Celebrating Thanksgiving in the Classroom!

Thanksgiving is one of our favorite holidays to celebrate in the classroom! Our five year olds learn about the true meaning of Thanksgiving.  They create Native American costumes to wear and learn poems and songs to present to their parents.  We create place mats, tee-pees, pine cone turkeys, and turkey callers throughout the unit to use on their Thanksgiving Day table.  But most of all we learn what we are truly thankful for...our family, friends, and God!

Writing Board

Dramatic Play

Our Thankful Board



Our Thanksgiving Program



Adorable Cookies brought by one of our sweet moms!



 

Counting to 50 in Excel!

Everyday in our class we count the number of days we have been in school.  This helps us teach the children to count by 1s, 2s, 10s, and 100s.  This week we hit the 50th day of school! In celebration our class dressed in true 50s attire with slick back hair, pink ladies, poodle skirts, and leather jackets.  Milkshakes were served for snack, and our wonderful parents brought in sonic hamburgers for lunch.  We had an official sock hop and made "records" on a real record player for art.  This is always a favorite day in our class!

Dinosaur Romp

This week in class we discovered DINOSAUR bones! Literally! We had 16 paleontologists who found dinosaur bones in our sandbox and in our sensory table.  We made dinosaur eggs (blown up balloons with glue and flour to harden, painted, and of course hatched with a dinosaur inside!), changed our names to dinosaur names, and even created our own favorite dinosaurs! This week made a big IMPRESSION on the kids!