I Promise...

I promise I will get around to sharing my Alphabet Posters!!!!  My life is a hectic mess lately between teaching preschool, running a crazy business, having two kids, being on the PTO and Youth Baseball Boards, havving one child in baseball and another in dance and gymnastics!  But, as soon as our elementary school's Fall Festival is over, I will get it all together and send to anyone who wants it!  If you are interested, comment here with your e-mail and I will send a mass e-nail out in a few weeks!  

I am also in the middle of making Color Song posters.  We teach our kids the color songs from Frog Street Press and I have been making the cutest posters we used during circle time!  They are at school but I will take pictures next week and share!

Five Senses Fun

We had a fun week talking all about our Five Senses and the Human Body.  We sang songs, we read poems, we played games and helped the children learn all about how to smell, taste, touch, hear and see!  The kids had some fun (and some not so much fun) smelling different things!  Between all the spices and other smells, the kids definitely learned what they liked and did not like.  We also had fun listening to a CD of many different everyday sounds and letting the kids figure out what they all were.

The kids also learned all about their bodies and their bones.  We had fun talking about and feeling the bones in our hands and faces.  The kids loved getting to go home and tell their parents how many bones are in our bodies!  We did many fun crafts for this week!

 We made our 5 Senses Bear using jingle bells in the ears, wiggly eyes, cotton for the nose, sandpaper on the hands and real bubblegum on the mouth.

This is what the kids did for the human body.  We cut out the parts and they glued together their bodies.  The template was originally a game but we decided to make a craft instead.  You can find it here: http://www.activityvillage.co.uk/skeleton_game.htm

We make a spice hand every year and some enjoy the smells and some don't!  Each finger has a different spice glued on... Cinnamon, Garlic Powder, Cumin, Oregano and Basil.

And this is just a random one we did involving one of our letters for the month.  O is for Oatmeal.