Ff Week

This week we are going to be learning with the letter Ff.

Fancy Feet - The kiddos really enjoyed decorating their boxed feet.  Some kiddos liked it so much they asked to make fancy hands as well.  Sure!

Here is our stack of donated tissue boxes ready for action.  I ran a piece of clear packing tape around each box to help make it a bit more sturdy.

 Feathers were a favorite...
Here they are doing some fancy footwork! 

 

Backyard - Flower Power Potions - I had these flowers sitting on my table.  They were spent and ready to be thrown away, but I hated to do it.  The colors were still so pretty.  Then I got the fabulous idea to use them for Ff week!

Finger Puppets - So fun!

Die Cut Machine - Feathers - Ms. Sara pulled out her cutting machine so the kiddos could punch out feathers.  They enjoyed it immensely.  My machine is from Stampin' Up and is kid user friendly.  The feathers were a die cut.  Unfortunately you can't really see them in this picture.

Fairies - The girls were super excited to make these.  The guys, slightly less.  Ha.  They worked on making pants and shirts for their boy fairies.

 This is how one of the boy fairies turned out.  I got this fabulous idea from this blog:  Here!

I made half sized fairies for the toddlers.

Snack - Root Beer Floats - Oh yum!Happy kiddos... 


Backyard - Water Works - The kiddos were pouring water into the little water wheel, as it ran through and onto the table, it poured off into the grass.  They grabbed buckets and scoops to catch the water and return it to the wheel.  Quite fun.

Sock Fish - These were fun to put together.  The kiddos chose their sock, we added eyes, then they stuffed it with cotton balls.  We made fishy faces and swam our fish around the room.  Here are a couple of our fish...

I saw this idea on this blog:  Here!  I got the socks at the dollar store.

 Ok, this is seriously my favorite!  This kiddos was cooking up some dinner! 

Coffee Filter Flowers - Toddlers...

I just twisted the pipe cleaner around the scrunched end of the coffee filter and twisted a leaf.

Car Tube - A favorite of the toddlers...

Fishing Poles - We caught our little sock fishes with our poles.  While we were making our poles, the kiddos told me all about the fishing trips they had gone on.  The kiddos found sticks in the backyard, we tied a clothes pin on the bottom of a string of yarn.   I hot glued the knots to make sure they stayed put.

French Fries - YUM!

Learning Station - Letter Fishing

The kiddos had to successfully catch 10 fish and correctly identify them.  They were lower case letters, so that was a bit more tricky for them.

Learning Station - French Fry Count

This was super silly and fun, but it made us hungry for real french fries!  The kiddos counted the correct number of fries into each box.  It was great practice at number recognition and counting by ones.

I got this great idea on the blog:  Here!  She got fry boxes from McDonalds, I found mine in the dollar bins at Target a year or so ago.

Pp Week

Argh!  Today be International Talk Like a Pirate Day!  (September 19th) A perfect way to kick off Pp week!

Pirate Pictures - Each kiddo got an eye patch and their treasure map.  Here are Ms. Sara's fabulous new pirate socks.

One kiddo had these wonderful jeweled shoes on.  We decided pirates would definitely like these shoes!

Treasure - Thar be gold!  The kiddos followed their maps to find their treasure box.  The map is of our preschool, the box is from Dial soap.  I purposely buy Dial soap so I can have these wonderful boxes for projects.  I hot glued a bead on top to facilitate opening the treasure box.

 For the toddlers, their treasure is goldfish crackers.

 The rest of the kiddos got plastic gold coins and jewels (beads).

Journal Time - Hook Hand - The kiddos had a hook hand equipped with a crayon to write in their journals with!

Spy Glass - 


Free Play - Treasure chest, pirate ship (over turned table), and a hug map to boot!

Maps! - A pirate needs a good map!

Pet Parrot - Our pirates needed a parrot.  These turned out super cute.  I hope you enjoy them at home!   I found these cute parrots on this blog:  Here!

 

Scars! - Every pirate needs a few scars.  With the help of my eyeliner pencil, we earned a few bragging scars.


Balloon Swords - A pirate needs a good sword.  The kiddos enjoyed epic sword battles...  Ha!  The kiddo with the green sword asked for a mustache in addition to his pirate scar.

The kiddos employed static electricity to store their swords during snack time.

Circle Time - Pp Stamp - Ms. Sara got a little silly and stamped the letter Pp on our preschoolers!  (They didn't seem to mind.)

Journal Time - The kiddos glued pancakes into their journals in preparation for our pancake party!  Yum!

Pancake Manor - Pancake Party - Our favorite snack time singing group is Pancake Manor (YouTube) and they sing a wonderful song about pancakes.

 

Pouch, Purse or Pocket - We couldn't quite decide which it was.  But here they are!  I just made these out of scrap I had.  The pouch is felt and the strap is ribbon.

 Here they are all decorated!

Here are pouches from the youngsters class...

 

Pancake Party - First we made the batter.  We made the batter pink-ish purple-ish, because those are Pp words.  Then we cooked them and ate them!  Yum!



Backyard Painting - We're always looking for a new canvas to paint on in the backyard.  Today we painted on the metal cans.

 

On Friday, there was a change in the weather, as we were heading inside to start preschool a kiddo told me: "I suggested we go inside because we could get frostbite."  Not quite that cold today, but after our 90 degree weather earlier in the week, I can understand his concern.

Paint Stick Planets - These turned out fabulous.  They're still drying so they'll come home on Monday.  We talked a bit about the planets and sang their song and watched a couple videos, then we were ready to create our own solar systems! 
Kiddo:  "Earth is always spinning.  But I don't hear it or feel it.  But it's always spinning."  Right you are!
I told the kiddos that Saturn is my favorite planet.  They began telling me their favorites as well...
Kiddo:  "I love all the planets.  Even Peru!"
Here they are!  I wanted to make one too, mine is the far left.

I got this fabulous idea on this blog:  Here!