High Wire or Balance Beam?

Each day this month we are reading a different fairy tale or folk tale.

  Earlier this week we read "Mirette on the High Wire" by Emily Arnold McCully.  My students loved learning about Paris, hearing some French, and learning about the art of walking on a high wire.  

We pulled out the balance beam and tried walking it ourselves!

Next we made balance birds.  

Super easy to do, cut bird pattern (old file folders work great) then attach a paperclip to each wing.  

We discovered we could balance them on our fingers and even our noses!

What else could we balance them on?

Great way to incorporate social studies, gross motor and science into story time! 

Snow Update

Dinosaur Snow Gauge

Sensory Bottles

With the cold weather and indoor recess welcoming us back to school, 

I was thinking of something fun I could add to my classroom.  

Sensory bottles!

I collected different sized bottles for variety.  Some are liquid, dry, noisy, bright, or just cool!  These are a great addition for my science area.  I can't wait until my students get back from Christmas break!

Tip: I hot glued the lids on, just in case.

I hope everyone enjoyed their break and time with family.

TpT Cyber Sale and Snowmen!

In case you haven't heard yet.....

TPT is having a HUGE sale!  

Monday and Tuesday only, are you ready?

There is a chance of snow here later this week!  I'm soooo excited!

I made this for my kiddos to celebrate!

Check it out now, but wait until tomorrow to snatch it up!

Have a great week!

Building Scarecrows

We built REAL scarecrows this week!  

Such a great opportunity for children to experience teamwork and accomplishment.

 It was so much fun!

I had planned to attach them to poles and stand them up outside our classroom

 window but mother nature gave us rain instead.

Plan B..... Lawn chairs in our classroom!

The kids were so excited that we brought them inside.  

This little one decided to teach them to count with some flash cards.

The rain finally stopped and we had a sunny ending to our week.  We took the scarecrows, which now have names "Scarecrow and Cha-nae-nae", outside to enjoy the day.  We decided to take some corn from the sensory table out to share with the crows.

This led to an unexpected science experiment. 

 "Are crows really scared of scarecrows?"

The students made their predictions.

And then we waited.....

We didn't see anything today.  

We are going to keep an eye on them next week.  I'll let you know if we have any visitors!

This Week in Pre K... "Scarecrows"

A big thank you to Deedee Wills and everyone that entered the monster give away this weekend! 

Those are always so much fun! 

I worked on a new unit to go along with my scarecrow week.
You can get it in my TpT Store. It will be 10% off today only!

I am linking up with Deedee from Mrs. Wills Kindergarten.  Great ideas to be shared!

Thanks Deedee!

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