Apples!

We had two weeks of apple fun in Pre-K! There were so many fun things to do with apples it was hard to choose which pictures to put on here! We made many colorful crafts, taste tested, graphed, stamped with apples, and even discovered a star inside our apples. What a fun theme!

Sequencing the cycle of an apple

Reading about apples

We LOVED the story about the little red house with no doors or windows and a star inside! We didn't know that when you cut an apple horizontally, a star appears!

We used our bodies to go through the apple cycle. We started as seeds then grew into saplings, then into trees with leaves, then apple blossoms and finally an apple tree!

We enjoyed hearing our student of the day share

We made our fingers into worms and snuck through an apple. :)

We taste tested 3 varieties of apples

Green was our favorite!

We graphed the results

More student of the day sharing

Wow! One smart boy made his snack into a letter!

We used apples to stamp

We get out white boards and practice the letters, numbers and even words we know!

On Tuesday, the Lafayette Fire Department visited us! We loved their visit!!
Gavin's daddy and Firefighter Nate teach us about fire fighter's gear

Visiting the truck

The nozzle is heavy!

Thank you Lafayette Fire Department!

Finally, we made some beautiful apples to hang in our windows at home

and celebrated a special birthday. :) What a fun week!

Pet week!

Doggies, Kitties, fish and even hermit crabs had our attention this week! We love using our new theme each week for new art work, new center ideas, new books, new songs and theme related goodies on our "table work." Each new theme gives us a chance to share with our friends what we know about the topic and learn even more. :) We were definitely experts in the area of pets!

We are identifying and reading our color words!

Sometimes you have to get in costume to go about your day at preschool. :)

Wow! 4 friends working together sharing the cars for this town!

The pattern blocks have been a hit this week.

We definitely have a class of builders!

Great structures boys!

Working so hard....and looking good while doing it! :)

We love using bingo dotters to make patterns.

Blue, green, blue green.... Perfect!

With some paper, glue and scissors, our minds can make anything! What a great house, complete with windows and a chimney!
We started student of the day this week. Everyone gets to take home the box and put goodies inside to bring back to share. This is fun for us and helps us improve our communication skills.

Watercolors always make our artwork bright and colorful!

We had a birthday this week! Happy birthday to you, happy birthday to you!!

Since it was pet week, we got our hermit crab out for a visit. The class built this wall for him and we placed him in a bowl of water. They loved watching him move around.

Hi there Mr. Crab...I think the class named him Batman or Mario??? The vote was so close. ha!

Friends Week

We spent the week doing what we do best....playing, sharing and laughing with our friends. The theme was friends and we spent time talking about our friends and how to be a good friend to others. We have such a wonderful group of kids in our class so they were already experts at being a good friend. :) I am so proud of them!

Buddy painting

Happy birthday to you!!

Our friendship quilt

We are family!

We had a wonderful 2nd week of school with our theme family. I got to hear so many wonderful things about your family and what you like to do together. The home projects were great and gave each kiddo a chance to talk and share in front of the group about something he or she is proud of...their family!

What a creative structure!

Our cutting skills are already improving!

We use many tools when we're working with play-dough

We find some interesting tools in our science area for discovering!

The weather was beautiful this week!

We stamped the members of our family

We always create beautiful pieces of art with various materials, like this....

or this....

or even this. :)

We told what mommies, daddies, brothers and sisters like to do and our teachers enjoyed hearing our answers. :)

We graphed how many girls, boys and pets lived in our home and then told which one had the most and least.

We love to learn new things, sing, dance, read stories and just talk at carpet time. We love our little school family! :)