Letter of the week: Jj

Alphabet Art Book

 

Jj is for jumping jaguars

 

Letter of the week songs and Youtube videos

I use these through the week.

My kids love watching these and then we practice printing them on our white board/ projector.

Here are a few other letter J short video clips I like to use.

 

 

 

 

 

Share Day

 

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Thankgiving Feast

Simple, Fun and Educational.

 

Having our own Thanksgiving Feast was something the children have been looking forward to. They get to choose if they want to be a Native American or a Pilgrim.

 

I had them make their own pattern Feather headbands for our party.

We also decorated Native American vest for our party

 Our feast consisted of: Chicken nuggets, rolls, cranberry sauce-jelly, grapes, corn, apple cider, and turkey cookies for dessert.

My little pilgrim

 My cute Native Americans

Happy Thanksgiving from Mrs. Nathalie's Preschool Class.

 

 

My First Thanksgiving Book

This bound spiral Thanksgiving book was a project spread over 2 weeks. Each day we worked on one page for their Thanksgiving book.

Making the Mayflower. Below is a song that my kids love to sing about the Mayflower.

 

My little Pilgrims building homes

 

 

I displayed them on the wall, so my walls weren't bare for our Thanksgiving Feast

 

 One of my kids Thanksgiving book

 

Hope you enjoyed my twist on this Thanksgiving story art book.

Tons of Thanksgiving Ideas

Thanksgiving fun!

Morning Circle

I use this video to introduce the kids to our Thanksgiving theme for the week.

 

Play-dough Turkey's

 

MATH
Counting Feathers  

Turkey body template for our math activity: http://mrskilburnkiddos.files.wordpress.com

I drew lines where I wanted them to put the glue on.

*fine-motor skills activity

All my kids are on different levels, so I modified it to match their needs.

Here are some samples:

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Making patterns

I had them cut their own squares/rectangles and paste them to make a pattern. We also practiced using a tape dispenser to tape their feather on their "Indian head band"

Art
Indian corn

 For the paint I just added a little bit of brown to each of the colors I wanted to use. I used purple, red, beige, and yellow, all with a tint of brown.

We compared and discussed the differences between Indian Corn and the traditional corn on the cob they eat at home. This is also a great FINE MOTOR SKILL ACTIVITY.

More ART...

Making a tissue paper fish for our Thanksgiving book.

 

 

Great short video of the Thanksgiving story, told by Plymouth the Rock. My kids LOOVE IT!

 

Made Plymouth Rock for their Thanksgiving book

Great fine-motor skill activity cutting, gluing and tearing activity
Block Area

Build a home like the Pilgrims did.

Language Arts
 

While prepping for our week about The First Thanksgiving, I came across a pin on pinterest which lead me to http://dbsenk.wordpress.com

She has available lots of FREE cute Thanksgiving clipart and loads of kinder Thanksgiving ideas. 

Science
in progress
I came across this site that has TONS of links of things relating to Thanksgiving. 

Here's the website: http://www.archjrc.com/preschool/thanksgiving.html

 

 

 

Five senses: Taste

What a "Sense"-sational week!
 Learning about our five senses was so much fun. We ended our week exploring our sense of taste. What better, than a science experiment.

 

Science Experiment

 

Found this yummy idea on pinterest.

Hi, I'm Nathalie and I'm a pintrest addict :)

 

Our sorbet flavors ( dairy allergies in my class)

I had them concentrate on their sense of taste, by closing their eyes.

 

I would encourage them by saying, " close your eyes, use your sense of taste. Move your tongue around, is the flavor sweet, sour, bitter?  Focus and help your brain figure out the flavor by using your sense of taste"

I split my kids up into 3 groups. I was lucky and had a parent helper and an aid.

Some flavors they liked, and some they didn't

I would have them guess the flavor and then "drum roll" as I revealed the mystery flavor.

 

ENJOY HAVE A GREAT DAY!

 

 

Five Senses: Smell

Using our sense of smell to understand the world around us

Art

Painting with spices and kool-aid

Today, I used my sense of smell.

beautiful painting from my kids.

Language Arts

We wrote our letter and number of the week, drew and traced in scented markers.

Science experiment

 How our sense of smell communicates with our brain

Materials: cup, foil, scents of your choice. I only did 7.

7 scents : orange, chocolate candy, lemon extract, mint, grape fresh baked cookie, pumpkin spice

He guessed right and wanted to take a look

GUESS THAT SMELL...