What's Next!

Next week we will be talking about St. Patrick's Day! We will talk about Ireland and some of the Irish culture. We will be talking about potatoes, shamrocks, blarney stone, leprechauns, all things green, Ireland. We will look at the map to see how far away Ireland is, we will do some patterning and counting activities with shamrocks, we will make a blarney stone for luck, we will be playing lots of games with our shamrock letter cards, and so much more! An activity you could do at home is buy some Lucky Charms cereal and sort all the different shapes of cereal and marshmallows, then have a tasty snack with your child!

Things we've been up to!

We have been very busy the past few weeks! Here are some pictures to show you some of our activities!

Riley and Jan Carlos Playing dress up during centers.

Alexceya and Kynnedy playing Dress Up during center time too.

Kera and Zachary working with Legos

We made pancakes during our lesson for If you Give a Pig a Pancake. The children got ot help measure and stir!

They gave pancakes a thumbs up!

On a search for animals in the hallway...

Then we got together to compare our findings! We matched the animals, counted them, patterned with them and sorted them!

Shelvie working with our tweezers and penny game. They had to stack the pennies as high as they could before it fell. This was a great fine motor activitiy!

The Dentist and some soliders came from Fort Stewart to talk to us about healthy teeth! We did a dance and listened to a story

We had a guess reader come from the KIWANIS club, and they gave us all a Dora book to take home.

We were very well behaved!

Our reaction to our Volcano Experiment!

Us Popping the Pig on the Parachute!

Valentines Day Party!

Sorry it has taken me so long to put these pictures up! They had a great time at the party and exchanging cards with each other. Thank you guys so much for the participation!

Chinese New Year

This week was a busy one! We celebrated the Chinese New Year! We also had our 100th day of school! The students got to rotate to four different classes and do 100 themed activities. For the Chinese New Year we made Good Luck Fish, lanterns, fans, flowers, Kites, Chinese Waist Drums and much more. The children tasted three types of Chinese Snacks today, Fortune Cookies, Pocky and La Choy Noodles. We had a lot of fun this week and learned so much about China and their traditions for the New Year.

Jakyla, Meaja, Kohlmin, Riley and Joseph playing in our Chinese Resturant during center time.

Wyatt and Dajon exploring at the science center.

Alexceya at the sensory table working with our "ice".

Our Chinese Kites! We had  a great time flying them in our Court Yard!

Playing our Chinese Waist Drums!

I'm Back online!

Hello Parents!
Sorry it has been so long since my last blog update, I have had some troubles with my computer.
We have had a great week! We started our Winter Unit, we have made shape snowmen, put snowballs into size order, Made a tear art snowflake, a snow storm with Q Tips and white glitter and put the letters of our names in order to make a long snow ball! Next week we will be focusing on Winter Clothing. If you search for "Jan Brett, The Mitten" on You Tube, you can watch the story, "The Mitten". We will be reading this book next week.
Also don't forget about your 100 things in a zip lock bag! We have received one set of Pony Beads from Wyatt, Thanks Mrs. Coley and Wyatt! I will be sending home your Icare paper on Tuesday, please try to get this filled out and returned to us as soon as possible. Our character trait this month is "To Dream".
Monday is a holiday! I hope you all have a wonderful long weekend with your children! See you next week!

Book Week Day Two!

Book week is going so well! Thank you for all the participation. Tomorrow is Pajama Day! Don't forget Friday is Book Character Day. Please help us make our parade filled with characters! The students can dress as any book character they would like as long as they have the book to carry with them. If you have any questions, please call or email me, lbitzer@liberty.k12.ga.us. Pictures coming soon!  

Fire Station!

First I want to say, our class was so well behaved! I could not of asked for them to have been any better. I am so proud of them. We learned so many things and had a blast! I hope you all enjoyed the treat bag they received from the fire fighters. Have a wonderful weekend and be proud of your child, cause they are amazing!




We went inside and toured the brand new fire station!





The fire fighters showed us all around the trucks! We got to see the hoses, all the tools, their equipment that they wear during a fire, and lots of other things.

We even got to hear the sirens!





The tires are bigger than some of our kids!





Fire Safety Week!

We have learned lots of new and important fire safety information this week. We have practiced Stop Drop and Roll, we learned several new vocabulary words (Hydrant, Extinguisher, Detector, Alarm), how to use 911, we compared Hot and Cold things, and the children came up with words that start with F for fire! They have done so well this week! A police officer came to visit on Wednesday, our class was the BEST behaved out of 4! I was so proud of them! Don't forget we will be ending our fire safety unit at the Fire Station tomorrow! The children should have lots to tell you all tomorrow afternoon. We asked for everyone to wear a red shirt.

