Sunday, December 12, 2010

Baking cookies and other fun activites






















We mixed cookied dough, rolled out the dough and made gingerbread cookies.



We also decorated gingerbread houses with holiday counters.






We sorted big and little bows and made cookie patterns.







We played a cookie matching game.




















The students had fun playing in the bakery.


















Sunday, December 5, 2010

Gingerbread House











We started to decorate the gingerbread house. We painted this week. Next week we will make patterns of candy and cookie shapes.








We had lots of fun painting!

Sunday, November 28, 2010

Happy Thanksgiving!







I hope everyone had a great Thanksgiving weekend.
This week we will read "The Gingerbread Man".
Don't forget about the pot luck on Wednesday night at 5:30.

Saturday, November 13, 2010

Vegetables

We made Salsa this week in cooking. We cut up tomatoes, cilantro and parsley.





We ran in the turkey trot on Wednesday.
We are taking care of the pumpkin seed sprouts.










We are shopping in the grocery store!

Sunday, November 7, 2010

G Is for Grocery Store


The grocery store is opened in our Dramatic play area. We had fun shopping for fruits and Vegetables.







We dug up vegetables in the dirt and washed them in the sink.


We cut up pretend vegetables too!












































Friday, October 29, 2010

Happy Halloween!




We showed off our costumes in the parade.












We made Jack O'Lanterns too!

























Next week, we will learn about fruits and veggies! We will have a grocery store set up in Dramatic Play. Please send in empty containers to stock our grocery store. (cereal boxes, milk jugs, cookie box etc.)

Thursday, October 21, 2010

"E" is for eggs

We made hard boiled eggs and scrambled eggs this week in cooking. We tasted them and made a graph to see what kind of eggs we liked best.

Our Fall Harvest/Halloween celebration will be on Friday, October 29th. Both classes can wear their costumes to school. The am class will parade with Ms. Somer's class at 8:45, then have a small celebration afterwards.
The PM class will parade with the entire school at 1:40, followed by a small celebration. Both classes will make an orange "Halloween shake" for snack.

Sunday, October 17, 2010

We went to the Farm!

We had a fun day at the farm in the zoo.

We brushed the goats.



We saw sheep and cows.






The ducks were swimming in the water!




Friday, October 8, 2010

C is for Cow

We are learning about farm animals this week. The students played with the farm animals in the barn.

We made milkshakes using a switch to activate the blender.













This week we made cows and corn stalksat the art center. Check out our bulletin board!


Don't forget.....Our trip to the farm in the zoo is on Thursday, October 14th.





























Thursday, September 30, 2010

F is for Farm

We finished our study on apples.
We will study farm and farm animals in October.

Friday, September 24, 2010

A is for Apple Pie



We made apple pies in cooking this week.













We rolled the dough and put a spoonful of apple filling on the dough. Then we baked the pies.


The apple pies were good!

Sunday, September 19, 2010

A is for Apple

We did lots of apple activities this week!
We sorted apples: red, yellow, green!







We made applesauce this week in cooking. Yum!







Friday, September 10, 2010

Circle Time






We have circle time every day. We read the morning message and check our schedule.







We greet each other and say "Hello"


We put a number on the calendar and count the shapes.