Our PreSchool Blog

We’ve had quite an exciting week of COOKING! The children loved making strawberry jam, pancakes, and carrots with hummus! We also created caterpillars in a jar to go along with Eric Carl’s book “The Very Hungry Caterpillar.” Children enjoyed playing with the colorful pasta in the sensory table. This week, the children brought home a rolling pin and play dough to practice their cooking skills.

Making strawberry jam…

Making carrots and hummus…

Making pancake batter…

Making caterpillars…

We had another day full of activities and fun! Our focus for the day was “jumping!” –And LOTS of it! Today, we brought out the bouncy house! It was an instant hit!! We sang the 5 Little Monkeys Jumping on the Bed and did a craft related to the song/book. We enjoyed watermelon for our special snack for the day. Our art activity for the day was making monkeys with footprints! The children laughed about having their feet painted!

We had a GREAT day today! Lots of fun and excitement! The children were so excited to see that our sensory table had sand and dinosaurs in it! Definitely a treat for them! We painted with golf balls by shaking them inside of a pitcher. Our special snack for the day was popsicles! yum yum YUM! We had fun with BEACH BALLS outside, too! Check out the photos from our day:

Today we started the first day of our SUMMER CAMP! Yay! The children were excited to see that our sandbox has new sand and toys. It was definitely a hit today! They also enjoyed playing at the water table! –Definitely an excellent way to cool off while having fun! Miss Kate introduced the children to our new friend: “Sunny the Summer Camp Dog!” He was a part of whole group read aloud time this morning. The children LOVE him!! We also had a blast painting bubble wrap and printing it on paper! At the easel, children were able to experiment with sticky paper and small pompoms. We enjoyed some tasty muffins for snack time. The children were delighted to sing along and dance with Miss Sarah as she played guitar during music/movement time. Overall, we had a great first day, and we are looking forward to more fun and excitement tomorrow!

This week during group we have been reading the book Fish Eyes. The children love interacting and counting the fish as Ms. Bree-anna turns each page. The boys and girls took turns placing numbers by the matching fish.

Last week, the Toddlers learned about the letter L. They used their fine motor skills to pinch and grip the small licorice bites as they placed them on the letter L. They did a great job working in teams of two!

Throughout the month of April, the Toddlers will be learning about things that fly. We will talk bugs, birds, airplanes, and rockets. All of our centers have been switched out to match our new theme! We even have a few bumble bees hanging from our ceiling. The boys and girls have enjoyed exploring their new room!

The Toddlers are having a blast exploring at the sensory tub this month. It is filled with (Easter) grass, tongs, and lots of bugs! The boys and girls used their fine motor skills to pull out the insects hidden in the grass. They love to tell us about all of the different bugs they find!

During small groups this month we have been working on building and strengthening our fine motor skills. This week the boys and girls practiced putting pipe cleaning into a matching colored hole on top of an oatmeal jar. The children are doing a great job reviewing the colors of the rainbow!

This month the Toddlers have been going over the difference between hard and soft. Each day at group time, we look around the room for objects that are soft and objects that are hard. Today during small groups, the boys and girls explored pom poms, sand, pebbles, and macaroni noodles. Together we talked about which items were hard and which were soft.