Monday, January 11, 2016

Hoots in October

The Hoots had a wonderful month of October as we were "Batty for School"!

We learned about the letters C-G and celebrated with Cowboy day and Fancy Day.










We learned about numbers 3-7 and had a fun time learning to graph with candy corn!




We talked all about spiders and took a class poll to see who was afraid.  We also painted adorable spiders to hang from our ceiling and even made silly spider hats!










We learned all about personal hygiene and how to stay clean.

We also learned about what foods help keep our bodies healthy. 

We learned all about our families and how each family is special.


We also learned about being helpful at school and home and read three different versions of The Little Red Hen to see who would help her bake her bread.


 We learned all about pumpkins during our pumpkin investigation week.  We learned about their growth, their parts, and we even conducted an experiment to see if pumpkins can float!













We learned all about the color green and made Big Green Monsters.









We also learned all about the color orange and painted silly pumpkins for our PreK B pumpkin patch!
















 We decorated spooky witch hats for the windows.

We completed a guided drawing of bats to hang from our art strips.

Ms. Susan from the Museum of Discovery came and taught us all about walking sticks and iguanas!








We ended the month with our Pumpkin Hunt!
We enjoyed crafts, hunting for pumpkins, and playing games with friends.













We would like to give a special thanks to Mrs.Riley for subbing for me while I was out with the twins!


Monday, October 5, 2015

Signs That Keep Me Safe

Last week we learned all about the letter B!  

We made Bumble Bees for our Alphabet Journal, Bats for our bulletin board for October, and looked at our names to see who had a "B". 

We had our first visit from Father Erik and he read the book How Do Dinosaurs Stay Safe? to kick off our lessons on staying safe at school and at home.

We learned all about what an emergency is and when we should call 9-1-1 for help.

We went on a sign hunt around campus to see all of the traffic signs that keep us safe when we are driving and walking to school.

We even made stop lights that are our shape of the week, rectangles! 

We ended our month of apple studies with a wonderful religion story from Mrs. Straessle about how God made the perfect "Little Red House" that has no doors or windows but has a star inside.  Following the story we made our last apple treat, yummy apple pies!

Speaking of pies, since HSS did such a wonderful job of raising money for the LLS foundation to "whip out childhood cancer" we got to see Jessica's big sister, Kimberly, and Luke Siria's litter sister, Sarah, throw pies in Jessica's dad's face!

We celebrated two birthdays this week, Ella's and Parker's, on the same day!  Happy birthday to these two big 5 year olds!