Theme: Montana Animals

September 17-21



Last week the Raccoon's learned all about Montana Animals! They discussed what kind of animals live here in Montana and what kind of habitats they have and what certain animals like to eat!

In Circle:

Letter: C
Color: Green
Shape: Circle
Rhyming Words: Lip and Ship


Art Projects:

Montana Teady Bears
Made Binoculars
Easel Painting
Watercolor Pictures


Activities:

Free coloring
Cutting Skills
Beauty Shop
Puzzles
Music and Dance
Airplanes
Kitchen
Tumbling (hoping the smoke will clear out soon so we can add outside play to this list!)
Story of Goldilocks and the Three Little Bears
Playdough
Played with miniature Montana Animals

Pictures:

Theme of the Week: The Five Senses!

September 10-14



The Raccoons have started to take turns bringing home the Alphabet bag and the Star of the Week can.  The Alphabet bag is taken home by the children and used for letter recognition. The letter of the week is the focus of the the Alphabet bag. This last week the letter was B. The child picked would fill the Alphabet bag with various items that started with B and bring it to school to share with the class during circle time! The star of the week can is taken home and inside are questionnaires that the kids can do with parents. Then the star of the week fills the can with pictures of family and themselves to share with the class. The star of the week poster stays up on the art closet door for the whole week.

This last week was all about the five senses. The children got to use all of their senses when they popped popcorn in an old fashioned popcorn maker last week. They got to touch, taste, smell, see, and hear the popcorn.

Some activities:

• "What's in the Jar?" (the children guessed what objects were making the noises in the jars.) Some of the items inside were: beans, rice, buttons, puff balls, etc.
• Playdough
• "Ned's Head"(the children felt around for the specific objects.)
• Fun with Shaving Cream!
• Tumbling Mats

Art activities:

• Apple painting
• Collages

Theme: All About Me and My Family!

September 3-7




Question for the Raccoon's: What is your favorite animal?

Answers: unicorn, zebra, big big tiger, Elmo, and Horse:)


Art Projects:

• red hand prints on yellow paper
• "this is me" dolls (pasting and body identification)

The Raccoon's have started using the "Circle Chart". It is used in the morning during circle time and contains:

• The letter of the day
• Words of the day
• Number of the day
• Rhyming words
• Shape
• Color

The children worked on pasting and counting while they made paper pizzas! It was a great way to make counting fun:) 

Have a great weekend!