Look At Me In Pre-K 3!

Mardi Gras Celebration

2012-03-01T19:49:00.000-08:00

We had a great time getting ready for the PreK 4 Mardi Gras parade. We made t-shirts and crowns to wear that day. We wanted to show you some of the pictures from our fun Mardi Gras celebration!

Valentine's Day in Pre-K 3

2012-02-26T19:04:00.000-08:00

Valentine's Day was extra special in Pre-K 3. To start the morning off, we performed some valentine songs for the whole school at our morning meeting service. Everyone did a great job! It was off to play on the playground, graph candy hearts, and eat a special valentine snack. From there, we passed out our valentines, took a couple of great group pictures outside, went to computer, library, and then lunch. After rest time we enjoyed having our 5th grade big buddies come read a couple of books to us. We shared valentines with them and then it was time to go home. What a great day! :) Please come along to see all of the fun we had!

Q is for Quilts!

2012-02-12T19:25:00.000-08:00

Here are some pictures from our quilt week! We had fun in Pre-K 3, watercoloring our own quilts, designing quilts with fabric squares, and reading lots of books while laying on the quilts that were brought in from home. We had several special quilts that were made with love from grandmothers, aunts, and good friends. We read many books about quilts and learned that they can be passed down from one generation to another. We also had fun looking at the quilts and seeing the many different patterns and shapes they made.
During the week the students each made a square for our class quilt that will be raffled off in April. It is sure to be precious once it all gets sewn together! More information will be coming home soon about that, because you will surely want a chance to win! :)

A Style Show!

2012-02-06T19:51:00.000-08:00

During our clothes unit we learned how to sew. Everyone got a burlap square, some rainbow yarn, a plastic needle, and a couple of big buttons. This was a learning process, but we eventually got the hang of it!

Here is our clothes collection from home! It was so much fun to dress up in our outfits. We even practiced hanging up our clothes on hangers. (I hope they are still practicing this at home with their clothes!!) :)

We measured a giant "Daddy" shoe and a little baby shoe. The big shoe was 12 unifix cubes longer than the baby shoe!

It was great to see the children helping eachother dress. Boyd worked on Burke's buttons for 10 minutes, until they were all fastened! Great job Boyd!!

Deciding what to wear for the fashion show.....

We ended our clothes unit with a fashion show! The children picked a favorite outfit to wear from our class clothes collection. Some kids picked the clothes they brought from home and others chose someone else's outfit. We set up a runway and spotlight in Mrs. Dore's room and one by one, the children walked the runway to present their outfit. It was lots of fun!

Dressing Up in January!

2012-01-23T18:56:00.000-08:00

We have gotten off to a great start in January! It's been a fun month with a lot of activity. We have celebrated two birthdays. Happy birthday to Marshall and Caroline!

Our new Creative Curriculum unit has been "clothing." We have been learning about different types of clothes and why we wear them. In cold weather you have to bundle up to stay warm.....in warm weather you have to dress lightly to stay cool. Some people have to wear a uniform when they work and others don't. The children have had fun dressing up in our clothes collection from home. It has been a lot of fun!

We have also continued to work on our fine motor skills to strengthen our pre-writing hand muscles. We have enjoyed cutting scrap paper in our sensory table, learning how to weave, playing with buttons in play dough, and discovering our touch sense on a sticky table top with manipulatives.

Come check out all of the fun. . . . . .

Christmas Fun!

2012-01-02T19:56:00.000-08:00

We had a merry little Christmas in Pre-K 3! It was a busy month of crafts, ornaments, making gifts, our book fair, singing, partying, and lots of fun. Right before we got out for Christmas break we had a special school wide chapel service and birthday cake for Jesus. Then back in the classroom, we had a very special visitor....(thanks to Burke's daddy!) We hope you enjoy some of the Pre-K 3 Christmas memories we made! :)

One day in December we each had to leave a shoe out in the hallway...and we weren't sure why...

We were surprised to find out that while we were in our classroom, St. Nicholas came and put a candy cane in each of our shoes!

