Community Helpers

I am behind on my posts but I am shooting for a few a week because it is hard to find time. This week is all about community helpers. We started off the morning with reading Help full Firefighters. We discussed what to do if our clothes are on fire: STOP, DROP, and ROLL. We each took turns acting it out and calling out the commands.  Then we practiced on our play phones dialing 911, which they all figure out. I try to stress that this is only used in case of an emergency, telling then situations. Look out with your phones (lol).
The picture is of our Bakers center where they mix in glitter and yummy "bread" in the dramatic play center ( this is a favorite!)
Dough recipe:
2 cups of flour
1 cup of salt
1 1/2 cups of water
We had flour in a spice container to add as needed when playing

 We then went on to do our art activity. The kids traced their own hands and they did a great job. we then glued on 5 firemen hats and they each traced the letter F on the hat. While doing the art project we sang the

Five Little Firefighters

Five Little firefighters sleeping in their bed
The first one said, "Put your helmet on your head!"
The second one said, "Down the pole we'll slide."
The third one said, "Get ready to ride!"
The fourth one said, "Put your gas mask on your nose."
The fifth one said, "I'll grab the hose!"
Then Woooo went the siren and out went the fire
And the five little firemen could finally retire!

Safety Week

Since it is Child Protection and Safety month we are spending a week discussing safety. We started off the day with circle time each child saying a few things we do to ensure our safety and our friends. We sang our walk across the street song with acting it out the second time ( actress little A) then all began acting it out. We read and colored the first page of our poison safety activity book. Older A decided to move onto the word search tracing the letters that are in her name ( calling out A and V!), and moving on to other peoples first letters of their name ( Go older A). Best part was her writing her name with only a reminder to add the line in the letter A ( proud moment mom)! Finished the early morning with box card races (J's idea).
The weather turned very cold (we are Texans) so we headed to McDonalds for a cookie and to play! Little A requested hot chocolate from the cashier (LOL).
Morning of great achievements and indoor play lead to sleepy kiddos.

Continued...
Afternoon
J brought out the hard hats and goggles for "safe playing". Little A added her hard hat during the demolition of our Fall Leaves number board.
And card board box is Older A's continued afternoon practice with writing her name!!!
And... Mr. And Ms. Iron man were at McDonalds!

Fun at the park

We had a great morning at Zilker Park. The play ground was closed for renovations but we still managed to spend almost 3 hours there. We were minus little A and both kiddos said we couldn't leave before she got here. We played by the water throwing rocks and feeding the minnows some bread. We then found a shade tree to have a picnic and run around. They were pretending to spy kids hissing behind trees near other people. Leaving was hard it was a beautiful and fun morning.

Our first trip to the library

This morning we did our matching and tracing activity. The kids did great. There were 3 columns on the page a road , track , and a sidewalk. We used the puzzle pieces from our transportation puzzle to trace the correct form of transportation to the 3 columns. Each kid did great. Older a drew own bicycle on the sidewalk wheels and all. Little thinker A decided to traced her foot because I asked her what goes on the side walk and she said " my feet " ( correct and a mode of transportation!). We discussed this for a while then went on to our writing activity tracing the Upper case letter T and lower case letter t which I write in yellow marker and they trace. All kids continued on their own writing the letter T (woohoo).
Right before the rain hit and cold chilly wing we headed to the community pavilion for racing and yelling. Getting energy out before our first story time at the library. It went great they each went right in grabbing a book and a carpet square. The lady begin to read and little A decided to join her in front of the and was helping her read. it was so cute. They read three story about the rain and sang a few songs one being the ABC's at the request of little A ( she does not have a problem in a crowed of people)! After story time they did water color painting. All four of us had a great time with our new adventure. Plus we need to mingle with others!

Transportation Week

It's a rainy fall day but of course we know how Tp have fun. This time change has messed is up, at least it is easy to wakeup now.
This month is child protection and safety month
Circle time this morning was funny because we all take turns saying what we did this weekend. But the kids told a story this morning. J started with going fishing ( yes we did) then there was a coyote that came and ate his fish? Little A continued with a bear got her and cit her leg. She began to bleed so the bear got het a bandaid and kissed it! Older A went to the jumpy place and her friends came but she broke her leg and her mom was sad. Let me tell you these stories beat the book we read about different types of transportation.
We decided to get messy with paint and cars. Each videos car was "splashing through the paint. So yes we had paint every where even in hair( funny!).
The raining stopped so we headed to the park with riding toys ( J and older A), and little A had het rain heat and a basketball. We met our friends and had a blast ridding and splashing in the puddles.

Excuse spelling errors blogging on my phone whew hard work. Lol!