Fire Station Tour!

We had a fabulous time taking a tour of the fire station!

The firemen were so nice to show us their awesome trucks and gear!

I think the coolest part, was that right at the end of our tour the firemen got a call and we got to watch them leave in their truck with the lights and sirens on!! What a great way to end the tour !

Our cute little fire fighters !

F is for Fall and Fireman

We discussed two different topics today. Since monday was the first day of fall, we talked about the changing season!

We glued some pretty leaves to a letter F !

We practiced recognizing the letter F.

Thursday we will be going to the fire station to take a tour. So we introduced firemen and fire safety.

We did some interesting experiments with fire ! We learned what kinds of things will put out a fire !

We made a fun card for the firemen !

E is for Egg

We talked about eggs today! 

We started by playing pass the egg. The kids learned what types of animals come from an egg !

Craft time: we glued tissue paper waded up onto baby chicks :)

Sewing !

Sensory bin: Exploring different animals that come from eggs !

 Matching up our letters with plastic eggs !

 Building the letter E out of marshmallows and toothpicks !

E is for Emotions !

To introduce the kids to the letter E, we talked about emotions !

The kids had fun building faces !

Annslie got creative with the snack and brought Angry Birds crackers ! So much fun !

We looked at sad and happy pictures from magazines and sorted them accordingly.

For break time, we played dress up !

The kids got silly with the play dough ! They loved making mustaches !

Letters A to D and numbers 1-3 REVIEW

We started the day today building our names with Scrabble letters !

We reviewed 1, 2, & 3 after we read the book, "Pete the Cat and His Four Groovy Buttons" which was a hit with the kids !

We glued "tiny buttons" to the numbers.

We also continued our review of A through D with some fun hands on activities, like matching upper and lower case letters with easter eggs.

Writing in salt.

Fishing for letters.

And of course the kids' favorite activity, coloring !

Letters A to D Review, Shapes, and Colors

These kiddos have sure been working hard over the past month learning a letter each week. This week we're reviewing letters A through D as well as talking more about shapes, colors, and numbers.

We reviewed our letters by playing this fun game where I said a letter and the kids took turns shooting it down with a squirt gun! 

Mason and Annslie loved hunting for the letters to match up with our alphabet mat.

Building letters out of big legos.

We read the book "The Artist Who Painted the Blue Horse" and we discussed our favorite colors.

We then made shape collages in our favorite color. Mason's favorite color was "all the colors of the rainbow." :)

 

We stamped shapes with lots of different colors!

What hard workers these kiddos are!