Our PreSchool Blog

Today was all about strawberries! We read The Little Mouse, The Red Ripe Strawberry and The Big Hungry Bear by Don and Audrey Wood. The children had a chance to make their own strawberry jam! They helped add the strawberries, the sugar and the lemon juice and then mash it all up! We hope you enjoy it at home! Next the boys and girls were able to paint with their hands to make a strawberry print! They had a ton of fun getting messy!

It’s hard to believe that the school year has come to and end.  It wouldn’t be complete without some special time to enjoy our friends, favorite activities and watching movies. We had a memorable last two days in our PJ’s!

All week we’ve been having fun talking about vegetables and cooking with them. Today instead of cooking with veggies, we are painting with them! The children took their turns pressing broccoli  in brown paint, then using their fingers to make cherry blossoms on the tree! Their art work turned out great!

Another cooking day is here! Today we read If you give a Moose a Muffin by Laura Numeroff and talked about cooking at home. The boys and girls did a great job adding the ingredients and helping to mix it all together. The children really enjoyed making these yummy Carrot Muffins!

Summer has yet to make it’s official arrival, however, the weather has fooled us!  To kick off the season to come, we made Summer Fruit Pizza.  This delicious, kid friendly recipe was a blast to make, and even more fun to eat!

Summer Fruit Pizza:

Pillsburry pizza dough

Cream Cheese

Blueberries, strawberries, kiwi, bananas, and mandarin oranges

Directions:

1. Bake pizza crust according to package directions

2. Cut up fruit while pizza dough is cooking

3. Spread cooked dough with cream cheese, and then top with cut up fruit

Today we reviewed our shapes by using them to make art! This activity helps the children to improve their hand muscles for writing skills as well their color sense. The children love to paint!

Today we  read Growing Vegetable Soup by Lois Ehlert.  After reading about vegetable soup we made our own! The children helped pour in the vegetables, add the water and stir it up. I hope everyone enjoyed our yummy vegetable soup!

Today we read Jump Frog Jump by Robert Kalan.  As a group we worked on patterning with lily pads and leap frogs. We strenghtened our math skills during small groups and made our own frog patterns. Be sure to check backpacks for our fun frog craft!

Today, we continued to work on our numbers, focusing on 11-20.  As the children rolled the die, they turned the number number they rolled into a higher number by placing a one in front of it.  For example, if they rolled a six, it would become sixteen.  This was a new and exciting way to practice our numbers!

We also practiced our number recognition and one-to-one correspondence.  The boys and girls picked a number, then put the corresponding frogs onto their lily pads.