last days of school

Our last week of school contained a mixture of some of our favorites from throughout the year. On Tuesday we enjoyed opposites, the most fun being pretending that it was the opposite of a day at school and that it was night. It was fun to see the students in their pajamas and we loved our pajama story time session with some favorite stuffed animals. On Wednesday I tried to select many of the most loved books and songs and fingerplays of the year for one last circle time session. On both days there were many free choice art activities made available to the students as well as all of the toys and centers in the classroom. 

eye droppers of colored vinegar onto baking soda

collage making

fun with dress up

drawing and cutting triangles on our last day in the Triangle Room

buddies

opposites- sink or float

painting with corn starch, food coloring, and water

shaving cream and paint finger painting

pajama story time

Monsters, Mommies, and the letter M

Thank you for coming to our Mother's Tea on Thursday. It is always one of my favorite morning at Webster Hills. It is hard not to love a morning filled with so much excitement, hugs, and smiles!

 This week we also enjoyed monster fun!

Highlights of our learning time include:

• creating monsters of our own with assorted art materials and journaling about these monsters
• going on a monster hunt
• moving like monsters- oh what fun we have stomping and growling in the Triangle Room!
• singing songs and doing fingerplays about monsters
• creating monster blob pictures with glitter glue and google eyes
• graphing colorful monsters and interpreting our graph together
• looking in magazines for items beginning with the letter M
• creating room decorations and surprises for our Mother's Tea

Books we read together this week:

• Where The Wild Things Are
• The Monster At The End of This Book
• There's A Monster In My House
• Go Away Big Green Monster
• Glad Monster, Sad Monster
• Five Little Monsters
• One Hungry Monster
• There's No Such Thing As Monsters
• There Was An Old Monster
• What Mommies Do Best

Love this Playdoh monster that Landon and Emmett created!

James wanted his monster to have many eyes.

"I really like this!" says Annabelle. 

"My monster has a handle!" says Izabella. 

Hard at work searching for words that begin with the letter M. 

Working on the paper chain for our Mother's Tea. 

I love to see the creations the students come up with during free choice. 

Watercolor is always a favorite. 

Friends enjoying a good monster book together. 

Love this smile!

The students worked so hard to create decorations for the Tea. 

Our sensory table contained colorful paper and special scissors. On Wednesday we used these skills to create a large paper chain to hang as decoration for the Mother's Tea. Some of the students worked so hard on this, choosing to spend almost all of their free choice time creating the chain. 

We enjoyed creating special jewelry for our Tea guests.