OUR FIRST WEEK OF PRESCHOOL

The first week is always a busy week.  We work on getting to know our classmates and what is expected of us at school each day.  Here's a few pictures from our Get Acquainted Day.  As you can see, if there were any tears at drop off, they quickly were wiped away and everyone started having fun.

Once the rain stopped we were FINALLY able to go out on the playground!  It's a big hit with everyone and we love to run and play with all of our new found friends.

We worked on a few of our projects.  We made our calendars by gluing down our dinosaurs, volcano's and monthly blessing.  The best part about our calendars was making the lava flow out of our volcano's!  We also made our monthly place mats that we eat our snack on every day.  We are working on our name recognition by everyone having to find the place mat with their name on it.  This month it also has their picture on it to help them put their face with their names.

With a few rainy days, the playground has been closed so we have had to find some other fun activities to do in the classroom.  The help us develop our muscles in our fingers, we played with the Play-Doh and cookie cutters.  We had a lot of fun rolling it out with our rolling pins and learning how to make is spread out with just our hands.  We also were able to get some of our wiggles out by leaning "The Car Song".  Mrs. Knudsen made up some really funny moves to the words in the song and we all love driving our cars!  One of the rainy days, Mrs. Knudsen made a BIG MESS on the carpet with A LOT of really small bugs.  We decided to help her clean them up using our tweezers, and we didn't even realize how we worked our fine motor skills by helping her!!!

We all love snack time and the yummy treats we get each day.  Some of the snacks not all of us have tasted before, but everyone is always up to try something new!  How awesome is that?  

 Lastly, I think our most favorite activity from our first week was our Pete the Cat books.  We all just laughed and laughed at that silly Pete and his school shoes!