Nov. 18, 2008

Parents,
This morning we ate breakfast and drew the beginning of our turkey hands in our journals. For our fine motor work we drew with small pieces of chalk on small chalkboards, laced letters and numbers, counted pegs on peg boards, and created pictures with plastic shapes. During circle time we determined that it's cloudy today, felt a puffy white cloud, counted to 18 during calendar time, and danced to "Ride that Pony" (a song about position words - front, side, back). We played outside with our Pre-K friends. We all held part of a big parachute and made it go up and down. We did a pattern with our lifting and lowering (fast, fast, slow, fast, fast, slow and up, down, up, down). When we all came to the circle area back inside, we danced to "Five Fat Turkeys". I continued reading the next poem in our Thanksgiving poem book for storytime. During center time we added features to our turkeys (beak, legs/feet, waddle, and an eye). We also turned our home center into a restaurant and began creating menus. Ms. McGuire came today and did speech therapy. We had lunch and played on the playground with our Pre-K friends. After rest we'll go to Pre-K and continue working on our five fat turkeys in the tree. We'll add real feathers, googly eyes, legs/feet, beaks, waddles, and the numbers 1-5.
Have a wonderful evening!
Kali Parsons