Friday, December 16, 2011

SANTA EXPRESS TRAIN ACTIVITY BAGS



Our activity bag is a very simple project for you to mainly review with your child the letters and numbers we have covered so far this year. If your child is a Pre-Kindergarten student this is mostly for you to see where your child is at and what letters you need to work on at home as we continue to review at school too.


The sounds the letters make are taught simultaneously so in February we can begin to put the sounds together and begin the reading process.


Directions: Give your child the Santa Train Engine and let them build the train by adding the train cars as they recognize the letters and tell you what the letter sound is. Talk about different words that begin with that letter and emphasize the beginning sound the letter makes in each word. (Refer back to the December newsletter for other ideas and activities you can do with your child to help them remember the letters they are learning.


Don’t forget to review their numbers too by adding them to their Santa Train!!!
Activity Bags and content are to be returned to Teea Time Playschool after Christmas break, but  if you are interested in making your own Santa Express Train check out the link below by Angela Bergman

http://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Santa-Express-Alphabet-and-Number-Train



Thursday, December 15, 2011

SANTA CLAUS IS COMING TO TOWN....




Teea Timers were pleasantly surprised today as they heard the sound of jingling bells in the distant and as their little ears tuned in, the sound became louder and louder until someone’s little eye spied a little ol’ man in a red suit coming into our play yard!!! YES, it was Santa! He was here! At our school!!!



The kids were in awe and so amazed that some of them didn’t even know what to say!!! But each one managed to find their words to let Santa know how hard they were trying to be “NICE”!!!


They each got to share with him what they wanted for Christmas and he blessed them with a candy cane filled with red and green M&M’s before he went on his way!!!

WHAT A SPECIAL MEMORY MADE!!!





OUR STORY LADY

Once a month we have Ms. Carol, our Story Lady come to our school and she reads books to us, does finger plays, felt stories and shows us how much fun reading can be!!! Ms. Carol also has her "pet dog," Scruffers with her and this brings a very fun element of learning with imagination to my students!!!
Having Ms. Carol come and visit is exciting for the kids as special guest are so much fun, and it gives me inspiration as a teacher and a much needed break for 20 minutes to just sit, listen and watch my students laugh, interact and respond in a positive way!!!


Friday, December 9, 2011

MILKILICIOUS MATH!!!

This week Teea Timer's sampled Chocolate, Strawberry and White milk and we recorded the data on our charts and we had a wonderful milkilicious time doing it too!!!
I got all the data sheets and graphs from Teachers Pay Teachers and this made it very simple, and Deanna Jump did an awesome job putting all this adorable curriculum together!!! I am finding out how muchTeachers Pay Teachers makes life so much easier for me!!!

http://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Which-milk-is-your-favorite-Graph-and-Data-Analysis-Recording-Sheets

After tasting and recording our class favorites the students took forms home to do a little "family/friends survey" to see what type of milk they liked the best too! As the students bring their "homework" back, we record the data and we will determine which flavor get the most and least votes!!!

Here is what one of my parents had to say about the assignment: I LOVED the milk school project. It was amazing to see how Nolan wrote the names of everyone he asked about their favorite kind of milk. We wrirte things but to see that list of names was awesome! We were so impressed!!! Thanks for everything you do for him :-)

This project was fun, tasty and simple as we did some "preschool" math and envolved family and friends as well!!!

AND THE WINNER IS.............







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Wednesday, December 7, 2011

Bananagrams Rock At Teea Time!!!

 BANANAGRAM'S...what can I say! I love them! Anytime I want to de-stress I will play the game all by myself (a little banana-solitaire). Love playing the game with my family, but mostly I love BANANAGRAM'S in my preschool!!!



So I put the Bananagram’s on the table at the beginning of class with the student name tags on the table. They were instructed to find their name tag first and then they were ready to go on a “Letter Hunt” and find the letters in their own name. It was fun to watch and as the kids were hunting for a certain letter in their name and “accidently” ran across a different letter, recognizing that it belonged in their name too, it became somewhat of a puzzle being put together and they were thrilled with the end results. The best part was when they began to sound out some of the letters and put other words together too. One of my students exclaimed. “Teacher Kelly I spelled ‘MAT’….Look, look!!!”


Bananagrams will be readily accessible at all times for my Teea Timer’s to “play” with ;)


What a fabulous STOCKING STUFFER!!!







http://www.amazon.com/Bananagrams-BAN001/dp/1932188126/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1323280694&sr=8-1