Halloween Mini Putt

We celebrated my daughter's birthday this month. The background and headstones are my dollar store finds. I put up my photography background and layered two scene setters on top. It made them less transparent. Than I bought three foam headstones. I used a steak knife to cut a semi circle in the bottom. This was our mini putt game. The headstones came with their own supports so they stand up. However, when I do this for our halloween party at preschool I'm going to attach shelf brackets to the back to make them more sturdy. One of the guests posed in front of the background, with creepy headstones. Both purchased at the dollar store.

Halloween Block Centre

This week I read The Old Lady Who Swallowed a Bat. One of the things she swallows is some bones. To enhance the block centre I detached a jointed skeleton into three sections and attached them to three boxes (cereal boxes) The children had fun building him and of course knocking the bones to the ground. They even used it as something to hide behind and pop their head over, as if they were the skeleton.

Thanksgiving

Trying to teach the children about what it means to be thankful. I have a great Blue's Clues Book that teaches it. However its getting a little dated.

Therefore I made some pictures to demonstrate the idea of the things that we may be thankful for.

I did a few more, but if you have some suggestions please feel free to suggest them.

Go Dog Go

My Coworker planned for the theme of Go Dog Go. Since it wasn't my planning week, I took the time to decorate our large bulletin board in the theme of the Book. I figured it would enchance and encourage a colour discussion during lunch or snack. Our snack/lunch tables are in front of this board.

Golden Egg Book

The children painted the egg shaped with water colours one day. Another day they had to draw what animal they thought could be inside the egg.. I fastened the two together with a brass fastener.

My computer has been acting up.. and has been in for repairs. Program Planning continues though if you don't have time to post. So here is some of the things I did for The Golden Egg Book.

Bunny and Egg Book

This is the cover I designed. I stapled 4 sheets of blank paper undeneath and than cut down the middle line. It made 2 books quickly.

The bunny is under the egg...

for the older children they wrote the positional word.

The Golden Egg Book

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Originally uploaded by Patti Preschool

We are focusing on the book The Golden Egg Book. One goal I have is for the children to increase their knowledge about positional words. The children will glue an egg and bunny on each page. We will talk about the bunny being, on, behind, beside, under or in front of the egg.

Green Eggs and Ham

To finish the week we made a green collage on the word green.

Green Cafe

Welcome to our Green Cafe!! Well of course we serve Green Eggs and Ham!

Where did you think Green Eggs came from?

Yellow Paper + Blue Paint = Green Eggs

I was getting craft ready for Monday. The kids wanted to try it out. Our book for this week is Green Eggs and Ham. One of my goals is for the children to recognize, label and identify the colour green. For those that have met that goal I have incooperated a few activities for them to acquire the knowledge that blue and yellow make green. This craft activity is one of those projects.

Green Eggs and Ham

For my next planning week, I have chosen the book Green Eggs and Ham by Dr. Seuss. I found an idea at http://www.brighthub.com/. The children will be able to identify the matching rhymes from the book. I have made up a set of 20 pictures each depicting a rhyming world from the story Green Eggs and Ham. I have made them available to anyone by uploading them to flickr.

20 Rhyming Cards

We are in full Olympic mode in our preschool. One of the staff brought a mini hockey set for the children to enjoy. Our other olympic themed activities have been making the olympic rings, and making our own gold medals. The children had to tell us what they would Gold for... the answers included for singing, hockey, snowboarding, going down the hill really fast and gardening.