Moose, Elk and Deer---2015

Last week, our MWF preK students learned about moose, elk and white tail deer.  We learned---
*moose are the largest in the deer family
*moose and elk do not live in our area but white tail deer do
*male moose & elk are bulls-females are cows and babies are calves
*male deer are bucks-females are does and babies are fawns and fawns have spots
*Vocabulary-antlers (students learned they are bone), shed, hervivore

We created a Rudolph.

Moose make counting fun and we get to press the easy button.

We watched a short video on moose---https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nAZt9CtHrMk  Ask your child what they learned about moose, elk and white tail deer!

Cookies, Cookies, Cookies

We finished up our cookie unit with our TTh 3 y/o class last week.  We had so much fun tasting cookies and making a Cookie Monster and a gingerbread man from paper.  Fun-fetti play dough is in our art center and on Tuesday students will be taking home a gingerbread ornament.  We have playing 'Who Took the Cookie from the Cookie Jar?' and that makes everyone laugh and giggle!

For more information and recipes---http://metamoracommunityprek.blogspot.com/2013/12/cookies-2013_12.html

Baby You Can Drive My Car

 Baby you can drive my car but maybe not the late great Janis Joplin's Porsche. The 1964 custom Porsche recently was sold for $1.76 million.  This is how you get to the School of Rock!

http://money.cnn.com/2015/12/10/luxury/janis-joplin-porsche-auction/

Christmas I SPY Bottles

Christmas I SPY bottles are in our Discovery Center and easy to create at home.  Gather lots of green and red items (beads, buttons, poms) and  mini Christmas ornaments to make one for home.

How to---http://metamoracommunityprek.blogspot.com/2010/11/i-spy.html

Mrs. Claus and Her Bakery

 Our dramatic play area is Santa's Workshop and Mrs. Claus' Bakery.  We have our kitchen set for baking and have slowly been replacing our play food and kitchen equipment.  The kitchen utensils are real kitchen items found at our local super store.  They come in a wide variety of bright colors and are easy to throw in the dishwasher to keep clean.  

We have lots of paper cupcake liners (post Christmas sales) and sprinkles for cupcakes and cookies.  Plastic salt & pepper shakers found at our local dollar store are filled with pony beads.  The lid was  super glued  and our busy bakers can shake lots and lots of sprinkles on all the delicious cookies and cupcakes they bake every day.

Hope you and your child are having lots of fun during this most wonderful time of the year!

Down Through the Chimney with Good Saint Nick

We have a sleigh for Santa to deliver all the presents at MCP.

http://metamoracommunityprek.blogspot.com/2012/11/santas-sleigh.html

Now we have a chimney!  This was a wonderful addition to our dramatic play area. It's two boxes that fit very snugly and is pretty sturdy for our preschool play!

The Grinch---2015

Mean ol' Mr. Grinch learned a valuable lesson about the true meaning of Christmas and so are our MCP MWF classes.  We listened to the story and then made a Grinch craft.  Mr. Grinch is furry so we snipped the green paper.

 Eyes and a nose...teacher added details for a happy ending!

 

Everyone liked the Grinch cookies (we ran out of time to graph our likes or dislikes).  Here is the recipe---http://www.inkatrinaskitchen.com/grinch-cookies/  You really could use any white cake mix and we added several drops of green food color.  The recipe calls for one drop and that was not enough.  I used a cookie scoop and we also did not place in the powder sugar.  Our assistant director had the foresight to buy our hearts around Valentines' Day but a quick search for Wilton Jumbo Heart Sprinkles shows you can buy through your favorite online store. 

Have some fun with the Grinch with your child today!