What's Cooking?

The delicious aromas coming from my house on Tuesday morning were created by your kids! They did a superb job working together to measure and mix ingredients, shape cookies, roll out pizza dough and top pizza. The end result was quite tasty. Preschoolers typically enjoy helping out in the kitchen which is like a classroom all in itself. I hope you take advantage of the many opportunities (and great memories) to cook with your children often.

The Chef's ready to get to work and fill the table with yummy food.

Cracking eggs for the cookies. The children unanimously decided that cooking cookies was the best start to cooking day.
Both eggs cracked and in the bowl without a single eggshell!

Even chefs need to take a break from all that cooking.

Pounding the pizza dough. If you noticed flour in your children's hair it is because the flour transformed into a flurry of snow.

Kyler rolling out the pizza dough. They all did such a great job of taking turns and helping each other out during cooking.

Their masterpieces.

So much going on at the end of the day- coloring, cutting, journal writing, and a waitress taking orders! Anything and everything can happen during preschool.

The pilgrims begin their journey across the mighty ocean waters!

Native Americans eager to help the Pilgrims out.

The children loved snack time where they got to create turkeys, helicopters, soccer players, and boats. I think they could have done this all morning.

Building the pilgrim town of Plymouth.

More practice with fine motor skills. These are all dry now and should be in backpacks soon.

Happy Thanksgiving!

ROAR!

There was lots of roaring going on at preschool this week as the children learned all about the world of dinosaurs.

After a dino hunt the children discovered a mama dinosaur sitting on her nest of eggs (yummy chocolate eggs that we just had to sample). Then they discovered the preschool room had been overtaken by numerous dinosaurs!

I love the expression on Kylers face- as if he was the T-Rex.

My idea was to have the children paint the dinosaur then use their hands to make the stegosaurus spikes. The children's idea was to cover every square inch of the paper with paint. Looked good to me so out went the hand prints and in came the paint brushes.

Kyler got lots of practice on his fine motor skills covering his dinosaur.

Day2 of dinosaurs brought even more roaring and dinosaur stomping. The rhythm sticks were lots of fun to use with our Dinosaur marching songs. The children's improvement in finding the simple rhythms of the music has increased dramatically. Not only are they following me, they are creating their own routines and following each other.

Again! Again! That's what I kept hearing as the volcano erupted over and over again. Those poor dinosaurs!

Making fossils out of salt dough gave them a good opportunity to strengthen the muscles that help with fine motor skills. Plus, it was lots of fun to make dinosaur footprints everywhere.

Sampling some herbivore snacks at our Brachiosaurus picnic.

I'm sure the entire neighborhood hear the squeals of delight when a fossil was discovered by our little paleontologists.

Dino Ball fun turned into T-Rex tag. These children sure are fast and catch me everytime

I love teaching your little ones and this week was no exception. We had so much fun discovering the world of dinosaurs together. Sometimes a week just seems too short for some themes so we may just have to revisit the world of dinosaurs again.

Five Senses

We spent the week learning about our five senses- a week that reminds me how amazing our bodies are and how perfectly they are created so that we can learn to the fullest. We tasted, smelled, touched, saw, and heard many new and different things.

These boys become so engaged with building new things and trying to outdo each other. Some pretty tall towers were built.

Porsche is really becoming quite the little puzzler girl. She chooses a new puzzle to do each week- each more challenging.


Storytime! Photo compliments of Gideon.

I can't believe this is our first time playing with play dough. These kids loved it and could have done it all day long.

I hope you've had a chance to play your five senses memory game the children made. We played a round or two together and they sure are quick with it. Notice on the chalkboard that Porsche wrote her name!

What would a day about sight be without some crazy slinky eyes!

They were curious about my glasses and why I wear them so I gave them some old glasses so they could experience the world as blurry as I do. They quickly realized their own eyes are fantastic.

Kyler loved using his eyes and the binoculars to see things in a new way.

So this wasn't a super picture week- sorry. I often become so engrossed in the children I forget to snap a picture. It was a super week though. I love the mornings when they get so excited to see their friends and run to the door to greet each other. These friendships and the social skills they are learning will help form the foundation of good friendships throughout life. Yeah for preschool buddies!!