Miss Stacey's Preschool Classroom: Happy Thanksgiving!

I hope that everyone has a wonderful Thanksgiving! We were busy in preschool preparing for it the past week and a half. We made some fun turkey crafts and talked about what we were thankful for. We also studied the letter Tt which worked out perfectly for turkey and Thanksgiving. We have talked about how when a t and h are together, they sound different than the regular t sound. We get lots of practice with that at calendar time (Tuesday & Thursday). For small groups last week, we made some fun coffee filter turkeys, a "Where is Turkey" book, and practiced writing out names again. It is SO exciting to see so much improvement in their names. They are definitely working hard! For "Science Friday" we made duck calls. Some of you may have been lucky enough to hear them try it out at home and others may not have. It was hard!! Even Miss Stacey had a difficult time making the duck sound with the straw. We talked about how it is vibrations that make the duck noise.

The highlights of the short little week we had this week were acting out a squirrel poem that I read and having a little fall party yesterday. I introduced the poem about the "Five Little Squirrels" using felt squirrels on a felt board. After we tried that out, we let the students pretend to be the squirrels. They thought it was pretty funny and loved it! Yesterday (Tuesday), we have a fun little fall party and did three fun small groups. The first group was making a pattern headband. We talk about patterns frequently in preschool so it was their turn to try to make their own on the headbands. Our second group made pumpkin pie in a cup. Each student got to smash a graham cracker in a baggie and pour it in a cup. They then spooned in some pumpkin pie pudding and some cool whip. Our own little pumpkin pies! Most of them gobbled them all up. It was a definite hit! Our last fun group was making the potato turkeys. They sure got a laugh out of me telling them that we were going to turn the potato into a turkey and that they could bring them home. We thought they turned out so cute!

I cannot believe it will be December next week. We have lots fun things planned for the three weeks before winter break. One big thing to mention is that preschool will be having a holiday program on Tuesday, December 17th. It will be a short little program in the gym towards the end of each preschool class session (10:30 am & 2:40 pm). We hope that everyone can join us for that! Another special day that we will have is another pajama and movie day on the last day before winter break (Dec. 20). Lots of fun things ahead!

HAPPY THANKSGIVING!

Miss Stacey