We had fun counting stickers....

making stockings.....

working the nativity puzzle....

reading books....

making Rudolfs...

making jingle bell pasta necklaces....

decorating cookies....

playing pin the nose on Rudolf....

following the rules to earn stickers on our stockings...

and celebrating our 4 birthday boys!!

Marshall, Burke, Jackson, and Boyd

Last, but not least.... a visit from Santa!!!

Thanks Santa, we've all been very good this year! :)

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year in 2012!!

Run, Run As Fast As You Can....

2011-12-04T18:59:00.000-08:00

You can't catch me, I'm the gingerbread man! It was a lot of fun reading different versions of The Gingerbread Man story last week. We also got to hear the story of The Gingerbread Girl, who was the gingerbread boy's sister. Even though her brother wasn't so lucky, she out-smarted the fox and tied him up with a piece of licorice from her hair! We thought it was so funny that she said "Run, run with a leap and a twirl, you can't catch me, I'm the gingerbread girl!"

We decorated gingerbread men cookies on Friday and after we read our book, our gingerbread men cookies had run away! We went on a hunt around the school, and finally found them back in our room, safe and sound, with our gingerbread house! And boy, were they good to eat! :)

Mrs. Krista loved the birthday cards we made her and her birthday cookie cake!

Playing in our "gingerbread" playhouse!

Decorating gingerbread men cookies!

Listening to The Gingerbread Girl story with Mrs. Dore's friends.

Going on our hunt around the school.....

There they were, back in our room!

We want to thank Tiana's mom for coming to the class last Friday and reading us a story on her Ipad!

If you weren't able to come to Trinity School Sunday this morning, we'd love for you to stop by our book fair this week in the school library. There are many great books and gifts for you to check out , just in time for Christmas!!

We Are Thankful For Grandparents!

2011-11-28T18:53:00.000-08:00

What a wonderful morning we had with our grandparents and grand-friends on Grandparents's Day 2011! The children were so excited to share our classroom with their families. They enjoyed singing songs, sharing art projects, and telling them a little bit about our day here in Pre-K 3 at Trinity. These pictures really capture the joy that these little ones felt to have their grandparents and grand-friends spend the morning with them! Thank you for coming to our special day!

November News

2011-11-16T21:46:00.000-08:00

We have been very busy over the last month in Pre-K 3! Fall is moving along quickly and there has been a lot going on. After our Halloween fun, we started a Creative Curriculum unit on boxes. We collected many boxes, big and small, and the children loved exploring them. Food boxes were brought in from home, for our grocery store center in drama. The students enjoyed playing cashier with their friends. Bigger boxes were in our block center for the students to play with. They loved climbing into them, stacking them, and seeing what could fit inside. At circle time each day, we would guess what was inside the mystery box. The children had to ask "yes" and "no" questions to try and get clues to figure out what was inside. This was tricky at first, but they soon learned the types of questions that would help narrow down the guesses! It was a lot of fun! We've also been learning about the first Thanksgiving and how the pilgrims and Indians worked together and became friends. It's been fun playing in the teepee and Mayflower! Come along and see what we've been up to......

Exploring with wood pieces to form shapes and letters

Mrs. McRae's daughter, Annie, got to come visit us on her fall break! She loved getting to finally meet all of our friends!

Forester said, "Look Mrs. McRae....that's how old I am!"

Spirit Day! Geaux Tigers!!!

Look who Marshall dressed up as for Halloween?? Our good friend Curious George!!

Guessing what's in the mystery box.....

Mrs. Jones found a little friend for our mystery box! This little guy wanted to get out and meet Mr. Potato Head!

We can't wait to see our grandparents and grand-friends on Friday
for Grandparents' Day! We hope you have a Happy Thanksgiving!

October Fun!

2011-10-16T21:12:00.000-07:00

October has been full of fun in Pre-K! Come see what we've been up to.......

We started off the month with our birthday girl, Lily, turning 4! Happy Birthday Lily!

Jackson enjoys playing with moon dough!

