Holiday Fun Day

On Friday we celebrated our "holiday fun day".  Thanks so much to the many parents and grandparents who came out and assisted.  The children were engaged in math activities, phonemic awareness, art and of course cookie decorating!

Decorating cookies! Yummy! 

Making patterns using Christmas ornaments!

Playing the "roll a gingerbread boy" dice game!

Using our knowledge of letters/sounds to sing "Jingle Bells" a silly way!

Welcome to the North Pole

We have been busy like little elves getting things ready here at school for our newest center - the North Pole, Santa's workshop holiday house!  The children got busy helping to create artwork and signs for this center.  With the grand opening of this center on Friday, we saw lots of children busy writing wish lists, stuffing stockings and working hard at the workbench to make toys!  Take a look at our friends busy at work and play!

Making Music!

This week's Super Science Wednesday combined science with music.  We explored the idea of making music without instruments.  We used water, glasses and spoons to experiment with sound.  Guess what we discovered?

1.  We can make music using water, glasses and a metal spoon.

2.  Using a plastic spoon and plastic cups made a different sound.  We liked the sound made by the glasses and metal spoon the best.  It sounded like bells!

3.  The sound made by the glass/spoon/water changed depending on the amount of water in the glass!

It was a great exploration with lots of eager and enthusiastic music makers and scientists!  Have some fun and try this at home!  It will be music to your ears!!

The Grocery Store is Open!

We have finally opened our class grocery store and it has been a busy new center.  The students worked hard at making price tags and signs for this center.  It is great to see them use their imagination as they role play buying items at the grocery store.  We loved seeing the students try to sound out words and copy print to make their very own grocery lists!  Take a look at who did some shopping this week….

Coming soon….we will be changing this dramatic play area into a "holiday house".