PM Snowmen

After reading All You Need for a Snowman by Alice Schertle (illustrated by Barbara Levallee) and Snowballs by Lois Ehlert, PM preschoolers decorated their own snowmen. 

Then we danced to The Snowman Song, complete with a few melting interludes.

AM PreK Photos

Here are the AM preschoolers coloring the animals from Bark, George!, gluing trash onto garbage trucks after reading I Stink!, and dancing like robots after reading Boy and Bot.

 

Getting Ready for Halloween with PM PreK

It's that time of year! Time for lots of fun readalouds, like Pumpkin Eye by Denise Fleming and Ten Orange Pumpkins by Stephen Savage. We watched this video while the kids "decorated" jack o'lanterns (see photos below). 

During our next class meeting, we read The Dark by Lemony Snicket and Creepy Carrots by Aaron Reynolds, We watched the Silly Symphony Skeleton Dance while the students made their own creepy carrots.

Grr! with AM PreK

Grrrrrr! We read about tigers in PreK. First, a nonfiction book with lots of facts. Next, two fiction books: a rhyming one called Oh, No! by Candace Fleming and It's a Tiger! by David LaRochelle, which necessitate lots of screaming when we found the tiger on each page spread. Finally, the kids made their own roaring tiger hand puppets.

JUMP! with PreK and DLP

I never knew there were so many books out there about jumping and frogs until I started working on this lesson ... In PreK and DLP, we read the following:

Then we created jumping frogs; I got the idea and template from this blog.

 

Finally, we danced the Croaky Pokey, courtesy of Ethan Long.

 I may or may not have been dizzy at the end.