Our PreSchool Blog

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!

Writing our name is a skill that we, as adults, use every day.  The children have been working hard all year to form their letters correctly and in the right order.  Today, the boys and girls continued to practice forming the correct letters when they used white crayon to write their name, and then paint over it with water color. Instantly, the children could see their name in white appear through the paint!

The kids have been working hard on the artwork that will be used in the Fashion Show on March 11th.  Just a sneak peek!

We studied the artist, Franz Marc, with Ms. Penny and tried our hand at our own colorful creations!  They are a great addition to our Great Barrier Reef!

Today we had a special guest: Ms. Penny!  ms. Penny made our classroom colorful by teaching the children about Franz Marc.  Franz Marc was a German painter who contributed to the German Expressionist Movement.  The boys and girls did a fantastic job drawing the outline of their picture, then using watercolors to make a beautiful masterpiece!

We had a ball on Thursday during small groups.  Ms. Lori let us create an arctic scene from Greenland with homemade puffy paint and homemade textured sand paint.  The kids enjoyed adding the puffy fur onto the Polar Bear to help keep it warm.  During reading groups, after reading our readers, we played a Cookie Crunch Sight Word game on the Smartboard to polish our sight word recognition.  Then, we used our white crayons on black paper to practice our letter formation and orientation of our current sight words.  Watch out Kindergarten….here we come!

Some like their vegetables steamed, some like them raw.  How about covered in paint?!  Today, the children practiced the letter V by tracing it with vegetable stamps.  While practicing the /v/ sound, we also came up with words that begin with the letter V: vegetable, violin, vet, very, and everyone’s favorite…vvvrooooooommm!

We used roller paints today to write our new sight word…make.  It was a fun way to write our new sight word!