Preschool Nursery Rhymes 1-28 and 1-30

We had so much fun reviewing the letters we've already learned (MTASBHCILPFJOND) during Nursery Rhyme week.  We stamped and colored, played with magnets, sandpaper letters, Starfall.com and Starfall Speedway.  We started practicing singing the song "Hot Cross Buns" so that we'd be familiar with it while learning to play it on the piano.  

We had such a great week!

Tot School Nursery Rhymes

We had a great time learning all about Nursery Rhymes in tot school.  They loved playing with all the blocks and the stamp pads.  For art we glued cotton balls onto sheep shapes.  We played "Ring-Around-The-Rosies" about a zillion times, no kidding.  It was such a fun day in school!

D is for Dancing

Dancing is such a fun day in preschool.  We turn on music and dance the day away!  We danced like robots, did yoga, the chicken dance, and dressed up in costumes.  We played the piano and enjoyed a variety of different types of music to dance to. 

 Our dancing art was such a hit!  I laid out 3 long strips of paper side by side and dropped splats of paint all over it.  With rolled up pants we danced all over the paper and made such a wonderful group picture!

Dancing Dinosaurs in Tot School

Talk about oodles of fun!  We learned about the letter D by playing with dinosaurs in our indoor sandbox and dancing the day away!  Everyone loved digging and playing with the tot packs and puzzles. 

 We did a fun stamping activity with dinosaur outlines, made dinosaur sock puppets and even did an amount of yoga (that's dancing, right?).  We had so much fun!

Dinosaurs in Preschool!

We had so much fun learning all about dinosaurs!  To beat the winter cold we decided to purchase the sand for our sandbox in January and fill up a swimming pool with it in the living room.  It made for a whole lot of fun for about a week!  The sandbox was filled with dinosaur toys of all sorts as well as paintbrushes for digging.  We read "Dinosaurs Before Dark" and practiced making dinosaur noises all day. 

 We wrote/drew book reports about the story we read before moving on to talk about patterns, practicing the piano, working with puzzles and reading more books.  It was a great day!

Manners

We had so much fun today.  As a review day we got to plug in all the activities that we've missed in the last few weeks.  We got messy and had lots of fun.  The kids really loved the "No, David!" series of books and read them over and over.  We continued working on AB patterns and hope to move to AAB patterns next Tuesday.  

Manners

Tot school this week was all about manners and the letter N.  We had so much fun playing with Starfall.com and the letter N.  The kids LOVED the part where the little boy is swinging a net to try and catch a butterfly.  They played that page over and over again.  They also loved running around with the flip chips using them as "money".  I believe it was raining money on people and the trampoline was the "bank".  We also spent much of the day playing with the peg boards building many towers.