LETTER BUILDING

Yesterday we introduced an new activity at Free Choice called, "Letter Building".  The activity includes cards with upper case letters, lower case letters, and various wooden pieces.  Children "build" the letters on top of the cards using the wooden pieces.  This is a great "pre-writing" activity!

"SUPER" FREE CHOICE ACTIVITIES

The activity in the photos below is to Sift through the rice with a Slotted Spoon to find Spiders!

 In the activity below, children can weave a Spider Web and add a Spider!

 Sifting through the inside of the pumpkin to get the seeds!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY, NICK!

 Yesterday, we helped Nick celebrate his birthday!  His mom read us a story and then we  enjoyed eating donuts for snack!  Happy Birthday, Nick!

CAMPFIRE FUN!

PANCAKES AND PAJAMAS!

PAJAMA DAY!!

We had a PERFECT PRE-K  PAJAMA AND PANCAKE DAY!  Enjoy the photos below and check back later this weekend for even more photos from this fun--filled FANTASTIC FRIDAY!

 

 

ZERO THE HERO!

 Today we celebrated our 40th day of school.  To help us celebrate this Zero the Hero day, we counted and put 40 Halloween stickers on a spider web.  Thanks to Henry, Henry's mom, and Henry's sister for helping us celebrate!

SPANISH!

Be sure to ask your child what he/she did in Spanish today!

PUMPKIN, PUMPKIN

Yesterday we read the story, Pumpkin, Pumpkin.  Following the story, we passed around a pumpkin and asked the children to describe the outside of the pumpkin to us.  These are the ideas they came up with....

The pumpkin is....cold; very heavy; kind of small; bumpy and smooth; really heavy; really hard; smells like air; feels smooth; and feels heavy and cold.

Today, we reviewed our "Weekly Reader" and then cut open the pumpkin to look, see, and smell the inside of the pumpkin.  

 

Here is how the children described the inside of the pumpkin...

The pumpkin...is full of seeds; feels goopy; is wet and slippery; looks and smells yucky; is cold and goopy; feels super soft and gooey; looks like orange spaghetti with seeds; looks like orange vines with seeds; feels slippery; has seeds.

  

 

On Friday we will take the seeds out of the pumpkin to roast and eat next week for snack!

STAR OF THE WEEK~SHAIA!

 Today we learned more about our friend, Shaia.  Shaia shared many photos with us.  She also told us that her favorite colors are pink and purple; her favorite food is rice; and her favorite place to visit is the beach!

PRE-K PICNIC AND PLAYING ON THE PLAYGROUND

We had the Perfect day for having a Pre-K Picnic during our snack time.  We ate Popcorn and had Pink lemonade to drink!  We enjoyed our Picnic and Playing on the Playground with our Pals from Pre-K "B'!

SPELLING GAME

To follow up with our study of the letter sound /A/, we did a spelling activity today.  To begin, we read the story, Fat Cat, and identified the many rhyming words we heard.

 At the end of the book, there is a turning wheel that changes the initial letter in the word "at" to create new words.

 

Then, every child had a turn to spell a word!