Yummy Patterns

We practiced AB patterning with slices of strawberries and bananas. We made our own healthy candy canes!

Wonderful Weather

We had to get out and enjoy the beautiful weather before the cold blew in. The butterflies were everywhere!

Terrific Turkey

Open House

We had a great turn out for open house. Students did a great job showing their families some of our Pre-K activities! Some of the dad's really seemed to enjoy coloring a turkey after finishing their work.

Harold and the Purple Crayon

Each of the students illustrated their own purple journey, just like Harold.

Happy Halloween!

Pumpkin Guts

We had a great time exploring the insides of a pumpkin. The kids were a little hesitant to get messy until Ms. Prock reminded them that kids are supposed to get messy sometimes.

Growing Vegetable Soup

We finished getting the garden ready and planted some vegetables!  We talked about the different sizes and shapes of leaves that we saw and the way some of the plants smelled.  We will do our best to take care of our garden and hopefully we will have some delicious veggies to put in our soup. 



Safety First!

Thank you Lytle Volunteer Fire Department for your visit.  We had a great time looking at a real fire fighter, practicing Stop, Drop, and Roll and exploring the fire truck.

Tricycle Time!

Cooking Up a Celebration

We celebrated Johnny Appleseed's birthday today with a cooking activity. We made chunky applesauce and ate it for our snack. Of course we had to have some apple juice to go with it.  :)

Good Clean Fun!

We began preparation on our garden. We were loosening soil, pulling weeds, and "finding gold". We hope to get some seeds and plants into the garden sometime next week.

Parrot Class May 2013

Their picture came out so great, I just had to share it right away!  I've said it before and I'll say it again, I have the very best pre-k there is.  I love my class.

Down On The Farm

We spent last week and some of this week down on the farm, learning all about farm animals.  We talked about which animals live on a farm, what they look like, what they eat, and what they give to people.  I put grass and farm toys in the sensory table.  It was clearly a hit.  Their favorite books for this unit were Click, Clack, Moo Cows that Type and Interrupting Chicken.

Thanks to Devani's mom, we had some great pictures of real farm animals!

Spring Open House

On Thursday, April 11th we had an Open House at Lytle Primary.  Many parents came out to see what our students have been learning about for the past few weeks.  Pre-K has been focusing on plants and working in our garden.  For Open House we had sensory tables for children to explore soil and seeds, a seed planting station, and a sticky table to investigate the parts of plants.  The students had a great time showing their parents the activities they've been enjoying.

PTO Spring Festival

Thank you to all of our wonderful parents for your donations of Goldfish snacks, snack bags, and hard work!  Your generosity helps to raise money for the Pre-K field trips.

Our Fish Game was BY FAR the most popular.  The line stayed long until we ran out of snacks and fish.  We learned a few things that will make next year even more successful and we had a great time.  I am the luckiest teacher!  I get to work in a wonderful community and I have fantastic parents and students.

Spring Celebration

We started our very full day of celebrating with an egg hunt on the playground.  There were eggs covering the grass!  The students had a wonderful time "finding" eggs and oooo-ed and aaaaah-ed over the shiny and sparkly eggs.  After a treat of eating lunch in our classroom, we walked over to the park.  We played on the playground, blew bubbles, drew with sidewalk chalk, and cracked confetti eggs on each other.  We had snack at the park before walking back to the school.  The children were worn out, but smiling the whole way back.

I am so very grateful to have such generous parents.  You provided water bottles, snacks, stuffed eggs, confetti eggs, bubbles, chalk, time and muscle (those water bottles are heavy!).  Thank you for making our celebration a success.  You're the BEST!!!

5-A-Day Parade

We came back from Spring Break ready to show off our love of healthy food.  The Pre-K and Head Start classes have been learning about making healthy choices including eating plenty of fruits and veggies.  With that in mind, families created a costume to show off their child's favorite fruit or veggie.  We had a great variety!  There were grapes, pineapple, apples, broccoli, strawberries, pickles, cucumbers, oranges, watermelon, and a banana.  It was quite an accomplishment and so much fun to get 5 classes of young children costumed and lined up in the hall.  The whole school lined up outside along with lots of camera clicking family members.  We paraded around the tricycle track several times waving a smiling before heading back to class.  All in all, a very successful parade. 

Head in the Clouds

We have had a great week learning about things in the day and night sky as well as solving math word problems and learning about the letter Gg.  We had a fun lesson outside learning about clouds.  We read some books, looked at the stratus clouds that were in the sky, and painted clouds with puffy paint.

Everybody has been enjoying our fairytale theme.  We have created Cinderella's glass slipper and built castles in the Block Center.

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Our class has been hard at work.  We have been learning shapes, colors, numbers and letters.  Every new letter is new and exciting.  The letter M meant the creation of mustache masks!