Jan. 9, 2009

Parents,
This morning we ate breakfast and drew a picture of a heart (representing love) in our journals. For our fine motor work we made frogs jump, built structures with bristle blocks, and made funny faces with magnetic face parts. We went to the library with Pre-K and Ms. Kraal read two books about snowy weather. We went to the playground afterward and played with our Pre-K friends. We returned to the classroom and continued our fine motor work and we barely had time in the morning. During center time today we made hot chocolate as a group. We all asked for cups and packets of hot chocolate powder. Everyone tore open their packet and poured it in the cups. We then asked for water and I poured water in everyone's cups. We used craft sticks to stir, stir, stir. When it was fully mixed, everyone chose how many marshmallows to put in their hot chocolate. I had a bunch of marshmallows on a paper towel and each child had to pick out the number they wanted. Everyone did a GREAT job counting! We all enjoyed drinking our hot chocolate! After each of them finished they were given a picture of a mug of hot chocolate. They water color painted the mugs and glued five marshmallows on top (then they got to eat one more marshmallow). We also worked on our letter "L" art work gluing lights, leaves, "L"s, and pictures of our classmate whose name starts with "L". When we were done we had a little time left to play with Mr. Potato Head. Busy morning! Whew! We had lunch and went to the playground with Pre-K. After rest we'll continue our work with gluing a certain number of buttons on craft sticks.
Have a great weekend!
Kali Parsons