Yellow {FOUR} {Oo} Week

Dear Preschool Parents,

Yellow Week was lots of fun, especially when with so many of yellow shirts showing up at school. We spelled yellow while dancing, swirling and singing and named lots of yellow things.The children also learned the #4 poem. We introduced the letter O and circles. We learned the sound that letter O makes and found lots of O words; octopus, Ollie, olives, owl.

YELLOW SONG (If you're happy and you know it tune)

Y-E-L-L-O-W spells yellow.

Y-E-L-L-O-W spells yellow.

Like the early morning sun

When the day has just begun.

Y-E-L-L-O-W spells yellow.

Daffodils and baby ducks are yellow. 

Lemonade and scrambled eggs are yellow.

I like the smiley face that's yellow,

he is such a happy fellow.

Y-E-L-L-O-W spells yellow.

The children colored an octopus yellow and glued Fruit Loop O's on all the arms. Mason and Rustin were working hard to pull a few of their O's apart before gluing them on. Rustin said, "The struggle is REAL!" Ha! Mrs. Walters and Miss Julie laughed and laughed. They also said Nash colored his particularly nice and dark. Great job, Nash!

Mrs. Walters read the children a great story, "Everybody has a bucket!" What a great story! Ask your children if they know what a dipper is!

Wednesday, the children made octopus puppets and Mrs. Walter told the children she was going to name her octopus, Ollie. She pretended to have Ollie munch olives! Then, she asked the children what they were going to name their octopus. Madden said, "I'm naming mine, Bloodgrog!" Trig said, "Bladecrack!" Dani said, "Joe Moe!" Allison said, "Emoji!" Navy E. said, "Cupcake!" Mason named his "Taco Bell because he likes to get burritos there. Mrs. Walters later said, "Madden, keep coloring Bloodgrog pretty yellow!" Madden said, "He's NOT pretty!" Ha! Mrs. Walter talked about using coloring muscles. "Are you getting strong coloring muscles like Captain America?" "Like Iron Man?" Ryder said, "I have normal coloring muscles!" 

At recess, the children were pretending to gas up to run faster. Lilly said, "My gas is all blowed out!" Ha!

Thursday, the children all made owl pictures. Sooo cute!

I am happy to announce that I am coming home later this week. My husband got an early release and we are thrilled with his progress. Much thanks to all who have been so supportive and helpful during this time in our lives. Especially, I wanted to thank Gracia's family for volunteering to take care of my yard. I heard all of her children wanted to help. That means so much to me. Maximus, Rockwell, Steele, Francesca and now Gracia have all been my students. They are so dear to me. I see Ken at the temple nearly every week and adore Amberlee. Thank you so much. So sweet! Thank you!

I am excited to see everyone again and sleep in my own bed!

Next week is Black Week. Wear Black!!!

Much, much love,

Gail McClure

Blue {TWO} Week

Dear Preschool Parents,

I am reporting to you from a hospital room in Utah. We hope to be released by tomorrow. My husband, Chuck, is doing well in his progress after surgery. We have a few more weeks of recovery and then we will finally be able to travel home. I have heard that the children had great fun with blue week. I am so very grateful to Mrs. Walters and Miss Julie for carrying on in my absence. The children learned the number three poem and the blue song. They had the chance to name many blue things and things of three ie: Three Little Pigs, Three Bears, Three Musketeers, etc.

B-L-U-E SONG (To the tune of The Farmer in the Dell)

B L U E spells blue

B L U E spells blue

High Ho, Oh don't you know?

B L U E spells blue

The big sky is blue,

The ocean is too!

High Ho! Oh don't you know?

B L U E spells blue!

Find our complete number collection here! 

Monday, the children had fun making their boats and floating them outside in a small pool. They had great fun blowing their boats across the water. “Look at mine!” “Mine is going the fastest!” Luckily, no one dove in to retrieve their boat! Ha! Mrs. Walters made it fun by playing some fun games like “What Has Changed?” sending children off to change something in their appearance or clothes for the children to guess. Oh, my goodness! The children loved this game!

Wednesday, Mrs. Walters painted their hand with brown paint and the children decorated the handprint with white sails, fluffy clouds and a blue ocean with lots of whoopee-dos! Mrs. Walters had a fun story to read to keep the children all entertained and laughing.

Thursday, they all made shark hats. Mrs. Walters once again had fun stories to read and keep the children happy. The shark hats were so darling. Miss Julie sent me several pictures with all the “sharks” growling! So fun! I didn’t even know sharks could growl! 

Shark hat tutorial here

We didn’t get a lot recorded, but I did get a few reports. While passing out cookie treats, He Who Must Not Be Named had someone come to the front of the line. “I don’t want to give her cookies! She’s mean to me!” Miss Julie assured him that it was OK to give her cookies. “But I don’t want to! She’s mean!” Ha!  We may have to dig a little deeper into this.  Ryder found a feather in the backyard during recess. Oh, that’s cool. Ryder said, “No, it’s not! It has guts on it!” Oooh! Toss that puppy! Where’s a wipe? Ha! And Chance said, “My baby is in my mom’s tummy!”, which made Mrs. Walters and Miss Julie giggle and raise an eyebrow! Don’t you just love four-year olds? They are the best!

Next week is Yellow Week, so be sure to wear something yellow.

Thank you for all your well wishes, your patience with me and faith and prayers on my husband’s behalf.

Much, much love and many thanks to our wonderful teachers taking such good care of things!

Love,

Mrs. McClure