Letter Q and A SNOW DAY!

Last week we had letter Q day and made some Queen crowns. Although I told the boy they could have King crowns. :) THey loved making these and we decorated them with gems and markers. My little girl loved it so much that she wore it all weekend for her birthday parties. 

We also made Quesadillas for cooking this day. 

Yesterday was such a fun day!! We haven't really had any snow yet this year and finally Monday night it started coming down. My little girl was so excited that she ran to get all her snow gear on that she has been dying to wear each day, and ran out to help dad shovel. As I watched them I knew we had to have a snow day for preschool. I was excited as the kids got to school because they were all telling me how excited they were for the snow and that they were going to go home after and make snowmen. These are some of the fun activities we did. 

We headed outside and filled our buckets with fresh snow. Then came inside and colored the snow with old markers and made snowmen out of them. 

We practiced our numbers by playing snowball bingo with mini marshmallows.

And of course finished our snow day off with some yummy hot chocolate.

New Stuff:

I have had some fun with the DJ Inkers that my step mom gave me. I love all the fun fonts they have and the graphics are adorable.

I am excited about a bunch of new books I got for reading. I also just ordered some leveled readers from scholastic that I will be sending home for reading each night.

Just a reminder that we have Parent/Conferences starting tomorrow. I look forward to seeing some of you and talking about your sweet little ones. :)

Polar Bears

Last week we talked about Polar Bears: I always love showing the kids this website and the video on polar bears. It is a good one without showing them eating seals or anything crazy. Polar Bear video and Pics from National Geographic

We also made these polar bears out of circles. They had fun making them but I have to say that my idea to practice cutting skills made this project a little hectic with 12 kids.

We talked about polar bears and other arctic animals having blubber to help keep them warm. I love doing the crisco experiment with ice water to show how the blubber blocks the cold. The kids always really like this experiment as well. 

We made polar bears out of sliced bananas, rice cakes, vanilla yogurt, olives and oreos for cooking. 

I also wanted to include a recipe that we made the week before that was delicious. We have a little guy in our class that is allergic to eggs. I found a great recipe for oatmeal chocolate chip cookies that don't have any eggs. I will be making these again as a family treat. 

oatmeal chocolate chip cookie recipe

Where did December go?

Wow, did I really miss the whole month of December posting? I am so sorry! Here are some of the fun things we did during the month. 

We read the Fable : The Lion and the Mouse and then made these cute Lions on letter L day. 

We made an advent calendar to count down the days until Christmas. You put on a cotton ball each day until Santa's beard is full. My little girl loved doing this everyday.

We also made a little Christmas treat. Pretzels, melted hershey kiss and m &m's

Letter M day we made our very own mountain. They really enjoyed being creative with these.

I took everyone's picture and then we made Christmas ornaments with them to give their parents as a gift.

We also had our Christmas party: This was a lot of fun. We made Christmas trees out of sugar cones, green frosting and candy for the ornaments.

We also played Christmas bingo and a gift game.

Thank you to everyone who helped with the party. It was a lot of fun! I hope you all had a great Christmas and look forward to seeing all the kids again tomorrow. :)