Playing is so much fun!

Look at all my friends playing so nicely!


Love this picture!!! My sweet friend Bri!


Camden is checking out the castle


Will and Camden playing with the train


How many friends can play with the garage at once?


Loved watching this!

Awesome day!!

We had an awesome day today in preschool! After my friends left yesterday, our paras got out LOTS of Little People toys....train track, house, castle, garage and more. When my friend came in this morning they were all excited to see these new toys out. We have all worked very hard this year on learning to play with toys, share with our friends and keep playing with toys for longer then just a few seconds. All of that hard work paid off today! My paras and I just got to sit back and watch in amazement as all of our friends played, interacted and had so much fun for LONG periods of time today! I LOVED it!!!! Enjoy some pictures from today!

Thanks to all the families that were able to make it to our family picnic. The weather turned out perfect!!! It was great to see everyone!

Change of Plans

We were originally scheduled to walk over to the High School track on Thursday the 20th, however, we have rescheduled that for Tuesday May 25th. We will be heading over about 8:45am and back by 11:00am and then again about 12:45pm and back by 2:15pm. We will be running, playing in the sand, and on the big mats and having a great time!!! Please be sure to send sun screen that day if you would like your child to wear it. Also you can send a water bottle if you'd like. Please be sure to label both with your child's name.

We are still planning on having our Family Picnic this Thursday May 13th from 5:30pm to 7:30pm at Celebration Park by the play area. We will provide hot dogs and condiments. We ask that each family bring a side dish to share with others as well as table service (plates, napkins, utensils) and drinks for your own family.

I look forward to seeing everyone at this event!

Upcoming events

It is May and that means one thing....busy busy busy time of year!!! The last day of school will be here before we know it! The preschoolers last day will be Thursday May 27th! It has been another great year! I'm so proud of all of the hard work each of my preschoolers has done and all that they have accomplished! We will be having an end of the year family celebration/picnic next week on Thursday May 13th from 5:30pm to 7:30pm at Celebration Park in Gardner. I am sending home a note today with details. We will provide hot dogs and buns. Please bring a side dish to share with others. Please also bring table service (plates, napkins, utensils, cups) and drinks for your own family. Please be sure to RSVP to me either in the daily note book, email or a phone call so I know how many people to expect so we have enough hot dogs! This is a fun event that we will share with the students and families from Miss Sara's room as well! We will be in the shelter house area near the play groud so the kiddos can have a great time! Hope to see you there!

On Thursday May 20th we will be walking over to the high school track in the morning and afternoon to play and have all kinds of fun. We will do this instead of participating in the school field day. The kids will be able to run free around the track and through the football field, play on the large track/field mats and in the long jump sand pits. We will also take wagons, bubbles and chalk to play with. Please be sure to send sun screen that day. You are also welcome to send a water bottle as well.

Please let me know if you have any questions about end of the year events!!

High School Visitors

One more picture from our "trash" game...Erick and Michelle having fun!

Our "trees" have grown up and their branches are swaying in the wind!

Our trees are starting to get bigger! Some of our high school friends are featured here as we teach them our fun game!

Here we are seedlings curled up in a ball getting ready to make a tree!

Nick works hard on his sun catcher as some of his new high school friends help out. Miss Candaces daughters joined us as well today for Take your Child to Work day!

Erick and his high school friend work on a sun catcher!

Camden and Bri work on their sun catchers as their new high school friends are near by!

In the last post I shared about our high school visitors who came on Earth Day. Here are some pictures from that visit. There are some of them helping us make sun catchers and some of everyone playing the "make a tree" game! Thanks GEHS friends for joining us for a little while!

Happy Earth Day

Michelle tossing items in the recycle bin during the "trash" game

Nick is trying to decide if he would rather keep the Dora bandaid box :)

Camden adds tissue paper to his crayon holder

Nick and a friend from Miss Sara's class play the "liter bugs" and are throwing trash around the classroom :)

We have been celebrating Earth Day all week with fun activities! We have played Earth Bingo, made crayon holders out of recycled plastic water bottles decorated with tissue paper and painted an earth with marbles rolling through blue and green paint.

