We don't really know what color they were, how big they were or even if they said anything, but it is always fun to imagine! We did just that this week as we learned so much about dinosaurs! We made dinosaurs with bones (Q-tips), painted with dino feet and even drew our own dinosaurs. We counted, sorted and patterned with dinosaurs. We measured our feet to the LARGE size of a dinosaur footprint. We talked about what paleontologists do and most of us decided that could be a cool job! We resear...

Monday in art the children painted with dinosaur stampers and in language the children traced letters with dinosaur counters. In math the children matched numbered dinosaurs together. Tuesday in art the children tore paper and constructed a dinosaur on their paper with the torn pieces. In language the children engaged in a dinosaur bingo activity and in math they rolled a die and added the corresponding number of dinosaurs to a grid. Wednesday in art the children did some cutting practice and...

Dinosaur Week

We introduced the them with 5 different types of Dinosaurs with colors to practice both. We named the Dinosaurs at group time and I had the children point to the Dinosaurs named.

Art

This week the children have made the following Dinosaur art; marble painted on green paper with orange paint, glued a cracked Dino egg with die cut shaped dinosaurs, glued the letter "D" on Dinosaur pattern with glitter, paint paper plates and glued on long neck and...

This week we learned about families and the children talked about who is in their family. We made a chart by showing who is in our family, and counted how many people are in our family. We talked about how families are similar and different. We also talked about how what makes us happy and what we are thankful for. Most of the children said that they are thankful for their mommy, daddy, and families.

We made a portrait of our family and named the people in our family, we ma...

This week was all about our families! We learned a lot! We talked about who was in our families and who had the biggest family! Not everyone did our chart on the door, but it looks like Abigail has the biggest with so many sisters! We made some pictures of our houses and drew our families in the house. We spelled out family member names like mom, dad, sister, brother. Some of our math games were sorting and patterning with the bear family and "making" a pizza with our favorite toppings. We ad...

With Thanksgiving approaching this week's theme was a great lead in to discuss how important families are, who is in a family and how thankful we are for family. Monday in art the children did some emotion face stamping and in language the children dictated what they like to do with their family. Tuesday in art the children explored playdough and in math they graphed people counters by color. Wednesday in art the children glued turkeys to a headband for the feast and in language they explored...

Families Week

No art Tuesday due to picture day

We introduced the theme by naming family members and looking at all of our family photos posted in the quiet corner, and sang "We are Family" song.

Art

The children sponge painted on colored paper pattern houses making rectangle shapes for windows and doors, made our Turkey Hats for Thanksgiving feast tomorrow, make a Family photo frame out of crafts sticks and decorate, and Friday we will make a p...

This week in the infant classroom the theme is Families. We have talked about quite a bit but here are our crowd favorites. Today, we all had such a blast at our Thanksgiving Feast! We loved talking about all the foods we ate today, and which was our favorite. The older infants enjoyed stamping with empty paper towel rolls dipped in orange paint. It was fun to practice standing and making art with friends and teachers. We also enjoyed sticking leaves to clear contact paper, exploring stacking...

Hello families!

We hope that you had a great week...we sure did! This week was theme week and boy it did not disappoint! We started off this week with our cool sunglasses. The children worked hard at the art table creating their sun! Moving on to Tuesday, we had backwards day and it was fun seeing the children with their clothes backwards especially their jackets! On Wednesday we had crazy hair day...we had mohawks, braids, many pigtails, purple, blue and green hair! Towards the end of...

Lots of fun theme days this week. Monday in art the children painted with cups and in language they traced letters with poker chips. In math the children added colored gems to a grid. Tuesday in art the children did some symmetry art, painting with string inside a folded piece of paper., and in math thy added jewels to a crown. Wednesday in art the children wanted to freely color and do playdough, so we did some fine motor explorations with playdough tools. In language the children matched rh...