Explorers was the theme this week and we had a great time being explorers ourselves!  We traveled across Oceans with Max, while reading Where the Wild Things Are and then had our own "wild rumpus!"  We learned about the famous explorer Christopher Columbus while reading In 1492.  Then we made funny Christopher Columbus pictures.  We became astronauts and traveled on a space shuttle exploring not only the moon but distant planets.  What a great trip it was.
    

Since we spent so much time exploring places in or across the ocean, we sang "Row, row, row your boat" this week.  So many early explorers used boats to explore our world.  We partnered up and held hands with a buddy to help row our boats.  We sang and rowed fast and slow.  Henry is a vary vigorous rower, he likes his boat to be fast!  We also used different body parts to row our oars.  We practiced rowing with our arms, legs, elbows, fingers and tongues.  Tegan is a great finger rower and uses his little voice to row his little finger boat.  We also sang "little red caboose" this week which Anna requests every time we head to the bathroom. 
    

In Science, we are learning about the concepts of sinking and floating.  We had fun experimenting with things in water tubs to see whether they would sink to the bottom (like the eraser) or float on the top of the water (like the wooden craft stick).  
    

We are learning about shapes this month.  We read Hello Kitty's Hello Shapes book to introduce some basic shapes.  We made Circle Collages and talked about things that are shaped like circles.  Monica said "A Ball is a circle" and Rory told us that "a turtles shell" is a circle too.  We also enjoyed playing the What Shape is it? game as a large group activity.  The children enjoyed yelling out the shape names and I'm sure that everyone in the school knows that we are very excited about squares in Preschool.
    

Our letter focus this week was the excellent letter E.  Both of our Ellie's names begin with E.  Ellie B. thinks it's pretty cool to have another Ellie in Class. In art, we painted envelopes and decorated eggs to emphasize the letter E.  We also did lots of exercises.  We did jumping jacks, toe touches and other exercises that are super funny to do with a large group of three year olds.  (It is so cute to watch little kids do jumping jacks and Brodie couldn't stop laughing which was pretty funny too.)
    

We are super excited to welcome Mason, Hannah and Ellie to our class.  We are glad you are here! 
    

Thank you Amelia for bringing in the cutest little pumpkin.  It's adorable and makes me feel so smiley.
    

A quick reminder that conferences are this month.  If you are interested in having a parent-teacher conference please e-mail Angie at angie@playboutique.com or leave a note on the parent board note box.  Conferences are available early evenings, Monday through Friday.