Our PreSchool Blog

The boys and girls love vegetables…..well, painting with them! Today we read Up, Down, and Around by Katherine Ayres and talked about the different colors of vegetables and their names. Then the  children made vegetable prints with eggplants, peppers and broccoli! It was a fun new way to paint!

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!

Friday we read Up, Down and Around by Katherine Ayres . We discovered all kinds of different seeds just in time for Summer!  At small groups the boys and girls used their sorting skills and separated their own bag of seeds based on shape and size. Then they glued each seed onto their seed graph and was able to see how many of each seed they had. What a fun way to learn about seeds and sorting!

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!

With spring in full swing, we took time today to talk about rainbows! During group time we  read Planting a Rainbow  by Lois Ehlert and reviewed all the colors in the rainbow. Then the children went on a scavenger hunt looking for different objects that were red, orange, yellow, green, blue and purple! After recognizing all the colors in the rainbow, we fired up our fine motor skills and used Q-Tips to dot paint all the colors. The boys and girls did a great job painting a rainbow!

We put our lessons into practice today and REUSED our milk cartons to create a NEW bird feeder!  I would love some pictures to add to the blog of those great creations hanging in your tree!

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!

The final animal we added to our African study was the Dung Beetle…what a curious and icky creature!  Click the photo below to view a video of this insect in action.