Track and Field Day was a huge success! We played Tug of War...

Parachute Games...

Sack Races...

Relay Races

What Great Fun!

Thank you Crista Bandstra for sharing pictures with us!

After our bridal shower we made veils and bow ties for our wedding of q and u.

Together we led them down the "aisle" and sang this song:

"Oh today I'm going to marry miss U

Oh today I'm going to marry Mr. Q

Oh we'll have a lot of fun when our two sounds

become one, and together we can make a word like

___________" and we used words from our bridal shower that being with

q and u. Hopefully it will be an activity they will remember.

"If you're gonna have a q, then you gotta have a u, because q and u stick together like glue!" In order to help the kids understand this we had a wedding for q and u complete with a bridal shower.

We brought things from home that started with q, u or both of the letters and wrapped them up as shower gifts for Mr. Q and Miss U. We wrote down the words and sorted the items. Mr. Q and Miss U were so excited by all of the presents they received at their bridal shower!

This week at dramatic play we had a library checkout center. They "checked out books" and practiced reading them.
We have had fun with math this week. The students dropped 6 balls above a hoop. They then counted how many dropped inside, and how many dropped outside and wrote addition problems.
We got to practice reading using martian fingers!
We built sight words with magnets and then got to write the words on a mirror with window markers!

We have been learning about weather and the seasons for the last couple of weeks. At dramatic play we practiced reading on the "beach"
We also did addition problems using clouds (cotton balls) and adding them together!

We read various versions of the gingerbread story this week. Tuesday we got to make our very own gingerbread boy or girl.

We put them into the oven to bake. When we were ready to eat them, we pulled out the trays and they were GONE!

Run, run as fast as you can, you can't catch me I'm the gingerbread man! We chased the gingerbread people all over the school to try to find them. We even got to RUN in the hallway! We finally found them and ate them for a snack. What fun!

The students built fine motor skills this week by punching holes in stockings and sewing them with yarn.
This child is writing a letter to Santa using a greeting card.
We read the book Hansel and Gretel. The snow white dove from the story delivered a path out of the forest with clue cards telling our class how to escape. We followed the pattern cards and tried to get out of the forest without reaching a dead end. The children LOVED this story and game. We are working on making our own board games to take home and play.
Each tree below has a number written on it. The students were to decorate the tree with the appropriate number of ornaments.