Furry Friends

We learned about those furry friends we see around our neighborhoods and we heard all about Max, Stella and Minnie Mouse at preschool this week (the children's pets). We watched the rain and made predictions about when it would stop and start. We learned a new game, "Doggy, doggy where's your bone" that just maybe will replace the reigning favorite game "Duck, duck goose". We reviewed the letters Q and R and practiced using one-to-one correspondence when counting as we counted a lot around preschool. We learned the song "Bingo" and danced to the song, "Oh I want to be a dog". What a great week!

Dogs play Frisbee and catch balls, which is exactly what these little "puppies" did.

It takes a lot of bones to feed all the dogs.

The bones were a perfect manipulative for this theme. They counted them, sorted them, graphed them, put the letters written on the bones together to form the words "dog" and "cat" and they also got to toss them into the dog bowl.

Playing veterinarian.

Counting out the whiskers on the cats. .

The cats somehow morphed into aliens and they began counting the number of eyes and noses on their creatures.

The children created this "castle" and wanted to eat snack inside of it. And since it was so nice outside (and those days are few and far between) how could I say no? Their creativity and problem solving skills are amazing!

Working on their cat ears.

Cute cats!

After the cats were all ready we went on a walk and talked about all the dogs we saw - no cats were prowling about though. We discussed how animals communicate without talking and how their bodies do some pretty great things to protect them. I know my little guy keeps asking about getting a real dog now, which is pretty impossible with the allergies this family has. It was fun though to pretend for a week that puppies and kitties were bounding about the house.