading the book called, A Porcupine Named Fluffy on Monday. This required strong fingers to hold our paper plates closed and cut small snips.  

On Tuesday we brought out the paint to make opposite masterpieces. We painted with white paint on black paper and black paint on white paper. There were many creative opposites painted, these are hanging up around our classroom.

Wednesday’s project was an opposite memory game. We worked hard to color our pictures and we enjoy playing this game time and time again! 

Thursday we used stickers to show a jar that is empty and a jar that is full. This required a lot of fine motor skill, peeling stickers can be hard!

Please remember that Valentine boxes and Valentines are due next Thursday. We've enjoyed the creative boxes that have been brought in so far!

STEM Family Outreach Activity

What a fun time!  We really enjoyed our time in the STEM lab.  There was so many different things to do.  Look at some of the fun we had!

Once Upon a Time...

We enjoyed being royal this week. Monday we read about The Knight and the Dragon and created a dragon of our own. 

We worked hard on our fine-motor skills when we had to color in the lines with colored pencils to decorate a knight’s shield.

On Wednesday we made fancy crowns featuring a three-part pattern.

We wrapped up the week on Thursday with our Royal Tea Party that we dressed up in royal attire. We created a castle picture frame and put in a photo of our class in royal clothing.

Little Foodies

food·ie  /ˈfo͞odē/ n.   a person with a particular interest in food; a gourmet.

We enjoyed our short week after our extended weekend. This week we talked about foods around the world. We have three restaurant play areas in our classroom: Mexican, Italian & Chinese.

On Wednesday we made a place setting to kick off our week of food.
Thursday we made a shape taco. We like using fun ways to reinforce colors, shapes and numbers!!

Next week we hope to be back to our regularly-scheduled 4 day, Monday-Thursday week. We are looking forward to our Royal Dress Up day next Thursday

Arctic Animals Week

The weather this week certainly reflected our theme of Arctic Animals! We hope you enjoyed the five “stay home” days we had. 

Wednesday we learned about husky sled dogs and made a husky puppet. It required lots of parts and direction following. 

Thursday we made an eskimo, this also required lots of parts and direction following. We wrapped up the week on Friday with a penguin project using our fine-motor skills to tear paper. 

 Our dramatic play area was transformed into an arctic area. We had an "igloo" that the kids could read in and a fishing hole as well. The kids seem to really enjoy using their imaginations in this area.

Some of our favorite books this week were: 

Count Alaska's Colors by Shelley Gill
Tacky and the Winter Games by Helen Lester

Tacky the Penguin by Helen Lester
Alaska ABC Book by Charlene Kreeger
Three Cheers for Tacky by Helen Lester

The Three Snow Bears by Jan Brett

Please continue to send all winter gear because we will go out whenever it’s above zero degrees.

Tree Farm Trip

We had a great time at Hann’s Christmas Tree Farm today!  We got to see trees of all different sizes. Some were cut down already, and many were waiting for families to come choose them and cut them down. We took a wagon ride out into the fields to see the trees. We also saw stumps from evergreen trees that were previously cut down. We learned that trees that our about our height are also about the same age as us. The trees that are ready to be cut down to be used as Christmas trees are 8-10 years old. We saw how they make wreaths from evergreen boughs too.  Thank you to the chaperons who joined us and to those who generously volunteered but were not selected to come. You can see more photos on the the photo gallery page.

AM Class

PM Class