This week our theme was "Wonderful Water".  We had a lot of fun doing little activities with water.  One of their favorites was doing our bubble activity.  Our magic letter this week was the letter Jj along with reviewing all of our letters we've already learned.  We read a book this week "Cordoroy Goes to the beach".  The kids really enjoyed this book.  We read several other books dealing with water.   We also did several nursery rhyme videos where the students dressed up, sang and acted…

We have had a wonderful week learning all about "The Garden", our unit.  We learned our theme song "Plant some seeds as well as sang lots of other songs.  We watched videos on the planting process and how the roots grow from seeds.

We planted radishes, carrots, and onions, in our root viewer and are anxiously waiting for our seeds to sprout roots and grow.  We also received our caterpillars and they have already spun into their cocoons awaiting them to become beautiful butterflies.  …

This week was our second week on our Insects Unit.  We have had a fun time studying all the different insects.  This week we studied, ants, ladybugs, butterflies and fireflies in the night.  We had several art projects where we made ladybugs, butterflies and fireflies.  The students really enjoyed this.  We have worked on rhyming a lot this week as well as reviewing our numbers and letter sounds.  Our magic letter this week was Uu.  We also received our catepillars in this week and are…

Finally more Spring like weather has arrived! Our theme was Backyard Creatures. We talked about the different creatures we might find outside and made a list of all we could think of. For our shared writing activity this week we learned about describing sentences. We look at a picture of an ant and shared sentences describing it. Rhyming was another task we practiced with making some silly rhyming sentences. It was a lot of fun! This activity was difficult at first for the class but once we…

This week we finished our unit on "Oceans".  We learned all about sea turtles, lobster/crab, shellfish, sharks, stingrays & jellyfish.  We have had a fun time with this Unit.  We also got information you tube videos on all as well as fun videos, Finding Nemo and Shark Tales.  We did all kinds of art work, our shark hats, octopus wind sock and finished up on our "Ocean Numbers" book.  Our magic letter this week was "W" and we reviewed our numbers and began learning simple words as well as…

I can't believe it is April! The school year is passing quickly! This week continued our Ocean unit. We discussed,watched videos of ocean creatures in action, and explored the beach, Manta Rays, Shellfish (shellfish aren't really fish), Sharks, and finished the week with a review of all the creatures we have been…

This week our theme was Ocean Animals. We sang our theme's song In the Ocean and also sang Take Me Out to the Ocean. We created a shared writing list of ocean animals and other ocean related words. We read Who Lives in the Sea, and books about Octopus, Sharks, Whales, and Sea Horses. We also had "Octopus Stew" for our snack Wednesday. Only one was reluctant to give it a try. Our letter/sound to the week was Oo and we completed four pages of our Ocean Numbers book. To end our week we…

This week in Pre-K our theme has been all about "OCEANS".  We have learned all about the animals that live in the ocean.  We listed words for our vocabulary and focused on: ocean, whales, dolphins, octopus and a few others.  Our letter this week was the letter /Oo/ and we reviewed our numbers.  We worked on syllables this week and focused on animals names.  We presented at the WE SHINE program on Thursday morning.  Our theme was Numbers.  We also had our Easter Egg Hunt and Ice Cream…

This week we finished our unit on Zoo Animals. We studied the letter Zz this week, it's recognition and sound and reviewed our #10. We discussed lions, tigers, reptiles, birds, and fish. The students made a book titled, Zoo Colors. We reviewed our color words and worked on learning our color sight words.   On Tuesday night we played our Red and White game and it was a huge success.  The students did a fabulous job and are still talking about it.  They are ready to play again.  Thanks…

This week we completed our unit on Zoo Animals. We studied the letter Kk and its sound. We discussed lions, tigers, many different reptiles, birds, and fish. The students also made a book titled, Zoo Colors. We reviewed our color words and "read" our books. Our Red and White basketball game was Tuesday night and the boys and girls who participated could not stop talking about it, they were all so excited to play and can't wait to do it again next year!

