Showing posts with label Emma. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Emma. Show all posts
Thursday, June 10, 2010
"Picnickin"
The older girls made a list of all the things they wanted to do this summer. It included a request for Picnics..."Lots!". So I guess this is the first official picnic of the season. Yes it was 90 degrees outside. Yes we had a picnic anyway. It's a great way to get the kiddos to drink their milk! ;)
Sunday, April 25, 2010
Snowman Building
OK, so I know it's April and probably not Kosher to post snow pictures, but since it's supposed to snow again this week....what the heck!
The kids LOVE to play in the snow. We try to go out as often as we can. On this day we had the perfect snow for a snowman! It was great fun to jump in there with them and bring Frosty to life in our own backyard!
The kids LOVE to play in the snow. We try to go out as often as we can. On this day we had the perfect snow for a snowman! It was great fun to jump in there with them and bring Frosty to life in our own backyard!
Saturday, December 5, 2009
November in Review
November was the perfect month to talk about fall. We learned about how fall is kind of funny. Sometimes it warm, sometimes it's cold. We went on nature walks and looked for signs of fall, gathering leaves for counting and sorting. Did you realize even your preschoolers can start picking up on math concepts if presented correctly? One activity we did included putting small numbers on paper plates (1-5) and letting the kids put the correct number of leaves on the plates. We also talked about Thanksgiving and the things we are grateful for. The apple turkeys were a huge hit. We also made turkeys from handprints and indian headbands while talking about the first Thanksgiving Dinner. We even did our very own "parachute pow-wow" in honor of the first celebration. The kids love moving to different types of music and the indian drum beat was especially fun.
Friday, October 30, 2009
Snow Day!
As anyone here in Cedar knows we got the first snow of the season this week. What a fantastic time for kids! One of the first things they asked to do that day was play out in the snow. So...we did! As you can see they had a great time. The little ones spent most of their time making tracks everywhere they could, playing "king of the hill" and chasing Koko through the snow. Oh and sampling the newly fallen cuisine was also a favorite.
The older kids went out after school and immediately set to stockpiling snowballs and setting up forts for battle. They were out there for over an hour, taking only a short hot chocolate break.
The snow's mostly gone now for this week anyway. But what a fun hint of what is to come!
Monday, October 26, 2009
All about the Weather, October 13 - 29
As some of you know we had Swine Flu around here this month and so preschool go thrown off track a little! Despite that we did manage to learn a little about weather over the past few weeks. We talked about thunder and lighting, clouds, rain, sunshine, snow (of course!) and wind. Below you can see us making our rain sticks. We also did wind paintings by blows globs of paint across our paper through straws. The cloud matching game taught us that clouds are shaped differently and helped us look for patterns and matches. We made rain on the floor and swayed in the wind like trees. We learned about the different types of clothing we wear in different types of weather and even got a hands on experience with the snow.
Thursday, October 15, 2009
C is for Cow, D is for Duck, Sept 28 - Oct 9
These two weeks we spent learning all about the farm and what FUN that was! We learned about what happens on a farm and what the farmers do. We spent lots of time learning about farm animals: cows, horses, chickens, ducks, pigs and sheep. Some of the activities we did these two weeks included:
Other fun things you could do at home to reinforce what we learned at school:
*Have your child dictate a "cow tale" or a "horse tale" to you. Have them tell a story about a cow or a horse and write it on a cow or a horse shape. Verbal and creative thinking skills will be reinforced with this project!
*Sorting seeds: Do you have seeds leftover from the garden or flower beds? Mix them together and let your child sort through them with tweezers. Have them sort them by size, shape, color or type into muffin tins or another divided container. This helps develop great pre-math skills.
Painting with Buttermilk and Chalk (dipping the chalk in buttermilk before you color with it makes it stick better to the paper)
Making our own Scarecrow (stuffing newpaper into a "farmer's" clothes)
Acting like animals
Listening to animal sounds and guessing what they were
Making butter (take whipping cream and shake it like crazy until butter forms. It has to be at room temperature to work though!)
Making A Horse of a different color (Pinning clothes pin legs on various colored horse shapes)
Played with different types of feathers
Walked like Chickens and Ducks
Made Patterns out of Animal Tracks
Painted our own farm scene on carboard then built on it with blocks and play animals
Sorted out which animals live on the farm and which don't
Deviled Eggs and Pigs in a Blanket
Drop the Feather Game
The hit of the week however was the SONGS! We learned Old MacDonald had a Farm, B-I-N-G-O and the Farmer in the Dell. The Chicken Dance was also a HUGE hit! Daily requests for singing time almost first thing every morning!
Drop the feather, also provided great opportunity for feeling different TYPES of feathers.
The Chicken Dance
Even the little ones love circle time!
Working on our scarecrow
Painting our farm.
Other fun things you could do at home to reinforce what we learned at school:
*Have your child dictate a "cow tale" or a "horse tale" to you. Have them tell a story about a cow or a horse and write it on a cow or a horse shape. Verbal and creative thinking skills will be reinforced with this project!
*Sorting seeds: Do you have seeds leftover from the garden or flower beds? Mix them together and let your child sort through them with tweezers. Have them sort them by size, shape, color or type into muffin tins or another divided container. This helps develop great pre-math skills.
*Clop, Clop: Provide different types of blocks and a plank of wood. Let them experiment to find the best "clopping" sound.
*Pig tails: Make piggies tails out of pipe cleaners by shaping around a pencil.
*Paper Plate Pigs: Make pig masks from paper plates, use small paper cups or section of TP tubes for snouts.
*Pretty in Pink: Let the kids mix red and white paint with their fingers to make pink and then paint with it.
Friday, September 11, 2009
A is for Apple, Sept 8 -11
This week we learned all about the letter A and had our own little "apple fest" to go along with it. We had a great time measuring how many "apples" tall everyone was, charting the results, making apple pigs and doing a variety of apple art projects.
Want to try this cool foil project at home? Take aluminum foil and "paint" it with Elmer's glue and food coloring mixed together to your liking. Let it dry overnight. As it dries it will take on this cool shiny appearance that looks more milky when you first paint it. For this project we cut it into little squares and let the kid glue it onto apple shapes, but there are SO many things you could do with it with a little imagination.
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