100th Day Tomorrow 01/30/2012
Hi Everyone, we hope you had a great weekend and enjoyed the beautiful weather! Tomorrow is the 100th day of school! We hope you received the email asking everyone to bring in 100 items. This can be something very simple, just count it out with your child to make sure you have 100. Here are some ideas: 100 stickers, buttons,cheerios, toothpicks, paper clips, jelly beans, chocolate chips, m&ms,beads, Lego bricks, sequins, marbles, pompoms etc. Thank you in advance for your participation in this fun day! Add Comment Have you filled a bucket today? 01/20/2012
 Have you heard your child mention being a bucket filler or a bucket dipper lately? you have? Great!! We were fortunate enough to be able to borrow this book from one of the parents in our room and we were immediately hooked! It is all about how to treat other people and how when you treat others nicely you fill their invisible bucket and your own invisible bucket. If you do mean things to others you dip into their bucket and into their own. We love the whole idea of the book and we have really incorporated the book into our daily talk with the students. The students are also highly interested in the book and its message. Today we took pictures of every one treating each other fairly, taking turns, sharing and listening to the teachers. We are going to make a bulletin board in the classroom dedicated to this book. It's a positive behavior plan and every one is excited! Thanks Mrs. Cordasco! In other news, we are in need of bubble wrap. If you have any laying around please bring it in! Interesting article about preschoolers and sleep: http://www.aboutourkids.org/articles/making_bedtime_easier We have a pARCTICularly nICE class :) 01/13/2012
Well it's definitely fitting weather for us to begin our Arctic animals unit. This is a great theme for us as it provides us with so many great science and craft activities for us. Get ready to see some adorable polar animal projects! In Phonics, we did the letters P and e and did a lot of practicing with our writing and letter recognition. Our writing is really improving which is very exciting. In Science, we have been an absolute blast with exploration of the Arctic. This week we learned about whales and their baleen. We talked about how krill and other small fish and plants flow through the baleen with the water and the water flows out. We represented this by taking out the good ol' water table and filling it with carrots to represent krill and water. The lions loved using a comb to push through the water like baleen and catch krill. We also had some good clean fun when we explored what would happen when you submerged soap bars in water for hours. We discovered we could mold, shape and squish the sand. This was a great lesson about liquid and solids. The water table also provided lots more slippery fun with arctic animal toys and squishy bouncy water beads. These beads that usually fill vases as a decoration were a great sensory activity for our students as they played with the arctic animals in the tub. Other sensory exploration was done with texture in our art projects. We did a mix of shaving cream and glue that appealed to both our noses and our sense of touch. We painted our polar bears and then watched as they dried to a puffy smooth white paint. We also painted snow with a mix of white paint and craft sand. They did nICE work :) For our marshmallow snowmen we got to see how liquid and the sugar would react when we licked the bottoms of the marshmallows to stick on the snowman. We've been researching all about Arctic animals and learning lots of facts! Today we even pretended to be penguins and huddled together to keep warm and waddled around! Ask your child what they learned about penguins! In Math, we talked a lot about shapes and then used those different shapes to create some awesome projects. We used triangles, rectangles, trapezoids and diamonds to create some beautiful snowflakes. We also learned about circles and made circle polar bears all on our own. Those beauties made it straight to the bulletin board! Crafts: We have practicing our cutting, coloring in the lines and tracing. We had a WHALE of a time cutting out some whale tails to hang on our door. We also traced shapes for our walrus and added the tusks as well. We even tried a very complicated color by letter polar bear paper and everyone worked so hard! ***Correction: Sorry about the confusion with the last post about the upcoming events. The irresistible "Copy and paste" got me! I copied the schedule from the Bears' blog and some things didn't quite match up! Sorry about that and 
Check out this article! 12/29/2011
http://braintree.patch.com/articles/the-sunrise-senior-living-center-sing-christmas-carols#cBraintree Happy Holidays from Preschool 2 ! 12/27/2011
 We hope to find you all doing well during the holidays! We have been having a lot of fun getting ready for Hanukkah, Christmas, Kwanzaa and New Year celebrations. There are so many fun crafts, snacks and activities at this time of year that it's been hard to find the time to do it all! Last week, we baked our own sugar cookies and frosted them ourselves! We also made our own menorahs with our fingerprints as the candles and flames. We made beautiful and sparkly Christmas collages and we also worked very hard on your Christmas gifts! We hope you enjoyed opening a little something special from your little lion! We also went to Sunrise Assisted Living in Braintree to perform some holiday classics! The students and the residents at Sunrise enjoyed the interaction and performance immensely! We also made reindeer food for you to sprinkle on your lawns before Christmas. We hope Rudolph and his friends enjoyed that special treat. We also had a lot of fun with Mr.Sam in Music class. He taught us the Mr.Grinch song and we loved it. Reminder: Please make sure your lion has hats, gloves, mittens and scarves. It' really cold out now and we always go out and play so we really need to keep bundled up, Thanks. Save these dates in January!:
