Lauren's Little Learners: All about Me

Our first week of preschool started off rainy, but fortunately everyone arrived safely. Since our theme was All about Me we learned about ourselves and our friends. First we did Circle Time. Each child had a turn to come pick something out of a bag. Everything in the bag began with the Letter of the Day M. Some of the things were a marker, a map, and a mirror.

Then we did Show and Tell.
Because our theme was All about Me each of the children showed us something special to them.
Mariska (one of the students) brought a monkey, and because we were learning the letter M it went great with the lesson.

After Show and Tell we played a hiding game. In the game we picked one child to go in the other room with Miss Cindy, and we picked another child to hide under a sheet. Then we had the child in the other room come back in and try to guess who was under the sheet.

Then we made place mats so that we could have something to put our snack on each week. On the place mats we put our name, birthday, and hand print. Then the children decorated the mats with stickers and markers.

Once we finished our mats we had snack which was a paper plate face. We put out lots of different options, and the children made faces out of them. While the children ate Miss Lauren read them stories and talked about the five senses with them.

After snack we played a game called Bones, No Bones. First we talked about how our bones help us. Then the children were given clues, and they had to guess what animal the clues were about. Then we would all pretend to be that animal with bones, and NO BONES!!!! When they heard no bones the children would collapses to the ground like an animal without bones.

The last thing we did was make "self puppets." We took paper bags and decorated them with yarn, construction paper, and googly eyes, so they would look like us. (The children brought these home.) Once they were through with their puppets the children played until their parents came.