Letter D crafts

We had a fun week learning about the letter D. Here are a few of our crafts that will be coming home today or tomorrow:

Dinosaur

Daisy

Dots on D in a Doghouse. 

We also finished up our five senses bears:

The bear features brown circles of various shapes, a soft cotton ball nose, jingle bell ears, sandpaper paws, googly eyes, and a bit of chewing gum on his mouth. 

Today, as we completed our D week, we celebrated with Doughnuts at snack!

Five senses, visit to the computer lab

This week, we focused on the sense of touch as we continued our study of the five senses. One of the best activities was a "touch test." Mrs. Connie and Mrs. LeeAnne put different textured items into brown paper bags, and we challenged students to reach inside - no peeking! -describe what they felt, and then guess each item.

Our mystery items included sand, cotton balls, peach pits, a pine cone, cold cooked spaghetti, uncooked spaghetti, and honey. 

Earlier this week, we visited the HVCS computer lab! The lab features an interactive Promethean Board which even 3-year-olds can use! Mrs. Connie pulled up a preschool-friendly website, and our kiddos took turns touching the screen when prompted, identifying colors and shapes. 

Beginning in K4, all HVCS students attend a special weekly computer class, so this is a great introduction for our K3's. Based on their reaction, I know we will be returning to the lab as soon as possible -- they loved it!

So much fun, we don't know where to begin!

We've been having so much fun in K3 lately ... I don't even know where to start! Instead, this post may just be a hodgepodge of fun photos.

Last week we presented our "All About Me" posters to the class. The children loved sharing their family members, plus their likes and dislikes, with us.

Letter B masks!

Painting watercolor circles. 

Our boys love to cook in the kitchen!

Mrs. Libby pretended to be a monster, and the kids LOVED it. 

Today, the entire school celebrated "See You At the Pole," a day where Christians gather around flagpoles to pray for the nation. Older students led us in prayers for our national and local government, for our school, our churches, and our families. Mrs. Connie even led everyone in singing My Country 'Tis of Thee and God Bless America! 

We were so proud of how well our K3 students paid attention!

Mr. Chalky Face!

Finally, since we're learning the letter D this week, we've been singing "Five Little Ducks," a reverse counting song. Toward the end of the song, none of the little ducks come back when their mother calls them, and Mrs. Connie and Mrs. LeeAnne always pretend to cry in this part. The kids' expressions are always so funny, so today we remembered to take pictures of their precious faces. 

Tomorrow, we'll share our first trip to the HVCS computer lab, plus a fun activity we did to experience our sense of touch.

Homemade maracas!

Remember last week when we challenged you to guess what we were making? Well, here's the answer:

We made our very own maracas!

We also have a video of us today, using our maracas to shake our sillies out ... let's see if Mrs. LeeAnne can figure out how to upload it! :)

So much fun!

Grandparents' Day

Friday was a very special day at HVCS - it was Grandparents' Day! Our K3 students participated in a musical program with the rest of the school; in our song, we clapped hands and stomped feet for our grandparents, bowed our heads to Jesus, and reminded everyone that He loves us.

After the musical program, we invited our grandparents to visit our classroom. The students loved showing their All About me posters to their grandparents and giving them tours of our room!

 

All about ME!

Parents and grandparents both enjoyed seeing their children's work!

We even had some special gifts to give our grandparents!

We sure do love our grandparents!

Mrs. Connie and Mrs. LeeAnne loved meeting all of the families!

And some of the moms even got in on the fun!

What a special day!

Five senses

This month, our unit of study is the five senses, and many of our activities - academic and play - are centered around this theme. Whether it's a game matching an object to its sense (cat = touch, rose = smell) or a song describing what we see, smell, taste, etc., this unit is reinforced throughout each day.

Today Mrs. Connie got out the musical instruments, and we played "Guess that sound." They closed their eyes as Mrs. Connie brought out each instrument and played it; then she'd hide it behind her back while they tried to guess it. Items included a drum, jingle bells, maracas, cymbals, and a triangle! After each sound was identified, the children were able to spend a short amount of time playing the instruments (Some were shorter than others ... 14 3-year-olds banging cymbals for 30 seconds is a very. long. time.) ;)

Fun with cymbals!

Ringing bells!

Stay tuned to see what we did next! Here's a hint ...

It may look like a simple coloring project, but it's much more! :)

Teddy Bear Picnic

Last week we had so much fun at our first annual Teddy Bear Picnic! We studied the letter B all week, so it was a perfect time to eat bananas and berries with the brown bears we brought from home!

Berries and bananas were perfect for our B-themed day!

Mrs. Connie planned an extra fun activity--hiding various items around the playground. Our students had to find the things that start with the letter B.

How many B items can you find?

 Here are a few more pictures of our beautiful K3 students enjoying the picnic!

We love our kiddos!

What new fun will we have with the letter C this week? Stay tuned ...