Jaden, Joseph, Wyatt, Miss Torrence and Noah

Riley reading our Firefighter Poem

Alexceya, Dajon, Kohlmin and Kamuela building fire trucks and tall buildings!

Kera standing next to the tall building they made!

Pizza Week!

Our Pizza unit began today! We made pizza dough, made paper plate pizzas, sang pizza songs and read pizza books! Our Pre-K Pizzeria opened in Home Living Center. The children had such a good time today. They can take orders, make pizza and deliver it. If you have any old spatulas that you would be willing to donate to our room, we would appreciate it. The children were flipping the pizzas over in the Kitchen area and we have several games that require you to flip the card over.

Please don't forget to send your family picture in!

Jan Carlos working with pizza dough

Joseph playing a pepperoni counting game

Wyatt taking Shelvie's Order

Kynnedy cooking up a pizza!

Alexceya and Jaden at the sensory table! We have flour this month!!

Kamuela Playing a Pizza Matching Game

Nursery Rhymes

We are talking about Nursery Rhymes this week. Yesterday we did Hey Diddle Diddle. The children made patterned hats that they wore home. This morning almost the whole class could read the rhyme using picture points. Ask them to tell it to you at home. Today we foucused on Itsy Bitsy Spider. We sang the song using our hands, we drew, colored, cut and pasted three sized spiders and put them into size order (Large Medium Small), some of the children made a spider web with marble paint *paper laying down in flat box, rock it back and forth to spread the paint* they got to rock the box as far as they could count out loud. It was a very busy and fun day.

Please don't forget to send in your family picture if you haven't done so!

Our Week

I wanted to say Thank You to all the parents for your understanding this week with Open House being cancelled. It has been very hard on us up here this week. Mrs. Lowe was a huge part of our school, and we will miss her very much. As soon as we know about the updated Open House I will let you all know.

This week we talked about the book Chicka Chicka Boom Boom. We will continue to cover this book and do activities centered around letters. You can go online (www.youtube.com) and watch the story. Type in Chicka Chicka Boom Boom and a video will come up that we have been watching. Please help us to reinforce the knowledge of the letters in their first name. We have focused mainly on the first letter in their names. Most of the students are writing their names very well. *Always encourage them to use One capital letter at the beginning and the rest lower case*

Don't forget about Impact Aid forms. If we have not called you your form is correct and we thank you! Have a WONDERFUL long weekend and be safe!

Brown Day

Don't forget to wear Gray tomorrow!

Pink Day!

Yesterday for Pink day we read several fun books about the color Pink, we painted with "salt paint", used pink play dough, used letter stamps and pink ink, and had a sensory experience with pink shaving cream! The children really seemed to have a good time yesterday! Again thank you for the participation with color week!

Tasting New Things

Last week we tasted lemons for yellow day and pickles for green day! Lemon tasting was very entertaining! For green day the students got to taste a sweet pickle and a dill pickle, then they placed their name card on a graph that said sweet and sour. I hope you all will come to Open House on the 30th to see our charts!

Color Week!

Color week was so fun! We had great participation. Thank you all for allowing them to wear the colors each day. We have some very creative things in our room now that we have made. I hope you all will come to Open House on the 30th to see our room!

Orange Day!

The children had such a good time yesterday! We finger painted with red and yellow to make orange, we mixed colors in zip lock baggies, and used orange play dough and cookie cutters! We also open our Home Living Center (The Kitchen Area) yesterday! Looking forward to day filled with YELLOW!

Red Day!

Red Day went well! We did lots of things centered around red. We did our daily news in a red marker. Most everyone wore their red clothes, we introduced sorting by color, we starting using stamps with red ink, some of us made a red Tye-dye coffee filter with red markers and water. We thought of several things that were red and made a chart.



Our First Full Week of Pre-K!

This week we have been learning how to use our classroom materials properly. The students have been learning how to play with the toys that are on the shelves as well as clean them up correctly. We are making our classroom rules together. This is always a fun activity for the children. We talk about manners and then we decide together what our rules should be. We will also be taking a school tour to meet the staff that the children interact with everyday. We have been playing games to help the children learn how to walk in a line, and stay in their place. They have done such a good job! The are catching on quickly. I hope they are sharing all the fun things we are doing with you all. Next week is COLOR week! We will wear a different color clothing each day. Please allow your child to participate.

Welcome

Hello! I am so excited for the year to begin! I look forward to sharing our class activities often... Check out our blog weekly for a look inside our classroom!