Shapes

We had fun learning about shapes this week.  We read Mouse Shapes, and The Shape of Things. During circle time, we poured a tub of pattern blocks into the middle of our circle and used them to make designs.  Additionally, we used magnetic pattern blocks to create designs on our white board.  At art center we used colorful shapes to create robots!  Circles, squares, triangles, diamonds, hexagons, trapezoids, semi circles and quarter circles are some of the shapes we've talked about this week. We also worked with shape puzzles, magna tiles, play dough with cookie cutter shapes, and blocks.  The kids loved talking about, making and finding shapes!!

Making shapes at play dough center.

Using pattern blocks to create pictures with shapes!

Finn celebrated his 4th birthday this week...

Singing " Happy birthday..."

Finn's birthday treat...with sports rings in the frosting!  Thanks Finn....Yum!!

We were finishing our coin rubbings this week.  A great way to introduce kids to the names of coins and presidents.  They had fun trying to identify the coin!! 

A little too cold to go outside, but we had fun using rhythm instruments and creating a parade inside!!  A new song we've been doing is The Mice Go Marching By....ask your child if they can tell you about it and act it out...they love it!!

Annie was our Maple Leaf this week! She shared her poster with us during circle time on Tuesday and her mom came in and read us 2 of Annie's favorite stories on Wednesday.  We also had donuts with milk or orange juice for snack..delicious!! Thanks Annie for helping make our week so special!