Dec. 3, 2008

Parents,
This morning we ate breakfast and drew a picture of a jelly jar in our journals (3 great letter "J" words!). For our fine motor work we cut paper and created pictures with geometric shapes. We also observed the two gerbils that are visiting our classroom. During circle time we determined that it's windy today, counted to 3 during calendar, and danced to "The Freeze". We played outside with our Pre-K friends. I read "We're Going on a Bear Hunt" for story time. We acted out the entire book. It was sometimes the same as the song we do and sometimes different. During centers we created fall trees to go on our community map. We each had a toilet paper tube, sheets of red, orange, and yellow tissue paper, and glue. We put the tissue paper in the end of the tube and glued it in place. We then glued our trees to our community map. We also observed our gerbils in the pet center. Each child drew pictures of them and their cage and what they were doing. Ms. Welcome and I transcribed their stories. We also worked with shaving cream. We used small wiffle balls to draw shapes/letters in the shaving cream. It was interesting to see how the balls made trails in the shaving cream. We independently read books about bears just before lunch. We had lunch and played on the playground with Pre-K. This afternoon in Pre-K we'll begin creating fall trees using a science tool, a pipette. We'll color round coffee filters with orange, brown, yellow, and red markers. Then we'll use the pipettes to put drops of water on the filter, causing the colors to bleed together. This will be the top of our trees. We'll continue working on these the remainder of the week.
Have a great night!
Kali Parsons