Archive for December 2015

As part of our weather theme, we learned about rain and other types of precipitation like snow and hail!  For one of our projects, we made an umbrella with raindrops falling on it.  The children loved being able to create their own unique umbrella!        We also learned “It’s Raining, It’s Pouring”.  They…

We just had one day of school to get ready for Thanksgiving so we enjoyed reading Thanksgiving stories and learning about the Pilgrims and Indians and the feast they had so long ago.  The kids also enjoyed preparing for their families’ Thanksgiving feast by making their own Thanksgiving place mats!  They loved making their mats…

Winter is our theme for December!  I love teaching the preschoolers about the seasons!  The kids enjoyed singing “Once There Was a Snowman” and melting to a puddle on the rug! The highlight of the week was acting out the story entitle “The Hat” by Jan Brett.  I love Jan Brett’s books the illustrations are…

Gingerbread is fun to learn about around the holidays!  We started the week off by reading the classic story of the Gingerbread Boy.  We learned a little rhyme that the kids LOVED saying as they ran around outside and pretended to be either the gingerbread boy or the fox! Run, run, as fast as you…

What a fun week we had getting ready for Christmas!  We read lots of wonderful Christmas stories and did some Christmas math!  Kids love when math is fun!  We used cut-out Christmas lights to work on counting as well as number recognition.     We also used our Christmas lights to work on patterns.  I…