Last day of outer space-mtg

Wow, I can't believe that today was the last day of March and the outer space unit.  That went by so fast.

Today, we talked more about space and what we need to go into space-a rocket. We made rockets and then flew them around the room.

We also talked about the solar system and how many stars are in it.

We then made fun galaxy goo.

 Add glue

food coloring-we choose blue

 Add glitter for stars

 slowly add liquid starch-I got too much and dumped some out. Mix and have fun.

 We then played a game called Trip to the Moon to help us learn (or remember) some colors and shapes.

We reviewed the things that we have learned this month!

 Each child took home a card to cut apart (oh, those cutting skills are tricky but important). The cards are to use at home. These are the things we learned this month...Letters R,S,Z number 7,17, shape-star and the color yellow.

Our older class put together a Bilingual book to help us learn a little Spanish and also helps review what we have learned during the month.

We then had fun using the letters of the month to spell words. The children choose a small card (on the top row) and made the word (on the big card) by finding the letter that was missing. We then sounded the words out together.

We are excited for next months theme- Ocean Commotion!

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More planets/MGT

We have been busy learning about all of the planets in our solar system.
One of the fun things we learned was about the planet Mercury.  We learned that it is very HOT in the day time and Very COLD in the night.
We experienced the change by putting our hands in very warm water and then in a bowl of ice.

The children all agreed that Mercury wouldn't be a fun planet to live on.

Then we decided to see what would happen to the ice if we put it in the water...

To the children's amazement, the ice melted and the warm water became cold.

Isn't science fun?

We painted Venus-the hot side and the cold side. Glued them together and what a fun planet puppet.

On another day we created U.F.O's  

The instructions said to paint paper plates silver....the only silver paint I have isn't kid friendly. I could have had them use grey paint, but that isn't shiny.  So, I came up with another plan...tin foil!
Super shiny and very easy to use.

 The children used makers to color the top of the UFO and then we glued them together.
It was fun watching them glue on big and tiny jewels to embellish their project.  What a great fine motor activity.

 Her are some of the finished UFO's.

Some of the kids decided to see if they would fly-they didn't fly very well.

To help children with pre-reading and pre-math skills we played a memory game with planet cards in class.

The best part was that each student got to take hoe their own set to play at home.

We also used planets to create a pattern. This is a great pre reading skill.  If you look, there are patterns all around us.

One of the great things that Mother Goose Time includes with their curriculum, is little journals for each child.  

In the journals, you will find the letters, numbers, color, &shape of the month.

We take time to practice writing, drawing, and coloring skills in these journals.

Sometimes we don't finish everything in the journal before the month end, but the children gladly take them home to finish them up.

Some of the younger children are having a hard time grasping the art of tracing. So, learning to spell their names is difficult.

I came up with a fun way for them to learn the letters of their name in order and to be able to recognize their own name.

I took the name strips that are provided by mother goose time each month and some of our special writing paper, placed the child'd name on both. I then cut up the name on our special writing paper.

The child can then match the letters on their name tags and learn to spell their name.

Each child took this home in a plastic ziplock bag to practice at home.

We have learned 3 letters, 2 numbers, one color & three sight words this month.

The month isn't over yet, and we are so excited to learn even more.

MTG Book Give away

Mother Goose is a great company. 

So great that they love to help your child learn.  Right now they are doing a children's book give away, right here on my blog.

The giveaway starts Today and goes until Friday March 27th.

Go to the very bottom of the page for other ways to enter...the more points, the better chance you have to win.  You can visit some sites once a day...so come back tomorrow.

Here are a few of the books that are in the give away that my preschoolers love. And I do too.

There's a cow in my house

This is a funny book about a cow that just invite's himself right into a child's house.

The child ask's the question,"What should I do?"

The cow just wants to stay and play.

The book talks about what kind of things the cow does in the child's house for the rest of the day.

And how the cow finally leaves at the end of the day.

The kids really love this book because it is also a song that you can sing right along with the book.

This book is great for getting children involved in what is happening and what will come next.

Timber!

This is my daughter's all time favorite book. The preschool children also love it. It has been read and reread so many times that it falling apart.

This is a great book with very few words. The words that are in it, repeat many times.

The pictures in this book are very important to the story line. It starts out showing lots of trees, then as the book progresses, there are fewer and fewer trees until there is only one.

One tree but a nice log cabin built from all of the trees.

This book is also put to music and it is fun to sing along with it as you turn the pages.

Beatririz, Bananas and the great big hat

This book is all about problem solving. It is fun with bright colorful pictures.

Children get involved by trying to come up with ways to solve the problems in the book and it gets them excited to see what happens next.

What would you do if you liked to play in the tall grass but your parents can't see you?

Beatriz solves it by making herself a tall hat.

What would you do if monkey's take the hats you were going to sell at market?

Beatriz tries many different ways that fail. But she doesn't quit until she finds one that works.

Get your child involved by asking what they would do to solve the problem. Do they think it would work? Let's see what Beatriz does...

The other books in the give away are..

Hello Bird

Does a Bear wear a hat in winter?

There are bugs

Nursery Rhymes

My friend Pearl

Chimidyue

Baby animals learn to play

Waiter! Waiter!

My dad the Tuk Tuk driver

Jurassic Jam

Up in space

Ocean animals A-Z

How to earn points for the giveaway... Click on entry form and go from there.

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This book give away is sponsored by Mother Goose Time (not myself)  MGT is responsible for fulfilling the giveaway,  it's for US and CA, and you must be 18+ to enter, void where prohibited by law.

St. Patrick's Day & Earth

It was so fun having St. Patrick's Day fall on a preschool day.
To celebrate we talked about St. Patricks Day-the wearing of green, leprechauns, rainbows & pot of gold.

The children went on a gold hunt to fill the leprechauns pot because it was empty. We counted how many they found.

We then got out our leprechaun money to see how many we could fit in each container. The children all took turns guessing and then we filled the containers to see if anyone was right.
This was a great counting activity and also volume, lets not forget small, medium and large. Fun math.

Today we also learned about the 3rd planet from the sun-earth. We pretended to be aliens from Jupiter  going on a trip to planet earth. 

We made alien headbands. Of course they had to be green for St. Patrick's day.

 We danced to blast off music and pretended to take off...heading to earth .

We discussed what kind of things we might find on earth, plants, animals, humans and the weather. 

It was fun to learn about Earth as though we didn't know anything about it.  

The letter of the week is the letter"Rr"

To help the children learn the letter we played a game called "Rabbit holes". To play the game I placed a picture of a rabbit on onesie of the room and the letter R at the other side, with rabbit holes in-between .

The children take turns rolling a dice to see how many times they get to jump like a rabbit.  When they land by a rabbit whole the say."R says rrrrrrrr" and then write the letter R on the hole(a brown piece of paper). I help those that need it.

It was great fun. We played it twice.

The 5 years olds painted rainbows and then added salt and a little bit of water to it to see the colors mix together. Some of the boys thought salt tasted yummy and ate more than went on their paper.

We had a little extra time and so they played the moon game-a new way.

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