L is for...

We started playgroup with a fun song!  Jenni has an amazing voice so singing is fun!

 Carly did the calendar for us today.

 Robby was the spotlight today.  He was such a cute little baby!  Thanks for sharing Robby.

 The pledge is always fun to do!

 They are all listening so well!

 Lexi held a lamb for singing time.  "Mary had a little lamb."

 Mrs. Jenni had a bag of items that started with "L."   We took turns taking out the items.  Then we would do some sort of activity that had to do with the item they took out of the bag.  We were able to find the letter L in our names.  Everyone had at least one L! 

 Trying to find our l's

 We went on a Leaf hunt outside.  We found so many fun leaves in Mrs. Jenni's yard.  

 More leaf hunting on this cold day.

 One more picture of the leaf hunt.

 We brought the leaves inside so we could smell them.  We learned quickly tasting them was not fun.

But, smelling them was exciting!  One leaf smelled like mints. 

 Time for lemons and limes!! 

They were sour, but yummy!

Licking the limes and making sour faces

Some of us didn't really like the lemons. 

Another funny sour face! 

Next was Legos!!

 We made legos into the letter L.

 Lollipop, lollipop, oh lolly lolly pop!  We made lollipops next.

 Left and right.  How do we know which hand is the left hand?

We learned that our left hands make the letter L with our thumb and pointer finger!  That is one way we can figure out which hand is our left hand.

 Snack time is always fun!  

 We were able to drink some yummy Lemonade and have some snacks

 Our lollipops were done cooking and ready to take home.  

 Playtime is one of our favorite times!  We went outside to play.

 Carmen wanted to play inside and feed the pony.

Everyone else played outside. 

Thanks Mrs. Jenni!!  It was a fun day filled withL i L!

Kindness begins with ME (and with the letter K...!)

 

Today we had a special extra teacher helper with us-- Carly's grandma!

She was very kind and helpful! She helped our day go very smoothly! 

 

 

Somehow the kids ended up segregated into boys and girls during circle time... We told them they could stay that way as long as they listened and all kept their hands to their selves.

And, everyone did AMAZINGLY well today!!!

 

After circle time today, each child got to pick a kite out of our Kangaroo momma's pouch and tell us what color they got.

 

 

 

Then we "flew" our kites around the house while listening to "Lets Go Fly a Kite."

 

 

Miss Danell then introduced us to our theme for the day-- Kindness.

We learned what it means to be kind.

Then we learned a new song about kindness.

 

"I want to be kind to everyone.....

 

...kindness begins with me!"

 

 

Miss Danell told us a story about a big sister learning to be kind to her little sister.

It takes practice and effort to be kind all the time! We talked about different things we can do to be kind to our family and friends.

 

In the story the dad told the girl that she needed to take a daily dose of "Vitamin K"-- KINDESS!

 

Miss Danell gave us each a dose of "Vitamin K" (Hershey's KISSES) to help us remember to be kind.

 

 And then we each got to count out 14 more kisses to add to our bag of "Vitamin K" to take home with us.

 

 

 

 

 

As was mentioned before, everyone was SOO WELL BEHAVED TODAY!

Everyone demonstrated KINDNESS so well today!!

 

Great job!

 

HUUUUGGGGG!!!

 

 



K-K---KANGAROOS!

It sure was fun to be back together with all our preschool friends today!

We had a lot of fun building awesome towers with blocks while we waited for everyone to arrive!

 

During circle time we discovered that EVERYONE was here!!!

It has been a while since we had our tree full of owls!

 

Today, Miss Danell taught us about the letter K using our big mommy Kangaroo.

We learned that Kangaroos have pouches on their tummies to hold their babies!

 

Then we each got to lace up our own K pouches.

 

We tied them around our waists..... 

 

 

...then hopped around like Kangaroos, gathering all the letter K's around the house and stuffing them in our pouches!





 

After all that hopping, we took a little rest while Miss Danell read us a book...

 

...with a very helpful Kangaroo in it.

 

 

 After that, it was time to put our baby Kangaroos down for a nap. Each child took turns picking a Kangaroo out of the momma's pouch. Each Kangaroo had a different picture on it.

 

 

 

And the kids would then find the "bed" that had the correct letter on it to match the word on their Kangaroo! 

 

 

 

It was a great review of some of the letters of the alphabet and the sounds they make!

 

The kids were a little concerned about he lack of color on the Kangaroos, so we then let them get out the crayons and color their Kangaroos!

 

 

 

Next it was time to see just how far a Kangaroo can jump.  Miss Danell had taped a looooooong string to the ground to show us how far an adult Kangaroo can jump in one bounce.

 

Did you know an adult Kangaroo can jump as far as 30 feet???

 

We all tested out our own jumping skills to see how we measured up....

 

 

 

 

 

And, finally on to snack time where we had bananas, goldfish crackers, and some tasty rice Krispie treats!

 

 

It was a fun day of the letter K!