Five For Friday {August 30, 2013}

 

Happy Weekend!  Once again, I'm linking up with Doodle Bugs Teaching for her weekly Five for Friday linky party. 

 

1.  We've had so much fun with our All About Me Theme!  Earlier in the week I posted pictures of our rainbow name writing.  Here's how they look now that they've been displayed in the classroom along with the little darling's self portraits.  I love the way they turned out!  {Click here to see the previous post}

 

2.  As part of our All About Me theme, we asked the families to send in some of the following things:  a baby picture of their peanut, a family photo, their favorite toy, favorite book, and a favorite snack to share with the class.  They also filled out an All About Me paper that I downloaded from Pamela Hyer's TPT store.  The kids LOVED sharing all of the treasures in their bags! 

3.  On Thursday we had the little sweeties favorite snacks that they brought in with their All About Me bags.  Here are a few of them enjoying their snacks. 

4.  Thursday for table time we played with play-dough.  It was a great way to end the week!

 

5.  Earlier in the week I posted some of the things the little darlings said they can do.  Here's part two of what the kids said they can do.  {Click here to see the previous post}

 

As you can see, we had a great week!  I hope you all enjoy the Labor Day weekend! 

 

Thanks for stopping by!

~Beth

All About Me Activities

This week our theme is "All About Me" and we're having lots of fun learning more about each other!  Monday the kids practiced writing their names using Dot Art markers.  I wrote each of the little darlings names in marker like this:

Then, they matched the color of the letter in their name to the corresponding Dot Art marker and......ta-da! Rainbow names! {idea from Deanna Jump's literacy and math fun with names unit on TPT}

 

During circle time, we talked about how we all have things we're good at and things that make us special.  We each had a turn to say one thing that we can do.  I was really impressed with the things they came up with!  {idea from Little Illuminations)

 

We also made "All About Me" pennants yesterday.  My friend Lola at Preschool Wonders has this pennant in her TPT store, {click here} if you'd like a copy.  We helped the sweeties add their name, birthday, eye color, hair color, favorite color, favorite food, favorite toy, and number of siblings.

 

Thanks for stopping by!

~Beth

 

Five For Friday {August 23, 2013}

 

Once again, I'm linking up with Doodle Bugs Teaching for her weekly Five for Friday linky party.  We did it...we survived the first full week of school and it was a great week! 

 

1.  We've been practicing lining up and staying in line while walking.  Look at what an awesome job these little sweeties are doing!

 

2.  Here's one of my little darlings showing off his snack placemat.  We made these on the first day of school.  They have each child's name, colors, shapes, and their birthday on them.  The afternoon kids also have their phone number and address.  I'm hoping these will be a great way to practice this information and help me do quick assessments of these skills.

3.  We read Brown Bear, Brown Bear What do you See? this week.  On Monday, we painted paper plate pieces brown and on Tuesday we assembled them.  The finished product is below.  I love art projects because we work on lots of great skills {like following directions, body parts, positional words, and don't forget all the fine motor skills} without the kids even knowing.  It's also so much fun to see how the projects reflect each child's personality.

4.  We always display some of the sweeties art work, but this year I've given each child a circle with their name on it.  That way, no matter where there name is on the art project, we'll all know whose project is whose!

 

5.  After snack, the afternoon kids each have their own journal to draw and write in.  After reading Brown Bear, this little darling drew a brown bear of his own!  Can you believe what an awesome artist he is?!  They impressed me so much with their journals this week, I can't wait to see what other amazing things they draw and write this year!

 

Here are some bonus pictures from our week:

 

After reading Brown Bear, we colored each of the animals in the story.  They loved coloring the animals and using the paper to retell the story!

Look at these cuties sitting and reading so nicely!  We're really practicing book handling skills, so I was so happy when I caught them making such good choices!

It makes me so happy to see them playing together!  I love overhearing the conversations during playtime.  I can't even begin to explain how far they've come with their play skills!

 

Thanks for stopping by!

Happy weekend!

~Beth

 

 



Five for Friday {August 16, 2013}

 

I'm teaming up with Doodle Bugs Teaching for her weekly Five For Friday linky party. 

 

1.  Yesterday was the first day of school and we had a great day.  Here are a few pictures of my little darlings.  :)

 

2.  We made these necklaces yesterday.  I couldn't believe what an awesome job the kids did stringing the beads.  My fabulous friend Lola {from Preschool Wonders} made the badge we added.  It says "I had fun on my first day of Pre-K."

 

 3.  One of my sweeties brought me these beautiful flowers for the first day of school. 

 

4.  I finally got around to taking pictures of my classroom!  So, here's a little tour of our room...better late than never, right?!  :)

 

 

 

5.  It was so great to see my darlings who were with me last year.  I can't believe how much they've grown over the summer!  Can you tell this sweetie was excited to be back at school?  :)

 

 

Thanks for stopping by and Happy Friday!

~Beth