November Preschool

I am so far behind, let's see if I can catch up in 2 posts!!

In November, we talked about transportation and the letter G (for "go"... I was saving "T" for Thanksgiving!)
We read this cute rebus story.  And one certain little student, who loves trains, got more and more excited every time we repeated the rhyme.  It was adorable watching his little face light up more every time we repeated it!!

 Other things that start with G - grapes, goat, goose, groundhog

 We read lots of transportation books- including several pages of a Richard Scarry book- all kinds of boats, trucks, cars, planes.  I love Richard Scarry!!

 We played transportation memory

 We did patterns in math with lacing blocks.

 We also talked about the letter T for Thanksgiving.  We reached in our letter bag and found things that start with T.  Can you spot them?

 (T Rex, Tiger, Tractor, Table, Train, Truck, Tree)
We also sang Wheels on the Bus, and pretended to drive different modes of transportation.  Then we pretended to drive a bus and talked about the things we saw. We also sorted cars, trains, planes, boats, and trucks by the number of wheels they had.
 At our Thanksgiving party, we had yummy snacks

 (pumpkin muffin turkey)

 And turkey cake pops, courtesy of one of the moms - I could never bake something that cute!!

 We read some great T books!

 We reached our hand in the letter bag to look for letters that were in TURKEY.  Then we matched the right letters to the word.

 We glued feathers on our foam turkeys

 We practiced reading rhythms.  (This picture should be rotated - x for stomp, dot for clap).

 We learned about the letter O and opposites

 I tried having them draw with their left and and then with their right.  They ended up just wanting to trace their hands.  That works too.

 We played opposite memory.

 We had opposite snacks (soft and chewy, hard and crunchy)

 I introduced calendar time.  I guess I should have been doing this all along.  But we learned a song about the days of the week and the months of the year.

 We read some opposite books.  "The Opposite" was one of the class favorites.

 We practiced one to one correspondence by counting different objects in the egg carton.  I wrote the numbers in the cup to help with number recognition too.  This day we only counted to 7, so I put a sticker on the number 7 so they knew when to stop.

 We learned about seasons and the letter S. Read some great books.

 Put stars on the letter S.

 Read about things that start with S.

We also pretended to be snakes and talked about how snakes move around the ground.  We sorted clothes into what season they would be worn (raincoat, light jacket, scarf, swimsuit, gloves, etc).  We decorated a tree with how it would look during each season.
And that was all of November that I can remember!! Now on to December!