Yup, it's been a month since I've updated about preschool. We had to take a break from preschool when I came down with appendicitis. It wasn't fun and I would much rather have been doing preschool!! I'm feeling better now and we are back into preschool mode!
Last week(ish) in preschool we did weather and the letter W. I've been focusing more on the theme and all the activities center mostly around the theme. Maybe when I run out of themes I'll focus on letters more than themes. But I kind of like the theme centered activities- really learning a lot about a certain topic.
We colored a w page
Read some weather books (Storm is Coming became one of Ellie's favorites and she read it every night until we had to return it to the library).
We had Goldfish (because they swim in Water) and nilla Wafers and Water for our snacks.
We colored umbrellas and glued "raindrops" to them.
We had a snowball fight - with cotton balls. One of the favorite activities!!
We dressed up in cold weather clothing and danced around.
Colored another W page.
Read "Little Cloud" by Eric Carle and made our clouds fluffy with cotton balls (which may or may not have been recycled from the snowball fight).
Our weather dress up clothes - tried them on and talked about what kind of clothes we wear in different weather.
Made kites (I cut out a kite shape from printer paper and tied a ribbon on the end) and flew them in the Wind (thanks to the box fan!)
Also investigated things that the wind will blow away - they can't be too heavy, we found out!
Did some W rubbings - toothpicks, straws, and sandpaper.
More books
More books
We also made Windsocks (which I have no picture). They were toilet paper rolls with ribbon tied on the bottom. They were a huge pain and I did a bunch of work and none of the kids really liked them. In case you were thinking about doing the same thing....
Next week.....Apples and the letter A!!!
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