Preschool 9/27

The theme this week is
Animals of the Forest

Letter: B
Numbers: 2 & 3
Color: Red

Circle Time
In circle time today we discussed forests, what kinds of animals live there, what their homes might look like, what our favorite forest animals are, etc.

I read 'Stranger in the Woods' and they pointed out what animals were in the book.

Centers

The kitchen seems to continuously be a favorite for them all. They love pretend cooking and fixing food for each other.

They stacked blocks as high as they could and we counted them as they put them on. We did some butterfly sorting (large, medium, small) and some color matching with bee's and flowers.

They stacked blocks as high as they could and we counted them as they put them on.

Snack

We had graham crackers with strawberry cream cheese frosting on top. Also some apples & apple juice. They gobbled those crackers right up! :)

Outside Play

I've been having issues with outside time because all they want to do it swing...and none of them can swing by themselves...and there's only 3 swings. So I told them this week that I will give them 2 big (underdog!) pushes and then they need to swing by themselves or ask a friend to push them or swing alone on their tummy or find something else to do.

This totally worked! They did ask for more pushes after the 2 but I just said 'No more' and they were fine. Tatum helped push Megan and Lola. Megan pushed Lola and Isaiah swung on his tummy. Then after a few minutes of all that, they all found something else to do - ride bikes, do the slide, kick the soccer ball. It was wonderful and they were able to burn off some much needed energy. :)

The one exception I made was the tire swing because none of them can push it while they are sitting on it. And if someone gets off to push, it's impossible for them to get back on once it's going!

Art

Owl headbands!

Stamping patterns. I stamped the first 4 stamps to get the pattern going and then they had to finish the last 2 boxes by figuring out the pattern. They all did excellent at this!

Then they wanted to stamp some more so we turned their papers over and let them at it.