Maple Leaf Preschool: Pete the Cat

This week we focused on the book Pete the Cat and His Four Groovey Buttons. This is a great book as it focuses on the numbers 1-4 as well as subtraction skills and is a pattern book as well! Add the song to it and it gets the kids interacting with the book as we read it together. The kids favorite part of this book is when it says, "Is Pete sad?" and the response is "Goodness, no". To hear the book read go to this youtube link. It is one of my new favorite books!! It might be fun to share the the link below with your kids, they might even read along with it!!

Video for youtube pete the cat and his four groovy buttons

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www.youtube.com/watch?v=pEhdqbQ5N88

Jan 27, 2014 - Uploaded by Grant Temple

This is a full version of the book and song. Story written by Eric Litwin and Illustrated by James ...

Pete the Cat heard we were learning about him and hearing his stories so he came to visit this week too!

We talked about the Letter C and the sound it makes as well as the word Cat and brought in things that started with C for show and tell. As the kids showed or told us about the things they brought with the letter C, Mrs. Gould listed the words on the white board. We had cat, cow, calf, chairs, cards, carrots, as well as Cayden and Charlie on our list. (We talked a little bit about the ch vs. the c sound)

We had fun fingerpainting with blue paint and creating Pete using pipe cleaners for whiskers and shapes for his face. We also talked about the letter P and the sound it makes and made Pete out of the letter P. Then we each said what our favorite color shoe is and Mrs. Gould wrote it on our project for us. We even practiced reading back what we wrote down!

We had music with Mrs. Jenkins this week and sang a song that helped us get to know each other. We went outside and played the game Cat and Mouse and we also played the game Mouse, Mouse, Cat. Maybe your kids can show you how to play the games at home!!

We had a lot of time to explore our own interests too!

We added a tube to our large activity room. The kids have fun putting cars down the ramp. They're learning the if they lift the tube higher the cars go faster and if it is at a lower angle the cars go slower. Introduction to physics and inclined planes preschool style!!