A thankful bunch

Today we learned about the first Thanksgiving. We read Mousekin's Thanksgiving, by Edna Miller and sang "Thanks A Lot," by Raffi. After making a "Blessing Mix" (trail mix with thanksgiving symbols) we learned a Native American Thanksgiving Rhyme. Other favorite activities included Turkey Bingo and making tissue paper turkeys. The kids named several things they are thankful for - family, pets, each other, Lightening McQueen.... :) Thank you, Lord, for childern. What a joy!



Playing doctor during centers.

Making Thanksgiving dinner Playdough style!

The past two weeks

We've been busy. We have learned the letters T and O and read lots of great books. We have mastered our shapes and are all becoming computer savvy!

Little computer techies. Try Sesamestreet.com. This site features all your favorite new and old video clips from the show and even has "toddler" games. We all love it - young and old.



The good old fashioned Magnadoodle is still a great tool for teaching shapes, writing letters, numbers......

Using more "water" than "color" and having lots of fun.

Pretty painter.

Turning T's into fall tttttrees.



Precision gluing.

Little dare devil.

Taking orders at Restaurant de PreK.

Little turkeys (and a couple of big ones too.)

The letter L and geometric shapes

This week we learned the letter L. We did leaf rubbings and tore 'l' words out of magazines - mostly 'ladies' and 'laughing.' We read - Autumn's First Leaf, by Steve Metzger, The Shape of Things, by Dayle Ann Dodds and a Clifford book called The Silly Scarecrow. We are learning our geometric shapes and made some pretty "rectangular" city skylines after reading the tale of The County Mouse and the City Mouse. We had a great week with beautiful weather. The students are learning those ever important social skills and I'm enjoying watching them play and learn together.

Playdough balls and counting.

Using Playdough to make circles, squares, rectangles, and triangles.

A rectangle.

Cuties coloring.

Pretty babies.

Little Miss Muffet and more pumpkins

Eating cookies made from our very own pumpkin.




Using paint, glitter, fur, and eyes to make our pumpkins unique.




We read Go Away Big Green Monster, by Ed Emberly, a cute book with cut pages to create and then send away a silly monster.

Working on our - coloring, cutting, and gluing skills.


Acting out Little Miss Muffet and learning the letter M.