Announcements:
- Conferences Friday March 9th, no school!
- Thanks for signing up to bring snacks!
Activities:
- Snack helpers: Emma and Lydia
- Art projects: we made a kite; and we worked on a story - "If I could drive a car....."
- We've got mail: We found an experiment - "salty water makes the egg float"! To do the experiment, fill a glass cup half full with water, carefully drop an egg in the water - it should sink! Slowly stir salt into the water - the egg should start to float. It is much easier for people to float in the salty water of the ocean too!!
- Mortimer the puppet introduced the letter "R" - he found a rainbow colored rabbit in the woods!
- Dismiss for snack activity: snowman number match, and position pictures!
- Dora's clues: small, medium, and large diamond - there was a diamond kite in the backpack for the children to color!
- Stories: Who Cares About the Weather; Bears Your Manners are Showing; Manners at School
- Song: "Teddy Bear Hokey-Pokey" song: You put your teddy bear in, you put your teddy bear out; You put your teddy bear in, and you shake it all about, You do the hokey pokey and you turn yourself around, That's what it's all about!
Announcements:
- Booklet of Experiences: Your child brought home their booklet on Thursday! Spring progress reports will also be in the booklet...... And, you have an assignment to do! Please write about your child's favorite place to go with your family. You may include pictures. Have fun writing and talking to your child about his/her special place. Please remember to return the booklet to school - you will get to keep the booklet in May!
Activities:
- Snack helpers: Laine and Andrew
- Theme: dinosaurs
- Dora's clues: star, star, star - we found a dot to dot paper exercise that makes a star!
- We've got mail: We found a rainbow volcano experiment! You need a small bowl of water. Squirt shaving cream into the center of the water, drip colors of water (use food coloring) on the top and watch the water run down the volcano - you will make a rainbow of colors in the water!
- We took a walk/fieldtrip to Dr. Dvorak's dental clinic - ask us what we learned about eating healthy foods and taking care of our teeth!
- Mortimer the puppet introduced the letter Q! Mortimer had a quilt - did it keep him warm??
- Dismiss for snack activity: dinosaur match exercise
- Books: Dinosaur book; Can I have a Stegosaurus Mom? Can I Please?
- Songs: Dino Play, sung to "row row row your boat": "Dino, Dino, dinosaurs; How are you today?; Dino, dino, dinosaurs; Would you like to play?"; and Stegosaurus: sung to "are you sleeping?": "Stegosaurus, Stegosaurus in the swamp, in the swamp. Plates upon your back, with your tail you whack - klomp, klomp, klomp!"
Activities:
- Helpers this week: Colten
- Theme this week: Here comes the circus!
- Art projects: clown, and we worked on a story for our booklet of experiences!
- Dora's clues this week were: a clown, a lion tamer, a unicycle rider and a juggler...... All the pictures work in the circus! There was a clown in the backpack for the children to color at home!
- Mortimer the puppet introduced the letter "P" - he found a Pink Pig friend in the woods!
- We've got mail: We found an activity that showed us how to make a bird feeder! We cut an orange in half, cut 3- 12 inch pieces of yarn and criss-cross them setting orange in the center where the strings meet - then tie all loose ends together and hang in a tree!
- Dismiss for snack activities were: mitten match and number match exercises
- Stories: The Loudest Roar, Clifford at the Circus, and Bozo the Clown
- We looked at pictures of how clowns put on their make-up. Clowns aren't so scary now that we know they are just regular people with lots of make-up on, and funny noses or maybe a wig!
- Songs: Circus Clown, and Pop! Goes the Clown!: " All around the circus tent, The clown was acting silly! The monkey thought 'twas all in fun, Pop! Goes the clown!"
Announcements:
- Thanks for making the carnival such a success! It was so much fun!
- *NEW* March 1st: Walk to Dr. Dvorak's dental clinic, 136 W. Main St. - this was not on the original schedule! Remember to have the kids dressed appropriately for this short walk just across the street!
