Our PreSchool Blog

Last week we had our Get Up & Move Play Date and we had so much fun!  We did Obstacle Courses, had some fun with Water Day Wednesday, played some tossing games, had a bounce house, and did a lot of dancing!  We ended our week with a fun party and had a special cupcake for snack!  It was such a great week!

We had such a great time during our Pirates and Princesses playdate series. We had discovery bins for our pirates to explore the black pirate beaches, complete with pirate ships and buried treasure! For our princesses, we had the Queen’s jewels and Cinderella’s glass slipper!

Walk the plank, get a stamp! Our pirates did a great job trying not to fall off of the “plank” and into the “water” with all of our sea creatures! 🙂

Tic Toc Croc ring toss!

We had a Frozen ice experiment using glittery ice cubes with secret jewels inside. Put the “magic potion” on the cubes and watch them fizz and magically melt away!

Party day! Complete with costumes, cupcakes, a piñata, and balloons!

We’re so glad our Princesses and Pirates joined us for such a fun week of playdates!

Howdy, ya’ll! Our 2-3 year old summer playdate series started off wonderfully, with fun on the farm!

Throughout the week, we talked about all of the different farm animals you find on a farm, and what we get from farms. They were great farmers, and even got to “milk” a pretend cow 🙂

Outside fun with the parachute and popping up the beach balls!

Pigs on the farm day! Complete with pin the tail on the piggy and a “pigs in the mud” snack with chocolate pudding and pink marshmallows

Of course we had our weekly visit from the Kona Ice Truck!

Cool Critters came to visit us one day and we got to meet and interact with some different animals!

Ducks in the pond using water beads, which is a great sensory tool, and rubber duckies

Friday party day! What’s a party without cupcakes, piñatas and balloons!?

Thanks for sending your kids to play with us this summer! See you at the next playdate 🙂

In Preschool Prep, we were able to explore the inside of different fruits and vegetables!  First, we made predictions of what we might find inside each fruit or vegetable. Then, we cut them open and made observations about the foods.  We were able to try a taste of each type of fruit and vegetable at snack time!

The lemons were so sour!!

We have lots of great bakers in our preschool prep classroom! We all worked together to make homemade chocolate chip cookies that we were able to eat for snack! Yumm 🙂

This month we have been doing many hands on activities in the classroom! Check out some of these fun activities below!

-We completed a class measuring project!  Each person was measured with yarn that was displayed on the board!

-April’s science focus is on bugs and insects.  We had a full insect day where the kids were able to color insects, dig for insects, read about insects and act like insects!

-We did a fun gross motor/ letter/ shape activity! Each student took turns picking a letter out of my bowl. They had to tell me its name and sound.  Then, they had to get the letter to “Marvin (The Starvin) Alphabet Monster.  The tricky part was that they had to take a specific shape path to get to him! (Ex: All green circles).

We had so much fun celebrating St. Patrick’s Day in the Preschool Classroom!  We did a fun art activity where we learned about the order of colors in the rainbow and painted using Q-tips!

A Leprechaun snuck onto our playground and hid gold EVERYWHERE! We got to take a pot and find some gold coins that he left!

For snack, we made rainbows out of fruit loops and marshmallows.  They were so delicious!

To practice number order, we ordered our shamrocks from 1 to 10!

To explore more ways to paint, we got to paint with ice cubes last week!  It was a very fun activity and I think that quite a few of our students would have sat and done it all morning!

One of our preschool math goals this month was sorting.  We have been sorting all sorts of things; hearts by size, colors, shapes, and for this activity, we sorted letters.  All letters are made up of lines.  Some have straight lines like A, L and T.  Some letters like O and S have curvy lines.  And some letters use both kinds of lines such as B, D, and R.  There were a lot more letters that used both kinds of lines we discovered!  We looked at each of our letters and decided which category they all fit into and sorted them that way!

One of our art exploration activities this month was to paint on foil.  We discovered that it made the colors very bright and we had such a fun time with this activity!