Winter Animals!

We had another fun week at preschool learning about winter animals, reviewing skills, and playing with our friends!

The class loved this fine motor activity!  

Look at that concentration. :)  

fun with play-dough mats!

...and always fun in Minds in Motion room!

Our sweet little class seriously amazes me at how well they listen in here!!  They all follow directions "like the big kids" when we switch stations.  We even had time this week to play a fun parachute game.  We worked on listening skills as we went "up, down, up down..." and as they listened for their name to be sung.  We all sang a song about the letter of each child's first name and the sound it makes as that child ran and danced under the tent. They are still getting the hang of this game, but they did awesome for their first time Thursday.  With more practice, they will be pros, and it will be a great way to get wiggles out and to review sounds of letters.

yummy winter animal snack! 

working on our names, shapes, and gluing skills!  

He was so proud of his "walrus". :)

With Mrs. Beth, the kiddos made adorable polar bear handprint pictures.  They used fine motor muscles to make snow from Q-tips all by themselves.  They always love painting!

Lunch Bunch fun!  Waddling like penguins:) 

Unique Me!

We had a GREAT week learning all about how God made us all special!

sweet little hands and fingerprints... each one unique :)

In circle time, we made an eye color chart together.  With a little help, the kids got to put eye stickers by the color of their eyes!  

Then we counted each group together.  

This little guy brought in such cute snacks!  The kids loved their people sandwiches. :)

All the kiddos traced their names like such big boys and girls.  We also reviewed our numbers and traced the number 2 for our two eyes.

Center time was a hit this week!  Here a few kiddos are having such a good time playing on the green carpet while others work hard at the craft and skills centers.

looking at books in the reading center :) 

so proud of his play-dough person ;) 

These guys are ready to put on a puppet show! 

The sensory table was full of colorful pasta this week.  In it were hidden different color bears they tried to find.  Most of them loved it!  A few were not so sure :)

They also loved cutting the noodles!  

Mrs. Tracy came in and read a book about fire drills and how to stay safe if there is ever a fire.  Our class then got to have a quick little drill to practice. 

Oh how fun snack time was this week!  (thanks to you creative mamas;)  

Each child got a placemat with four unique faces on it.  They then got to use their fruit to make eyes, noses, mouth, etc.  They loved it! 

The fruit was yummy too. :)  

reviewing the number 5 and tracing our names - so big!

"...I am special because I love Dadda."  

so many precious comments on this craft :)  

In lunch bunch, our little group had so much fun tearing paper (and working their fine motor muscles)  to make a name picture. 

so proud!