Snow Day!

The surprise was well received. There are some very wet very happy children in this class. Pictures coming this evening.

Field Trip Pictures

I did not take any video footage, so you don't get to hear the horn over and over and over and over. Just imagine 30 preschool-1st Graders being told they can touch the horn...
I think this expression adequately demonstrates the level of excitement we experienced.
Since everyone got to sit in the loader, I have 13 pictures that all look very much the same, so I can email you a copy of your child if you like, but I didn't want to bother uploading 13 very similar pictures.

While we were waiting, we watched the action: big wheels allow the tractors (*I'm sure one or two of my students could tell me it's actual name, but since they're not here to help me now, we're just going to call it a tractor) to drive kind of crooked.
We also got to see a dead tree being dug up.

We heard a VERY loud horn
From this truck. It made us laugh, scream, and cover our ears.

My favorite question from sharing time today

Student 1: "Do you know what company made your toy?"
Student 2: "Santa?"

Report cards

Child pulls report card envelope out of cubby and asks, "Miss Vis, is this what shows how hard we work?"
Yes. It is. I'm glad we understand the purpose of assessment: to encourage and guide to further growth.

Hark!

Just for fun, something I heard on the radio: Hark! The Herald "Preschoolers" Sing.
Enjoy!

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I have a really cute idea. I hope it works!

Jingle Bells

"HEY!"

Pictures from Last Week

Here are some of the centers we did last week:
It was nice to have a Dad helping out to monitor the outdoor sneezing art center. The children enjoyed fake sneezing as they sprayed their paper; I enjoyed having the food coloring outside.

Inside we made Christmas ornaments.

Some children made more later. Our tables and hands were very glittery.
This center was a game that involved throwing the squishy worm ball, counting the set of stickers it landed nearest, and comparing that set with others' numbers.

Today we saw...

After recess we all spent a few minutes near the fence watching the action. We'll get to see lots of exciting things this year as the new gym starts to get built.

We watched the backhoe (I only know that's what it is called because a five year old told me, and I have no idea if I spelled it correctly - feel free to correct me!) scoop up debris from Saturday's demolition work day (thanks to the dads who worked so hard!) and dump it into the big truck.

Quote

We were making Christmas chains today. One student got hers to be quite long rather quickly.
Child 1: How do you make it so fast?
Child 2: Because I work and I don't giggle around.