Polar Express Week

I lOVE Polar Express week!  It just gets you in the Christmas spirit!  The Polar Express is such a good story reminding us to believe in Christmas no matter how old we are! :)  Here are some pictures of our week in reverse order. The first several are from today where we "rode" on the Polar Express and wore our PJ's just like the kids in the story. Enjoy!

Our silly faces 

Our big cheeses :) 

Hot cocoa, marshmallows and a candy cane. Yummy! 

 

"The first gift of Christmas!" (from the story...we all got bells). 

Our tickets

We are artists! Check out these fabulous drawings.

 

 

Using the hole punchers on the golden tickets that said "Believe" like the movie. This gives us good fine motor practice and is fun! 

Different thread spools make great tire tracks and snowflakes!  We added a sentence that said, "I can see a ____" to describe what we might see on the way to the North Pole. This makes us a writer and a reader! 

Great job girls!   

 

On Tuesday, the class Christmas tree came out and we all got to decorate it. 

Looking good friends! 

Each car of this train has a letter in our last name 

Pattern blocks not only made our trains this week, but many other pictures. 

Just having a little reading time. :) 

Of course we had to set up the train tracks for this week. 

We used pattern blocks to make a train then graphed which shapes we used. Wow!  We worked on spatial reasoning, colors, counting, shape recognition, graphing and determining which had the most and least. We are smarties for sure! 

What a fun week using literature to make so many connections! We can't wait for next week to have fun with our new theme, Gingerbread.

Thanksgiving week

This week we remembered all we are thankful for while learning about the first Thanksgiving.  We celebrated with our friends in Mrs. Jaime and Mrs. Jenn's class with a story and some yummy Thanksgiving treats.  Thanks friends for another great week!  I hope you have a wonderful Thanksgiving with your family!!

Identifying and finding numbers in order to create a path to the Mayflower. 

Lacing cards strengthens our fine motor skills 

I loved reading all the answers on where families get their turkeys and how to cook them!  So fun. :) 

Putting together and reading the sentence "I am thankful for all my blessings." 

Check out all the fabulous disguised turkeys!!    

Matching the letter sound with each picture card 

Look at these pretty Pilgrim girls 

Working hard on our graphing skills 

Meeting with our other Pilgrim and Native American friends. 

Praying for our blessings and our yummy snacks with our friends 

It looks like we are looking forward to eating turkey this week!

*Happy Thanksgiving!

 

Fall Fun!

We have had a great couple of weeks learning about leaves and turkeys to finish out our fall themes.  The teachers picked out all of our goodies to purchase from our trike-a-thon donations and those items came in this week!  The kids are already using the new center items and loving them.  Thank you so much!!  We are so grateful for the awesome families of LAP!

Snack time! 

Enjoying our homemade play-doh made by our fabulous moms! 

Look at this smartie matching every upper and lowercase letter! 

Check out this oil pan purchased from wal-mart (ha!) that works as a giant magnetic board. This friend is spelling his color words with magnetic letters. 

Using bingo dotters to find letter sounds 

What a colorfult turkey! 

Scooping, measuring and pouring in the sensory table is fun. 

Great teamwork boys! 

This is a new purchase! This friend found the correct patterns to build the car to match the card. 

Our new window blocks. They make great windows and doors and look pretty cute with a sweet friend peeking through. :) 

Painting colorful turkeys 

Great coloring boys 

Our new graphing chart is perfect for carpet time discussions.  Looks like our class is looking forward to winter (not me)! :) 

This group put together an ABC floor puzzle 

We got a new puppet stand too!  Looks like a good show. 

Thanks to Emmy's mom for planning a fun craft for us.  We are thankful for many things! 

We can spell and read November 

Enjoying our new hopscotch rug 

Our hand prints made some special turkeys 

We had such a great collection of leaves brought in that we were able to create leaf people. :)

*See you tomorrow for a short two day week learning about Thanksgiving!