This week we made some fun Pilgrim hats
and Native American headdresses to wear during our Thanksgiving snack next
week. To prepare for our feast, we all made delicious butter. For the
first step we filled a jar half way up with cream, the kids kept telling Mrs. M
to put in more cream until they agreed it was half way full. Step two they took turns shaking the jar and
they shook and shook it for a long time, each having a turn. While the children were busy making butter, Mrs. M told
them the story, "The Bread King and The Butter King," they were all very
attentive to the puppet stick pictures she used while telling the story. Meanwhile, they listened to the liquid as they
shook the jar and some of the children announced, “It’s getting harder to shake" and "I don’t hear the liquid.” After it
was cooled in the fridge we looked in the jar, it was smooth like a cloud, we had
a small tasting and how could it have not been anything but delicious!
The
Preschoolers finished making their playground scarecrow, there were plenty of
leaves around to fill up his pants and shirt and he really looked neat wearing
a Batman baseball cap. They made
beautiful clay turkeys with feathers using their fine motor skills, rolling and
molding the clay into a ball. They also made some turkey shapes, like his
wattle and wings, too. Continuing with the turkey theme, they had a feather
race, first they tried a turkey baster, but that didn’t work as well as blowing the feathers across the finish line.
The
Pre-K classroom spent some time learning how to organize their time and energy by
spending time at four new table centers, including finger painting at the sensory table, Legos at the manipulative table, using scissors at the fine motor table and creating Pilgrim hats at the art table. We played
a couple of fun turkey games to exercise their gross motor skills including Gobble, Gobble, Gobble Turkey a spinoff of Duck, Duck, Goose and Pin the Wattle on the Turkey which was
hysterical. The children each took a turn with a blindfold on and after one spin around they walked towards
Mr. Turkey, or so they thought, and placed the wattle on his head, the door, and
one wattle ended up in the bathroom, it was so much fun. This week’s word of the week was GRAPE. The children really enjoy learning a new word each week and I’m so happy they are being academically
challenged and I hope that they are showing off their writing and spelling
skills at home.
Lastly, we
want to say thank you to our special guest, Mrs. Karen, Hope and Molly’s Mom, who
read the book, "From Head to Toe" by Eric
Carle and helped the children create their very own book for the classroom.
What's up next?
SEE
will enjoy a Thanksgiving feast during snack time and Mr. Turkey will be thankful for the feathers the children will make for him.
Upcoming Dates and Reminders:
November 24-25: SEE is closed for the
Thanksgiving holiday
December 1: Tuition is due
December 26-January 2: SEE closed for
Winter Break
January 3: SEE is back in session and
tuition is due
Pictures
from the week:
All the children made a Pilgrim hat for our Thanksgiving feast!
Shaking and shaking turning cream into butter
Pre K started working on their HWT books
Painting with a feather at easels was very interesting to the artists
The preschoolers worked hard to give Mr. Scarecrow all his body parts
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