Today we had a special treat when 5 students from the high school Communications program visited our classroom. They were great helpers as we used blue and green colored glue to swirl together in a butter lid. These will be sun catchers when they dry in a few days! Then we showed them our "tree" game we have been playing all week. We got to learn from them about the recycling projects they do every week at the high school and share with them the blue recycle tub we use in our classroom!

Our favorite activities of the week have been making "trees" with our body's and playing the "trash" game. When we made trees, we first started with eating a seed (otherwise known as a skittle). Then we curled up in a ball on the floor as I "watered" my trees. Then we slowly grew until we were standing up and our branches (also known as arms and legs) popped out and we were big trees swaying in the breeze until chopped down. Then of course we repeated this SEVERAL times every day! It was great to see my friends really enjoy this game and ask for it again and again and again and...... :)

When we played the "trash" game we took turns being liter bugs and throwing items from our recycle bin all over the room. Pretty funny to intentionally trash the room....my friends got a kick out of that. Then when the musis started we ran around and gathered up as much stuff as we could and ran it back to the recycle bin! Super fun game that we played several times!!

Friday we will conclude Earth Week by making recycled crayons in a very fun crayon maker. We will reuse our old crayons and melt them down to make swirled new crayons!

Old McDonald Had a Farm

Michelle was not sure about the horse


Camden didn't really want to get any closer


Erick thought it might be cool to poke at his eyeballs


Nick touched the horse about as long as it took to take this picture!


Bri was all about the horse!!!!


Nick is not sure about this jello stuff


Erick was a fan of the silly jello


Michelle's favorite part was the "cloud"


Our blue jello puzzle piece...kind of fell apart


Camden was a big kid and tried the jello!


Rainbow jello! :)

This week we have been talking about farm animals! We got a special treat on Wednesday when one of Miss Sara's friends brought animals from his farm to show us! We got to meet a baby lamb born on Monday, a sheep, a calf and a horse. We got to pet them all! Some of us were a little less interested and others thought it was GREAT!!!!

We also welcomed a new friend to our classroom this week. Our little friend Will started school for the first time on Monday. He is having a great time hanging out and trying to figure out what in the world we are doing in this crazy classroom of ours! All of my other friends have been very nice to him and are excited to have someone new with us! Welcome Will!!!!

For the next few weeks we will be doing lots of Earth Day activities. If you have empty egg cartons, please send those to school, we will need them for some projects!!!

April is Autism Awareness Month. We showed our support last Friday by making blue jello (blue is the color for Autism) and cut it into a puzzle piece. Then we made several other kinds of jello and made "rainbow jello" with whipped cream as our clouds. My friends did a nice job trying this silly snack!

Above are a few pictures from our farm animal adventures as well as our fun snacks! :)

What's the Weather?

This week we are talking about the weather....and since it's spring and we live in Kansas, we tend to have something different to talk about each day! We are very happy that snow has melted, the sun has come out and we have been able to get some fresh air several times a day!

Today we read the book "It Looked Like Spilt Milk" and talked about how clouds can make different shapes in the sky!

Later this week we will be playing games about the sun. We are in need of some flashlights (to be our suns) that we can shine around the room. So, if you have one or two that we could borrow for a few days we would appreciate it. You can put your name on it somewhere and we will be sure to return it by next week.

In the next few weeks we will be moving on to talking about farm animals. Last week we got to attend an assembly with the Southwest Dairy Farmers who brought Ginger, the cow, and showed us where cows lives and how they milk them. We even got to see the farmer milk Ginger for a few minutes! All of my friends did a nice job sitting and watching! We got special cups that show us how much milk we should drink every day. We are keeping those cups at school until the end of the year so we can use them during snack time!

We may be looking in to having some farm animals come visit us. So if any of you know of anyone who has farm animals that like to travel and would be nice to my preschool friends, let me know and maybe we can arrange a time for them to visit. If not, Miss Sara next door, is working on some arrangements as well!