Letter Y and ABC review @ Julie's House

 Thursday we focused on the letter Y.  first everyone wanted to try uncles Yummy green smoothie. Kuulei really liked it and had the cutest green smoothie mustache.

We had a small group today only Kailia, Kuulei and Aisa.  We did our usual circle time then watched a couple of classic Sesame Street video clips on the letter Y and made the letter Y with our bodies when ever we saw a word that started with the letter Y. and danced around the Beatles song "Yellow Submarine" They LOVE to dance!!

We went over the color book Brown Bear, Brown Bear to practice for graduation 

then we identified several yellow items and glued them to our Y is for yellow pages.  

Some things were soft, some hard and some different shapes.

 For snack time we had Yellow Mac & Cheese, Yogurt and we cut open 

hard boiled eggs to see the Yellow Yolk inside. They liked the eggs the best!

              

 

 For a craft project we wrapped yarn around a jell-o box over and over again then tied 

them tight in the middle. They them cut the loops and glued eyes on to make our Yarn Pals.

 

 By then it was time to play in the Yard, they were dying to see the dogs and jump on the tramp.

       

The Next day we had Kailia, Kuulei and Alema.  They always have fun playing together.

We had a great circle time and practiced some things for graduation.  Then we read the book Chika Chika Boom Boom and used magnetic letter to put them up in our palm tree. They could hardly wait taking turns finding the next letter to put on the palm tree.

  

For snack time we had Alphabet soup and spent time identifying the different letters as they ate them.

              

We then played an Alphabet review game... we each took turns picking a clothes pin

 (marked with letters) out of the bag and then clipped it on the matching letter.

Then we watched a few sesame street video clips that reviewed the alphabet

Kailia and Kuulei thought the view was better upside down.

 

Alema and Kailia are making the letter H together.

Alema really liked the clothes pin game and did it again all by himself. 

 Thanks for such a great time at preschool this week both Kailia and I love it!  

Your kids are all soooo smart and we always have a blast!

Preschool this week May 2

School will be at the Galeais this week. Tues 5/3 & Wed 5/4. Tuesday we will be learning about the letter Z & on Wed. we will be learning about the color ORANGE (this is what the schedule had with the letter Z). On Wednesday can the children please bring something orange for show & tell and can they all wear orange to school. Thanks :) see you all tomorrow :)

Only 4 more weeks for school....

Wow can you believe we only have four more weeks of school!  my how time has flown by!

The last 4 teachers will be as follows:

April 25- Mili
May 2- Julie
May 9-Jeane
May 16- Jen
Week of May 23- Preschool Graduation

Please do not cancel school, if you cannot teach for any reason please try to switch with one of the teachers listed or let me know.

Thank you so much!

Reminder!

School will be Tuesday and Thursday at Mili's house this week!

Thanks

Easter Fun

Easter week just crept up on us! Circle time was fun!

We reviewed the letter X and color Yellow today. 

We made X's out of the blocks.

The kids loved how i made yellow magically appear in the water!

We reviewed our Bumble Bee song, make sure you have your kids sing to you and practice with them!

The kids were pretty excited to start our Easter Party so we got started:
- we had a bunny hop dance contest
- we decorated eggs with crayons and food coloring ( they loved this activity)
-we made bunny ears headbands
-we had yummy snacks including the cupcakes from Jason
- we had an Easter egg hunt
- we exchanged treats with one another
and finally we read a story about a little lost bunny!

We all had a great time, I think the kids were excited to go home and show you all their great treats!

I know XXXxxx

This week at Mrs Pam's house we were busy learning about the letter X.  The children did great with circle time, they really got our routine down great! I am so proud of them.  We sure missed Kaiona and Alema. 

We played follow the X on the floor (adapted from Milis week) They all walked in a line on the letter X with music on and whoever was off the letter X when the music stopped they were out! They had alot of fun with this game.  We made X's using our arms. 

During craft time, the kids made X's using different mediums, paper, popsicle sticks, and even wrote it out great!  an wa la the created their I know X books!

We made our very own Xylophone with empty jars filled with different levels of water, i added food coloring for an added effect!  The kids thought it was magic how i changed the water color.  they each had a turn to play my homemade xylophone.

We Yummy X snacks...cheestixs, slice carrots, X cookies and X Marshmallows...

We learned a new favorite song of the kids taken from our Funbox preschool songbook..Taking home a baby bumble bee.

Overall we had Xtraordinary Day!

School this week!

School will be at Mili's house Tuesday and Thursday!

Thanks

rectangles...

Circle time went well. Jason was our flag leader. Kuulei was our weather lady.  Malachi was our singing leader. Kailia helped with the shapes.  We read a few books about shapes.  The kids were so attentive as we read the book Shape by Shape.  They really enjoyed how all the different shapes created  a  large dinosaurs.  We made the letter W with our gummy worms.  

We learned about rectangles.  Everyone did a great job of stringing their rectangle.  Science time we had a science experiment with water, ice and salt.  We went ice fishing.  I explained that ice is frozen water and if we pour salt on the ice it will melt.  To demonstrate that we filled a bowl up with ice and water.  Each kid took turns with the fishing pole  and we melted the ice.  Alema was the snack helper and Kuulei was a great help with our rectangle pop tarts.    Aisa was our craft helper.   We practiced fitting different sized rectangles on our train.  After that we pretended to be toys in a rectangle toy box.  We ended our day with playing outside.  

Easter Party @ Mrs. Pam's House

We will have an Easter Party the last hour of school on Thursday.  Please send your child with 12 filled eggs for our easter egg hunt and a special Easter treat that they can give out to each of their classmates, and an Easter Basket.

Thank you and let me know if you have any questions.

Letter V, Color Red, #4

On April 7th we learned more about the Letter V, Color Red and #4!



We went outside to dig up some dirt to plant our RED tomato seeds, which is also a VEGETABLE for the letter V. Then we went inside to watch the video/story of The Little Red Hen and talked about helping out around the house.

Then we came in to color and practice drawing the number 4. They also glued 4 little objects to their paper; feather, stickers, pompoms.

 We then went fishing for 4 little fishies. Each time they would fish and pull out a number that was not 4, they had to continue fishing. When the found the number 4, they got a little treat.

This was their favorite part of the day. We made a VOLCANO using RED food color, baking soda and vinegar. Afterwards we talked a little about Volcanoes and where they were located.

The were so amazed!

 They had sooo much fun cheering!