Favorite Friends

This week, school was at another person's house but Addie and I still had fun working on favorites, friends and the letter F. 

Addie and I looked for things that started with the /f/ sound. We found fish, frog, fan and flashlight. 

This is Addie's book of favorites. It is personalized with Addie's favorite color, food, toys and other things like that. 

For this activity I had printed pictures from the computer then I cut them into strips made guidelines and it was her job to cut and then glue. 

We also worked on our numbers. If you type in childcareland.com  there are many great resources on that site. This is one of the books we made:

One other activity was an I Spy worksheet. Addie used small little picture cards and then located each picture on the worksheet. When she found it she colored in with a white board crayon. 

 You can print this for free at JustSomethingIMade.com. 

First week of preschool

Last we Addie and I has our first week of preschool. We are doing a joy school of sorts with three other little girls. The main focus was to get the girls used to a schedule and structures activities instead of just playtime. For our structures activities we read If You Give a Mouse a Cookie and then made cookies:

Our song we learned was who stole the cookie from the cookie jar. The focus was on name recognition. 

For our second day at preschool we read the same story and they each had a turn to put our vocabulary words on the word wall. 

We did however learn a new song, Dr Jeans katalina Madalina. The girls each made a heart of gold for our craft. 

 We used the song pieces to help us sing the song and make Katalina over and over again. 

We also developed two rituals for our preschool. One is a song and the other is a way of greeting or goodbye. The song we sing for our signal that the preschool day has begun, but I started using it for every transition. The greeting is simple and mainly for Addie's benefit but she was to greet each of her friends as the arrived with a handshake, highfive, hug or a smile.