Wednesday, August 31, 2011

SMELL 5 SENSES

Smelling jars



















peanuts ,oranges and grapes their nose smalls









I Keep THe smelling jars out all morning .They enjoy guessing and using them .I used spices , pine scent ,fruit and candy for my scents .

Tuesday, August 30, 2011

5 Senses Sight

I introduced the 5 senses today . We worked on sight. We made kaleidoscopes.













we read Brown Bear

















Eye Spy with binoculars

Also made some
5 sense matching each sense .I put this in sheet protector and let the children use high lighters or
any marker . Now we can use over again and again.










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Friday, August 26, 2011

Birthday Party







So when real cookies where baking we made cake and cupcakes out of play dough .























We love Birthdays here . We had 4 this month and three his week. They love simon says and limbo are the favorite birthday games .

Thursday, August 25, 2011

magnet wands































We been using magnet wands all week . I thought it would be fun for all to make and take to day .

Then we played a game .I had a magnet frame i put on the dish washer any magnet surface would work . goal is to get magnet to stick in frame

Wednesday, August 24, 2011

magnet painting





















we used nails and paper clips









wish you could see that action the camera cannt capture . its like magic .

magnets

magnets





maze

Monday, August 22, 2011

Magnets



under the magnets over the magnets


























What do magnets do ? What will the magnets pick up or stick to ?











Wednesday, August 17, 2011

Sorting by Numbers













so how do you sort? I could of made another sorting counting mat but i took Egg carton and used them so

1-12. you see we started with bear counter but they where to big so we went to our colorful buttons.

Tuesday, August 16, 2011

Sorting Colors and Shapes











These shapes strips i bought last year when we did a unit on shapes . so worked prefect today also . Then i made color maps for sorting color buttons .













So we have sorted by size yesterday , today by color and shapes and tomorrow will be by numbers . We also have talked about sorting categorizing . Like your classrooms are set up . What belongs where and what does not .






Monday, August 15, 2011

Sorting































Sorting is great for beginning math , counting ,categorizing ,learning numbers , shapes and colors . Preschoolers naturally sort .

We read My first Look At sorting By Random House .


We looked around the room and i asked do they see anything sorted? Color crayons by color , cars by category , books by size and category. Many items around the class room ?

Today we sorted by Big and Small

Friday, August 12, 2011

Baseball softball





















First i show them the laces on the balls . Then i had white circle cut out . We added holes and they laced up there base balls !
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Ball Roll













First i made a ramp( i went to the garage to get cardboard and seen the sled right there and thought prefect ! I would also use my slide if i would of thought of it.First they predict which ball would be faster . Winner is the softball . The softball won more then any other ball.

They actual really love the races . Plus it was interest to see how they predict small ball or big balls to win.