Our PreSchool Blog

Warm weather means more fun on the playground. Ms. Cally fills the outdoor sensory tub with all kinds of fun for exploring and discovering. This week she microwaved bars of ivory soap to make big fluffy clouds. Then the children had fun experimenting with different shape cutters and tools. It made our playground smell nice and clean too!

Our theme this month is WATER! This week we are focusing on ponds and pond life. We have read two books: “10 Littler Rubber Ducks” and “Wide-Mouthed Frog” {pop up book}. Today we did a lot with frogs:

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In this group, the children were handed a certain amount (from 1 to 10) of frog erasers; they counted them; then they had to jump {like a frog} onto the lily pad that had the corresponding number on it. This activity’s objective was to promote their counting and number recognition skills.

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In this group, the children made hand print frogs! We read the book “Wide-Mouthed Frog” pop-up book today, so this art experience went right along with it!

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Mother’s Day surprises 🙂

We dove into our new theme for the month: WATER! This week we are focusing on ponds and animals in ponds. We are reading the book: “10 Little Rubber Ducks.” Afterward, the children were able to play with little rubber ducks in water with soap and sponges. They enjoyed this sensory experience as they washed and scrubbed the ducks.

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Last week we finished off our bug theme with some fun small groups:

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In this group, the children worked on their fine motor skills and transfer skills. They had to be “bees” putting honey (colored water in a cup) into their “honeycombs” (bowl) using little droppers.

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In this group, we kept our bug theme by having the children review their letters via swatting bugs. Ms. Diana would tell them a letter to look for, and when they found it they had to hit it with a fly swatter.

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This group did not follow the bug theme…but it helped the children practice their number recognition skills. Ms. Kate would say a number, and they would have to locate the number and stamp it with the dot stamper. There were multiple prints of each number, so they would have to locate them all and stamp them all with the same color stamper.