Hearts and Presidents

 

Last week we had fun hearing stories about Valentine's Day, friends, and friendship.  We ended the week with our Valentine's Day Party.  Thanks to all of the parents who donated items to help make our party a success!  The kids worked on making their Valentine Bags on Tuesday and Wednesday.  We talked about how they were like mail boxes and how we would be like the mailman on Thursday and deliver our letters to our friends.  It was great to see how excited the kids were Thursday morning while they were passing out their valentines!

After circle time on Thursday we started our party.  We passed out flashing heart necklaces and then everyone frosted and decorated their cookies. We also had delicious kettle corn, and either strawberry milk or pink lemonade to drink...yum!  We played a game called "Doggie, Doggie, Where's Your Heart?".  If you give your child a cut out heart at home I bet s/he could teach you how to play the game!  We also had fun learning the song "Pop, Goes the Weasel".  Then we played the game Weasel, Weasel, Monkey!  (like duck, duck goose!).  We pulled  out our class parachute and put hearts with the kids names on the chute, then we lifted the parachute up and down and the hearts went everywhere!!  The kids had to find the heart with their name on it and bring it back to the parachute.  They wanted to do this over and over and over again!!  Finally it was time to go home with our valentine bags and open them.  I hope all of you had a great Valentine's Day!

We Talked about Presidents and our country on Tuesday.  We looked at a map of the United States and talked about how the president leads the country.  We discussed how the bald eagle is a symbol for our country.  Then we heard the book called Presidents Day. During activity time we made bald eagle handprints at the art table.

We had fun playing with some new wooden blocks.  It was fun to find out which blocks stacked and which blocks rolled!

We heard some Pete the Cat books on Thursday and worked on a Pete the Cat floor puzzle during activity time! 

The kids are still having fun playing in our "snow" tub!

We've been using our stacking blocks to create an alphabet tower.   After it's built the kids have fun pointing to the letters and singing their A,B,C'S.

Here are the links to the video's for the Pete the Cat books we read.