Nov. 17, 2008

Parents,
This morning we ate breakfast and drew a picture of an ice cream cone in our journals. For our fine motor work we cut pictures out of magazines and made collages, counted pegs and put them on peg boards, worked with community helper cars, and worked with larger wooden number blocks. We all came to the carpet and I created an upper case letter "I" and a lower case letter "i" on the carpet using masking tape. We talked about all of the strokes needed to create these letters. We were unable to have our circle time today because Mr. Emilio needed to clean up something in our classroom. We played outside with our Pre-K friends. I began reading the book, "It's Thanksgiving", a series of Thanksgiving poems. During center time we worked in the home center creating food to eat, worked in the dollhouse center, and worked in the art center. In the art center I worked with each child individually to help the create a turkey. I painted their hands with fall colors and they made a handprint on a paper with their name that they had written. With extra time, some of the children chose to create their own turkey handprint by painting their own hands. Tomorrow we'll add features to our turkeys. We had lunch and played on the playground with our Pre-K friends. This afternoon we'll begin creating "Five Fat Turkeys in a Tree" artwork by dipping our hands in brown paint and making five brown handprints up in the limbs of a tree. We'll add feathers, eyes, and number them 1-5.
I hope everyone has a great evening!
Read to your kiddos!
Kali Parsons