This morning has been busy! While we were outside we took a break from playing to collect dried green beans from the garden. We’ll store them so we can plant them next year. It was a great activity for working on some fine motor skills as we had to peel the shells and pinch the tiny beans to put them in our container. For story time we read “Ten Apples Up on Top”. This will be the third time we…
This morning after a nice long session of outside play we read “Chicka Chicka 123”. Then the older kiddos practiced using scissors and glue to make their own number trees. The little ones had some sensory fun with our alphabet squish bag, and then we all enjoyed some creative time with play dough.
Late post! I’m keeping with our ABC/123 theme this week, yesterday we read “The Racecar Alphabet”. We then held an alphabet derby (car letter E was our champion), and practiced matching upper and lower case letters with a car lot file folder game.
Our theme this week is ABC/123–a good time to review our letters and numbers. This was a super fun group activity the kids really enjoyed. And since we had a smaller crew today, it was perfect. Each kiddo got a good 5 turns in so keeping them engaged was a breeze. First I got a big pot ready and filled the bottom with pom poms and alphabet beads and water to make it more fun. We sat in a circle…
We’re back to circle time! It’s been a fun, care-free summer but now we’re ready to get back to our daily circle time, books, and projects. I’m taking a different approach this year, rather than building our activities for the week around a letter of the alphabet I’m using a different theme every week. This opens up a wider variety of possibilities to promote literacy, math, and motor skills that will help us get ready for preschool and kindergarten. Of…
For Earth Day we read Curious George Plants a Tree, and (one of my favorites) The Water Hole. The older kiddos made paintings of the earth and the babies got to play with paint in a mess free, sensory way. We played with playdoh and plastic animals, making tracks in the playdoh, and we talked about our favorite ones. After circle time was done we watched an episode of one of our favorite shows, Ask The Storybots, and learned all…
This week’s focus was the letter J, and we had fun with it! We made jaguars, jellyfish and jet planes, we did jellyfish math and learned new songs and dances, and we played some new file folder games. We used pony beads and play doh to form letters, and we watched our peas sprout in the garden.
What a fun week! We spent some time in the garden planting peas and talking about spring, we read lots of fun books (it was hard to pick a favorite this week), did colorful Easter crafts, turned ourselves into bunnies and of course had an egg hunt to close out the week!
Another cold, rainy week except for today, so we are definitely looking forward to some sunshine next week! This week we learned about the letter I i and the number 9. We made insects, iguanas, and inchworms; we used playdoh to make insects as well; we colored and painted with dab markers, and we played with ice. Even the little ones got in on the ice drawings with us. We aren’t moving on to letter Jj just yet – next…
We’ve had a couple weeks of sunshine and warmer weather here and were expecting a rainy, cold day today. So, to close out the week we had a PJ day and popcorn party! Story Time and Circle Time were popcorn themed this morning. I created some educational popcorn games and we played with painting popcorn. The 2 year olds LOVED our popcorn color match game! After nap we ate popcorn while watching a movie. The kids picked Big Hero 6….