Sarah, Forester, Jackson, and Boyd enjoy playing a matching game on the computer.

Burke has fun role playing "5 Little Monkeys" on the felt board.

Here we geaux tigers, here we geaux! In honor of our undefeated LSU tigers, we set our drama center up to be a tailgating spot! Bowen and the girls had fun cheering on the tigers!!!

October also brought the Blessing of the Animals to Trinity! We had such a fun afternoon.
Allison's grandparents came with a picture of "Squirt" to be blessed.

Caroline was so excited to have a picture of her and her sister with their doggie.

Burke's mom and dad brought his 2 dogs, a little one and big one!

Lily and Mrs. Jones get their new puppy, Rosie, blessed.

Father Tim blessing Burke's dog.

Sophia paints a fall leaf...

Sarah makes a headband.

Marshall and Burke make a pattern on their fall leaf headband.

Caroline gets a shampoo from Marshall and Bowen!

Sophia sorts fall leaves.

We love to read in Pre-K 3! The whole school participates in silent DEAR reading time at 2:45 each day. (Drop Everything And Read) We always enjoy hearing a book read to us, but some days we like to choose a book and "read" silently on the carpet at the end of the day too.

Forester, aka "Frost"

Boyd

Joshua

Caroline

Allison

Tiana with a book she gave to our class,The Animal Bop Won't Stop!
Thanks Tiana!

2011-10-11T21:05:00.001-07:00

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What a Ball!

2011-09-25T20:47:00.000-07:00

We are having a BALL in Pre-K 3!! Thank you for sending in a ball last week. We have a great collection going and the students are really enjoying our unit. It has been fun sorting our ball collection by size. During center time we got to roll the balls through a tunnel towards a friend and catch the ball when it came back to us. In art, we painted with marbles in a box. Balls are fun to play with, but they can also help us do different things!

It was a special treat to have Mrs. Krista's husband, Kevin Dempsey, come teach us about soccer on Friday! He is one of the LSU ladies' soccer coaches! First we had to listen to instructions....

He wanted us to put the ball on our head...

Stop the ball with our feet,

stop the ball with our chin and our elbow,

our back side,

and our head!

Then we all got to kick the soccer ball into the goal!

Thank you Coach Kevin! We had a ball when you visited us! Please come back soon!!

Discovering Our Senses

2011-09-18T20:44:00.000-07:00

Over the past two weeks we have been discovering our 5 senses. During center time we have painted with lemon scented paint, made and explored texture clippies, finger painted, played with sensory bags, guessed what's inside Mrs. McRae's feely bag, listened to stories on the Ipad, and played with animal sound puzzles. There has been a lot going on in Pre-K 3! It's been so much fun exploring our senses. We hope you enjoy our pictures!!

We loved listening to Marshall read his Tangled book! Way to go Marshall!

Our birthday girl, Allison!

On Friday for snack we popped popcorn with Mrs. Dore's class and used all of our senses!

It's "All About Me" in Pre-K 3!

2011-09-11T20:15:00.000-07:00

Welcome to our class blog! I am so excited to get to share pictures and class memories with you through this blog. It will be a way that you can connect with your child and the things we are doing at school! I plan on updating it weekly.

We have had a wonderful start to our new year together. It has been fun to watch as the children have made new friends and become acquainted with our classroom routine. Everyone has done a beautiful job and is working nicely together. There has been a lot of sharing, playing with friends, and taking turns.

Thank you for sending in the family flags! They are all so cute and it has been fun to watch as the children proudly share their work. In art, we made "Look Like Me" paper dolls that are decorating our walls. We have enjoyed reading books about our senses and doing some fun "sensory" projects. Everyone loved getting to play the Ipad animal sound game! It was a big hit! We have also enjoyed painting with lemon scented paint, having a taste test, and using all 5 of our senses to bake chocolate chip cookies. In fact, we are going to continue our 5 senses unit this week and get to have more fun exploring the way we learn through senses.

Here are some pictures from the last couple of weeks! Hope you enjoy!! :)