Tot School - Pets 4/25

What a great day of tot school!  There were so many happy faces and giggles.  All the kids are starting to play independent of me, which is fantastic!  Our theme today was about pets.  We read "The Big Red Barn" a handful of times and played with a bunch of hand puppets.  We also played with the toy kitchen and Rock-Em Sock-Em Robots was brought down as well. :)

 With Mother's Day just a few weeks away we may have started a fun gift today.  It's awesome to be in such a good groove as a whole class that I can work one-on-one with each child doing something as messy as hand print painting without the rest of the room falling apart.

 Outside we visited the pet bunny and then pretended to be the pet animals in the outdoor run that the bunny uses from time to time. We had a super fun day together!

Tot School Pets

We had a great day learning about pets in tot school. Everyone loved the stuffed animals and the masks that we played with.  We talked about how to treat animals kindly. We practiced the songs we'd be singing for our end of year celebration, played puzzles, reviewed all our letters and played outside in the snow.  Can you believe that it snowed?  May is crazy like that in Colorado. What a great day of school!

Tot School Thursday - Pets (and bugs!)

We had such a lovely last day of Tot School Thursday today.  We got to talk all about pets.  First thing this morning we started coloring and putting together our TP roll pets.  Everyone made a dog today.  Some of them ended up as striped dogs and some were left more white because other fun things were happening :)

 We practiced sitting on our green mats and listening to stories.  We read all about pets and practiced petting and gently scratching our stuffed animal pets.

 Then we headed outside for snack time of pretzels and applesauce.

 We learned how to sit on the bug bouncers even though we have little bodies.  It was so fun to watch them play with these!

 Still working on snack...

 We also played with the play-dough and scissors.  Keep practicing those scissor skills at home!

 We learned how to play the bug spray game for the bug party tonight.  We needed to fill up the bugs with water and spray off the bugs on the chalkboard.

 We also got out our sensory activity.  Today we played with water beads.  They are really fun to explore.  They're all squishy and wet yet feel a little like marbles.  I think everyone liked them.

 Ye-ha!

 I tried to get a class picture toward the end of the day but it didn't go so well.  I should have done this first thing before we were tired from the day.  They still are so super cute!  "Cute as a bug" you might say.  I'm so glad I get to have so many of them join me again in the fall.  Have a great summer little ones!

Tuesday Preschool - Pets (and Bugs!)

It was such a delightful last day of Tot School Tuesday. We learned all about pets (and then threw in some bug activities at the end of the day to be ready for our bug party). 

 We started the day inside making TP roll pets.  They are so cute!  We made dogs and bunnies.

 Everyone colored their own parts and then I assembled them.

 We read a few books about pets, pet needs, and how to show a pet you love them.  We did the ASL for all the pets as we came across them in our books.

 We headed outside for snack time.  Today we had g/f pretzels (circle shapes), apples and cucumbers.  Yum!

Next I got out the "Bug Spray" game to teach them how to play before the bug party.

 There are little bug sprayers and we had to fill them up in the bucket of water and then spray off the pictures of bugs on the chalk board.  They had so much fun and played this game for quite a long time. At this point all the stuffed animal pets had been forgotten :)

 Our sensory activity for Pets was a bowl of water beads.  They're basically the same type of little beads that absorb moisture in a diaper, but are sold as decorative vase fillers.  They absorb water and have a very squishy feel to them.  The kids LOVED sticking their hands in this bowl.  In fact, I thought it was cool and interesting feeling enough to stick my hands in a few times :)

 Trying on our antenna headbands for our bug party :)  I was going to get a class picture but VB was out sick today :(.  Hopefully we'll get one at the bug party!

 Back inside playing with the pets tot pack while I gathered all of their artwork and items from the school year to send home.  It was such a delightful year.  I'm so happy to have so many of these kids coming back next year!