Showing posts with label Chicka Chicka Boom Boom. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Chicka Chicka Boom Boom. Show all posts

August 31, 2011

Is A Coconut a Mammal?


How can you tell if something is a mammal?  It has hair.......a coconut has hair.  It produces milk......coconuts produce milk.  It's young look like the adults....baby coconuts look like big coconuts.  But, coconuts aren't really mammals; they are plants!  Coconuts grow on trees, in hot and sometimes sandy places.  We made our coconut's for a coconut trees.










August 25, 2011

Preschool Begins!

 This week marks our first week of Preschool.  Here is a list of items we'll be working on  through the end of August:
Theme:  Chicka Chicka Boom Boom
Introduction to Alphabet, Upper and Lower case
Biggest-Smallest, Shapes in the world around us, Recognizing and writing our names
small motor tracing practice, shaping sorting and lots of art!
Here are some fun pictures from our first days of school













Sorting Letters for our Coconut Tree
Chicka Chick Boom Boom, Will there be enough room
Everyone found the letter of their first name


Writing letters to go up the coconut tree

Chicka Chick Boom Boom Letter bottles

Everyone sorted their trapezoids from biggest to littlest
Then glued them down as a tree trunk
 

We then add triangle leaves, and circle coconuts

Our "shape" coconut tree