Friendship week

Friendship painting

Students start with a color on their paper and paint while music plays (We did the ABC's).  When the music stops the student takes their paint and brush and moves over to their friends paper and paints while the music plays.  This continues until all members of the group have painted on each other's paper.  The kids absolutely LOVED this. 

Miss Spider Art:

Concepts: 
Cutting, Cutting, Cutting
Following directions
Answering WH questions about being a good friend.

Self Portrait

Concepts:
Fine motor practice/tripod grasp
Drawing a face
Color recognition

All About Me

We worked on these all about me pictures all week long.  The students loved making them! (idea adapted from www.kinderbykim.com)

We focused a lot on name recognition and name writing this week.  For this activity students had to select their name out of a group of names (name recognition) glue the strips on the cloud (glue stick skills) and then state the letters in their name and write their name (with help as needed).  The rainbow names added such a fun touch hanging from the ceiling. 

Texture names.  We talked about how some letters are made of straight lines and some are made of curves.  Students put sticks on all the straight lines and then selected glitter or pipe cleaners (also used for some straight lines if requested)  for the curved part of the letters in their name.  They love looking up at these names and trying to find their name and their friends name. 

All About Me Banner

I am getting ready for my preschool open house.  I thought this would be cute to send home or possibly do as a center in class to display for the first month of school.

Here is a cute All about Me Banner I downloaded for free from www.teachersnotebook.com

http://www.teachersnotebook.com/product/lola/all-about-me-pennant-freebie

All About Me

This is a great alternative to tracing bodies during all about me week



Students decorate the head, shirt and pants each at a different center and then put them together at the end. The students LOVED making these.

Week 3: Red, Yellow and Blue

Letter: B
Books: Alpha Tales Bubble Bear
Mouse Paint by: Ellen Stoll Walsh
Rhyme: Humpty Dumpty (We are working on this rhyme all month)


Dressing up during music time. Humpty, The Horse and The Kings Man


For the literacy center we pre made crayons with each students name on it and cut it into a puzzle. The students had to put the puzzle together and then got to practice taping it together. This was their favorite part.

For science we placed white daisies in water. We added red, yellow and blue food coloring and predicted what would happen.

Here is the flowers the next day when they had started to change colors.

We made an "All about our Class" book. Each child completed this page with the help from a teacher in small groups. We took a picture of them wearing their crayon crown and added it in the corner. I am going to laminate this and make it a book to put in our class library.

At the math center we sorted and counted color bears.

Here is the before of the crayon crown.

Here is the after of the crayon crown.

I gave each student a paper with their name written on it in either red, yellow or blue. At the writing center they could choose from red, yellow or blue markers to write and decorate their name.

Week 2: All About ME

Letter: A
Books: Alpah Tales The Adventures of Abby Alligator
I Love You Stinky Face by: Lisa McCourt

We traced our bodies, decorated the clothes and made paper plate faces!


The students asked their friends what color their eyes were and picked the hair color they wanted.
We also traced their hands and added them to the bodies

Here are the paper plate faces. In the past I have used giant google eyes which look GREAT!!! I was just out this year.

We measured how tall each student was using real apples and then the students helped the teachers make this comic strip bubble to put over their head. They loved measuring themselves with apples. I think we will do pumpkins next month.