Iguanas - July 9th - 13th

Here is a look at what the Iguanas have been up to this week....

This week was all about fables and fairytales! As some of you may already know, we created a stinky cheese man that ran away and had to be captured. In his honor, we held a cheese tasting in our classroom. The Iguanas tried 4 different kinds of cheeses (Havarti, muenster, provolone, and pepper jack) and graphed which on was their favorite. Much to our surprise, pepper jack cheese was the definite favorite! You can take a look at the graph hanging in the middle room, to see which one your Iguana liked the best.

We made magic wands...

Here we are acting out the story of the 3 little pigs.

Making "3 Little Pig" finger puppets..

Putting on puppet shows...

We read the story of "The Little Red Hen." Afterwards, we made bread sticks from scratch! The Iguanas were able to get involved every step of the way, from making the dough to watching it rise and rolling out the dough. This was tons of fun & yummy too!

Here we our writing our very own fairytales...

We leanred a new way to use bendaroos...

Relaxing & playing cards...

 Picnic in the park...

Happy snow cone day!

The Iguanas love to read!

Just take a look at our summer reading board, and you'll know that its true! Each day the Iguanas excitedly work on filling up their summer reading sheets. We hope that you will share in this excitement at home! Reading before bedtime is a great way to help your Iguana fill in a reading sheet at home! Extra sheets are located at the front desk near the sign out book.  :)

Until next time,

Miss Crystal, Miss Julie, & Miss Rachel

The Stinky Cheese Man Was on the Loose!

This week was at Kidspace was all about fables and fairytales. The Iguanas started out the week by reading the story of the stinky cheese man who is a lot like the infamous gingerbread man, except that he is made out of stinky cheese.

We decided to make our very own stinky cheese man out of goat cheese!

The Iguanas even got a chance to smell & taste the "stinky" cheese...

We were so busy sampling the stinky cheese, we didn't even notice that our stinky cheese man had made a run for it. We knew we had to capture him, so we made wanted posters and told all our Kidspace friends to be on the lookout...

Next, we went out searching for him. We looked everywhere!

We found him!!!

The stinky cheese man was successfully captured!

Thanks for reading,
Miss Crystal, Miss Julie, & Miss Rachel

Iguanas - July 2nd - 6th

Here are some of the highlights from the Iguanas' class this week...

Happy 4th of July!!!

We were ALL about red, white, and blue!

Red, white, and blue paintings...

As with most preschool painting projects, this quickly became and exercise in finger painting and color mixing! :)

Stars & stripes collages...

In preparation for our 4th of July parade, the Iguanas made lots of patriotic crafts (hats, streamers, batons, tambourines), but this one was by far our favorite!

Iguanas on the move...

The Rocket's Red Glare...

This week we studied a little bit about space & rockets.

Rockets made from paper tubes...

Two iguanas collaborate to complete a space puzzle..

Space sensory play...

Water Day!

We started out water day in the classroom by filling our sensory table.

We added fizzy color tablets and watched the colors change!

Later in the day, we headed to the field for an afternoon of slipping, sliding, & sprinklers. Woohoo! One Iguana remarked, "Best day EVER!"

Thanks for reading! Until next week,
Miss Crystal & Miss Julie

IGUANAS - ROCKET EXPERIMENTS

 

outside science

What will happen when you put a little water in a film canister and add an Alka Seltzer tablet?

They fly to the sky!  We learned about pressure and exertion.

                                                                                                                                                                       Miss Katie is an experience rocketeer and came to our rescue when we had a few duds. Thank you Miss Katie

                                                                                                                                                                         Miss Julie and Miss Crystal

IGUANAS - ABSTRACT ART

This art project as a time of free drawing while Miss Julie was reading a story by Dr. Suess.

 

After the students finished drawing, they took their art to the painting table and used water paints to add color to their previous black and white drawing.

After the paintings were dry, Miss Julie and Miss Crystal cut the all pictures into three equal pieces.

Next each child randomly chose three pieces and pieced them together to make one new piece of art. 

 

This was fun for the children, yet it stretched and challenged many of them for a couple of reasons.  First of all, it gave the children a different glimpse of art.  Art doesn't have to be perfect and orderly.  The children learned about "abstract" art.  Secondly, the children had to let go of their painting in order to create new "abstract" art with their friends.   The children learned that for some projects, "together is better!"

Enjoy, Miss Julie and Miss Crystal