Did you get a Keurig for Christmas? Yes? You lucky duck! Bring us all of your old coffee filters, there are a ton of projects for us to do with them! Also, we always welcome: Clorox Wipes Cotton Balls Glue Sticks Markers Brown paper bags Kleenex Big bags of white rice food coloring Fruit ( our students LOVE fruit. Headed to the store? See a giant sale but there is no way you would eat ten bananas? send them our way!) As always we wholeheartedly appreciate all the generous and thoughtful donations you make to our school and classroom. We are so lucky to have you! Please check out all the new pictures under Holiday Happenings on the left hand column of this page! Thanks, The Lions Polar Express Tomorrow! 12/22/2011
Wear your pajamas tomorrow for Polar Express day tomorrow! We will be watching the movie and enjoying our last day together before Christmas. Enjoy your holidays everyone! Santa Claus is coming to town! 12/20/2011
 We've had such a busy and fun week preparing for Hanukkah and Christmas. We have made some really great crafts but a couple of them are secret presents!! We learned about symmetry by folding paper and cutting out one mitten and then we got two! We decorated them with beautiful sequins and snowflakes. They look snuggly and beautiful! We also started learning "The Twelve Days of Christmas" song and have made some really silly and fun crafts to go with them. Including turtle pictures where we glued feathers to make turtle doves! In snack, we have made some delicious treats including a Bear's snack where we ate strawberries and fish (goldfish crackers) just like a real bear! It was delicious after a long winter's nap. We made yummy reindeer with chocolate covered doughnuts, red m&ms for a nose, and pretzels for antlers. The lions devoured those deer! mmm. Today we began our celebration of Hanukkah with our special Hanukkah books and our fingerprint menorah. We learned all about lighting the candles and the original story of Hanukkah. The students are really enjoying learning about the holiday and are very interested. * Congratulations to all of our karate kids who earned their new belts! ** We are going to Sunrise to sing Christmas songs with the whole preschool tomorrow, wear your holiday best!** December Happenings 12/09/2011
Sorry for the delay in posting, we have been so busy in the Lions Room! We have started a new theme for the month of December: Hibernation and Migration. We have been learning about what animals hibernate and migrate and where they go. We have been sleeping bears in Dramatic play and we even have two pet turtles (plastic :) that are hibernating in our room! Of course we are also very busy with holiday excitement! We made some beautiful trees and decorated them with snow made from Epsom Salt in Art with Miss Nicky! We are making some awesome reindeer for our bulletin board this week and we are using a paper chain to count down to Hanukkah and Christmas. We have a lot of other fun holiday crafts in store as well. Having trouble finding a lunch that your child will eat? Check out these ideas (minus the peanut ones) for some filling and delicious ideas: http://www.eatingwell.com/recipes_menus/collections/healthy_kids_lunch_recipes http://busycooks.about.com/od/breakfastrecipes/a/brownbaglunch.htm http://stayathomemoms.about.com/od/raisingyourchildren/a/101-Ideas-For-Kids-Lunches.htm Hope this helps! More updates to come, check out our Pictures Posted--- Fall 2011 11/09/2011
See your lion hard at work and having fun in our pictures section! Click on the Pictures :) tab on the left column and click on Fall 2011 to check out our most recent pictures including our Dramatic Play (Farmer's Market), tracing farm animals, stamping, cutting and making letters with noodles! We love feedback so comment as much as you like. Enjoy, parents and friends! FARMulous Times in Preschool 2! 11/08/2011
 Well, it's been a crazy couple of weeks in Preschool 2! Halloween was an absolute blast! We enjoyed so many delicious treats that were brought in by all of you wonderful parents. We also enjoyed some vegetables and cheese during our indulgence just to offset the sugar highs a bit. It was so awesome to see our preschoolers in their "costumes" even though most of them believed they were the real character that they were dressed as. We read spooky stores, made trick or treat bags and did some pretty funky dance moves to "The Monster Mash". After Halloween, we started our new theme for the month, Farms.This is such a fun unit as we learn about why farm animals are important, we shop at our pretend Farmer's Market and we get to make lots of animal noises! We are having a blast making farm animal crafts, making crazy mud with Miss Nicky and clopping blocks like horse's hooves! In Phonics, we are doing the letter F which is Fabulous fun! We learned about Francie the Fish and the /f/ sound. Ask your lion if they can name any words that start with f! There are lots of fun things coming up in Preschool 2. Our Sunrise visit is tomorrow and that is always a favorite with our friends. They love visiting all the grandmas and grandpas. Miss Lisa at Sunrise always has the best activities planned for us too. We have lots of pictures to put on the blog so check back soon and check them out! Have any questions, comments or ideas? Comment on our blog, we love to hear from you! | AuthorsMs. Bridget ArchivesJanuary 2012 Categories |
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