Trinity Preschool Activities for Monday, October 15, 2012

We played outside on the playground today.

Willow Room- MWF class

We read "Ten red apples" by Pat Hutchins

We asked the children if they have ever gone apple picking?

We dipped corks in paint and stamped them onto paper cut in a tree shape.

We did "Way up high in the apple tree", "Little Old Wagon" and "Brown Bear" for music time today.

We played with "muddy pigs". We made a mixture of cornstarch and water and added a little brown paint to make it look like mud. We added plastic pigs and played with them in the mud.

Maple Room- Morning class

We read "I spy with my little eye" by Edward Gibbs

We talked about primary and secondary colors and how you make green, orange and purple out of mixing red yellow and blue. 

For art the children were each given powdered paint in red, yellow and blue with a paint brush and some water.  They then mixed two colors together to create a new color.

are talking about the color purple today.

Oak Room- Pre- k class

We read "Th
We did "The October song", "Scat the cat", Lady Bug colors", "There's a dog in school" and "the Color song."

We played a color guessing game- which color is the rainbow hiding behind? We are talking about the letter C, we read a letter C book, and looked in our alphabet monster box to find letter C items.


Maple Room- Afternoon class:

We read "Harold and the purple crayon" by Crockett Johnson

We painted with purple paint on a paper shaped like a bush. Then we added purple pom poms with glue.

We had watercolors at the easel.

We did "Around the mulberry bush", "Little Jack Horner" and "Colored leaves" for music time.

We e falling leaves and the scarecrow" by Steve Metzger
 
We  painted with bubble wrap today.  We painted the bubble wrap with fall colors and we made a print on paper. We will cut the paper to look like corn and add it to our bulletin board.

We did "Stick to the glue", "Where is the squirrel?", "leaves are falling down", and "Going on a bear hunt" for music today.

We are talking about the letter F.  We also read "Going on a leaf hunt" by Steve Metzger.

Stay & Play:

We read " Chester " by Syd Hoff (about a horse)

We painted with watercolors inside stencil shapes.

W did "Get ready, get set, Let's dance" and "This is the way we do it" an actions song for music time.

We had cars, garages, and raceways out today. 

We had magnetic faces pieces and pumpkin shapes. The children used the pieces to make faces on the pumpkins.