Our PreSchool Blog

We are enjoying the wonders of winter and the color white through sensory experiences.  Sensory activities facilitate exploration and naturally encourage children to use scientific processes while they play, create, investigate and explore.

Shaving cream on the tables provided an interesting textured sensory activity.  It also provides an empty canvas to practice drawing shapes, letters, and lines.

Our sensory bin and discovery tubs provided different textures and items to sort and pour.

Maurice Sendak’s Chicken Soup with Rice provided an activity to use all of our senses including taste!  We read the book, danced to the video with song by Carole King, and tasted chicken soup with rice!

Along with our winter themed activities, we are learning about “responsibility”. To help teach this, the students each have a classroom job they are responsible for weekly! They have really taken ownership of these responsibilities. We are promoting independence and autonomy in the classroom!

Cutting icicles (we brought a real one in from outside to observe and touch)!

On Friday in Preschool, we covered our table with shaving cream and worked on pre-writing! Sensory play supports language, development, cognitive growth, motor skills, problem solving skills and social interaction!

Our first week in Preschool Prep has been a blast! We have been learning our way around the classroom, playing with new centers and meeting new friends!

We started the day by signing in using finger paint instead of our usual pencils.

Then we all went outside to watch the Mentos Diet Coke Geyser!

We hit the playground for unusual painting fun on the slide.

We created a rainbow of fizzy bubbling eruptions with baking soda and watercolor vinegar!

We took a new approach to egg decorating by marbleizing shaving cream and water color paints then creating a print by pressing our watercolor paper into the cool, messy creation.