This week our unit was on Zoo Animals. We discussed different animals  that we would see at a zoo: Zebras, elephants, giraffes, monkeys, apes and lions.  Our letter/sound  this week was /Kk/ and we reviewed numbers 1 & 2. We worked with beginning sounds in words this week, and worked on sight words from our word families.  The theme's song this week was Baby Grizzly Bear.   We also started practicing for our basketball game on Tuesday and had 2 scrimmages.  The…

This was week one of our Zoo Animals unit. We discussed different animals we might see at a zoo: Zebras, elephants, giraffes, and monkeys and apes.. We worked with beginning sounds in words, rhyming words, and reviewed numerals 1 - 10 by making a book titled Zoo Counting. Our letter/sound this week included Zz and Ee The theme's song this week was Baby Grizzly Bear. The boys and girls loved singing this one and also loved the motions. We also started practicing for our basketball games in…

Another great week in Pre-K.  The boys and girls have been very rowdy this week due to our cold weather, but we survived.  It has been a busy week finishing up our Farm theme and then also learning about "Growing Up".  We introduced our theme song, "Now I'm 4", our letter /Ee/ and Elmo the Elephant song.  The boys and girls really liked this.  We finished our Farm Books, our quilts and made our placemats and hats for Dr. Seuss' birthday.  On Friday the National Honor Society came to our room…

This week our theme was Growing Up. We sang about what we did at different stages of our young lives with our theme's song Now I'm Four. We also created two new lyrics for the song about being five and what we think we can do when we turn six. Our shared writing for the week was writing sentences about what changes we make as we grow. Little Quack was the story we shared this week and each student illustrated his/her favorite part of the story and then myself and Mrs. Rachel helped with…

Wow!!!! What an exciting and fun week we had had.  It's hard to know where to start.  Another great week on the farm.

This has been a short week due to having Monday off and bad weather on Thursday, so we've had to cover a lot of farm animals this week.  We learned all about the cow, the pig, the duck and of course our precious little chicks.  The OSU co-op,  gave us little incubators to use and the hatchery in Heavener gave us eggs.  We have all had such a wonderful time watching our…

Another busy week on the farm!  We had a three day week with our snow days so everything was bunched together. The animals we studied this week were cows, pigs, and chickens. Our local co-op loaned us digital egg incubators. The students really enjoyed seeing the process of the incubator. Unfortunately our eggs hatched on a day we were out for snow. But the boys and girls still got to see the baby chicks when we returned to school. During our study of cows we made ice cream! It was a…

This has such a fun filled week.  We began our new unit "On the Farm".  On Monday we learned all about the farm, got to see and pet some sheep and celebrated our 100 day celebration.  Tuesday and Wednesday we learned all about the farmer, the barn, tools and crops.  On Thursday we celebrated Valentines Day and on Friday we learned all about horses.  We began making our farm book of animals.  We learned all about the letter/sound of /Hh/ and sang our Henrietta Hippo song and dance.  It has…

This was a tremendously busy week, with many special visitors to our class. We celebrated our 100th Day of School on Monday then began our Farming Unit on Tuesday with a visit from some show sheep. The boys and girls enjoyed getting to know the sheep and even petting them! We discussed the many things we may find on a farm; a barn, silo, tractor, etc. We sang and acted out Old MacDonald Had a Farm. We studies the letter Qq and made quilts for our paper beds. Ms. Rachel from Heavener Public…

This week in Pre-K our theme was Pets. We sang B-I-N-G-O as our theme's song. What makes a good/bad pet was our Shared Writing for the week. We discussed our own pets, made sentences about our pets, and counted the words in the sentences. We also played Doggie, Doggie, Where's Your Bone? Our letter/sound of the week was Tt. We read a Clifford magazine and a Let's Find Out magazine this week. The first was about polar bear cubs we watched a short video about them, discussed where they live,…

This week we continued our Forest Animal Unit.  We had a great time making crafts everyday.  We studied Chipmunks,

rabbits, raccoons, frogs and Friday we studied mice and groundhogs in honor of groundhog day tomorrow.  The students had a lot of fun making all the different animal projects.  We did lots of letter and number review.  Yesterday our school had the priviledge of have our State Board of Education here at Howe Schools.  I was very proud at how my Pre-K class acted all day. …