Racing into Derby Week! (Threes)

This week went "racing" by! Mrs. Nicole and I are sad that the year is almost over. However, we have had such a blast teaching this sweet class!

We had lots of fun to fit in this week, from making some special gifts to go home next week to racing our pool noodle horses! We did several "final" things, including our final coloring samples and tracing sheets for the portfolios. It is amazing how far everyone has come in our fine motor skills!

We read a wide variety of horse and horse racing books this week, including the book Gaston Goes to the Kentucky Derby. We had fun making letter H horses (while practicing our cutting skills), doing horse uppercase/lowercase letter matching, learning several new horse songs, feeding our horses oats, building number fences, and more!

We can definitely say our pool noodle horses were one of the highlights of the week! Our Derby had some fast competition!

This week, see if your child can...
1. Tell you the sounds of letter D and H (for Derby and horse). 
2. Order the numbers 1 to 10 with no help.
3. Do a sound sort of six to eight pictures that start with two different letters. 
4. Tell you about Paul and  Silas in prison. 
5. Tell you one fact about a horse they learned. 

We loved feeding the horses oats!

Someone ordered all the numbers
with no help!

So proud of her work!

Gumby went on his last adventure!

Look at that letter writing!

We created a self portrait!

Someone was ready for Derby!

We had a class prayer circle today!

And they're off!

Derby Week (Kinder Prep)

Our Derby week went “racing” by! We truly cannot believe that next week is our final week. What a joy this class has been to teach! 

We had lots of fun this week learning about the Kentucky Derby and all of the festivities that go along with it. We read a wide variety of books about the Derby and horses and enjoyed making several crafts to go along with our theme, including a letter H horse and the face for a pool noodle horse. These horses sure had fun racing in our own mini Derby back behind the school! We also enjoyed making our own "sailboats" to race (to go along with today's boat race in Louisville)! We have some very competitive friends in our class! :) 

Such fast horses!

Fun with boat races!

It was quite the competition!

Our centers also included lots of fun this week! We continued to work on our teen numbers and our letters as a final review for the year. We are becoming very independent!

If you didn’t see many crafts come home this week, you can look forward to a beautiful Mother’s Day gift next week! 

Bridge Class

We were off and running during Bridge this week as well! We enjoyed learning lots of fun facts about horses as well as what is involved in racing horses. We enjoyed making our own clothespin horses, hand print horses, and Popsicle stick horses! We worked a lot on subtraction this week in our Bridge small group, and we were amazed at how quickly everyone is grasping this concept! What a smart bunch! We look forward to our final week together next week!