February 27

All four of my preschool friends were here today! Yay! We celebrated Garrett's 4th birthday. He brought cupcakes, teddy grahams, AND string cheese. If you were wondering why your child wasn't hungry for his/her lunch.......now you know!

We counted all the way to 27 on our calendar today.....whew! We always sing the alphabet and find the first letter of our names. Then we play "missing letter". All of the alphabet letters are on the board and each child gets to take one away while the rest of us close our eyes. Then we sing "Oh, what letter is missing? Oh, what letter is missing? Oh, what letter is missing? I wonder what it is?" Sung to the tune of "For He's a Jolly Good Fellow". They love this game.

We have a new "game". We guess/estimate the number of items in a jar and then the helper gets to count the items. Today we had 8 cotton balls in the jar and the birthday boy guessed the exact number!

We talked about the letter "P" and they each made a plate full of "p's"........yes, this is meant to be confused with a plate full of "peas"! They thought this was a great trick!

We talked about circles, triangles, squares and rectangles. Then they used these various shapes to create a shape person. One little friend was not at all interested in doing this.......until I changed the directions and told him that his could be a shape MONSTER.......he was all over that! :)

The kiddos worked on their fine motor skills when they made necklaces from noodles that they had to string onto a length of yarn. This was much more difficult than it looks. After they got the hang of it they were good to go!

We read "The Three Little Pigs" and they loved it! An oldie but a goodie! They wanted me to read it twice. The second time through we ALL used our deepest "wolfy" voices when we threatened to huff and puff and blow the houses down. And of course we all used our best pig voices to say "not by the hair on our chinny-chin-chins"!!!
These kids LOVE to be read to and love to snuggle up close. I miss this with my own kids so reading to your kids on Wednesday mornings is a real treat for me! Olivia reads to me now.......sniff....sniff!

We did some exercising, played with the parachute, built a tunnel for the cars, played "doctor" with one doll and two teddy bears, played pizza delivery guy and beauty salon, and then, before we knew it, it was time to go home! See you next week!