Activities:
- Snack Helpers: Tyler
- Projects: We worked on our booklet of experiences, and we sewed around a Valentine heart for a special valentine!
- Stories (it's children's dental health month!): Tooth Trouble, My Dentist, and Brushing Well!
- We've got mail: We learned about healthy or unhealthy food! We sorted healthy and unhealthy foods onto a happy tooth and a sad tooth depending on the type of food!
- Dismiss for snack activity: Position teddy bears: under, over, behind, inside
- Dora's clues: toothbrush, dental floss, toothpaste - Dora wants to brush her teeth! We found a cute bear brushing his teeth to color and talked about taking care of our teeth.
- Mortimer the puppet: introduced the Letter O! He found an Orange in the woods and he had it in his mouth- he is so silly!
- A puppet, called Chef Combo, came to visit us! He talked to us about eating healthy food. You always need to have at least 2 bites when you try new food or food you think you don't like! (Thanks Chef Combo!!)
- Songs: Smile Song, sung to "skip to my lou", and Toothbrushing Song, sung to "peanut butter and jelly"
- Hope you enjoyed looking at all of the Valentines the kids brought home!
Activities:
- Healthy Kids Helpers this week: Cameron and Jazlyn!
- Projects: We dressed our "beary cold bears" and made a heart fish!
- Mortimer the puppet introduced the letter N! He was silly and kept saying "No my Nose isn't Noisy", no, no, no Mortimer was being Naughty but then he said he would be nice and not make his Nose so Noisy!
- We've got mail: We found an experiment called "magic water" - fill a small pop bottle with cooking oil, drop in drips of colored water, gently move the bottle to watch magic water float!
- Dora's clues: hearts of all sizes - we found a heart valentine box in the bag!
- Dismiss for snack activity: do the actions and patterning of bears and hearts!
- Bears: we listened to Jewel the bear and her baby cubs - www.bear.org
- We practiced our songs for the concert!!!
Announcements:
- Carnival on Friday! Remember to turn in your raffle tickets! If you haven't signed up for a volunteer spot/shift please let us know if you can help - the jobs are easy!
- Remember you can eat dinner at the carnival before the concert - we will have taco in a bag and hotdogs starting at 5:30; kids need to be there by 6:00 if not coming sooner, and the concert is at 6:15! You can also get food after the concert!
Activities:
- Healthy Kids Helpers: Ryder and Norah
- Projects: Story in book - My Sandwich and Fingerpaint!
- Books: Step Inside the Rain Forest, and The Rain
- Mortimer the puppet introduced the Letter M! He had a monkey playing with him!
- Dora's clues: pink marker, pink crayon, pink paper -- Dora had a fun song about pink!
- Mailbox - We found a rainstick inside the mailbox! A rain stick is so fun to listen to! We also found out how to make a rainstick: First, poke a bunch of toothpicks into an empty paper towel roll. Bend the end of the toothpicks and tape them down. Put masking tape all over on end and add 1/2 cup of rice. Tape the roll securely with masking tape and-- you have a rainstick!!
- Excuse for snack exercise: snowman match, and match pictures to cold weather or warm weather!
- We have been busy practicing all of our fun songs for the concert!! :)
Announcements:
- Carnival advanced sales tickets form was sent home - this is a convenient way to get a discount on the tickets, and also avoid having to wait in line when the kids are ready to eat and ready to go play games!
Activities:
- It was a short week this week!
- Projects: Gingerbread house! Ask your child how we made this house - they had so much fun!
- Dora's clues: shovel, pail, swimsuit..... Dora had fun at the beach!
- Excuse for snack activity: match the colored gingerbread man to their color of house!
- Story - Gingerbread Boy: In this story the gingerbread boy was on a boat and he is probably still running away!!
- We came to snack and our snack was missing!!!! The gingerbread men had run away! We had a gingerbread hunt --- run, run as fast as you can, you can't catch me I'm the gingerbread man! Where did we finally find the gingerbread men? Did we have to go all around the room to finally find them? We had a great time, and a fun adventure!!
