Valentine's Day

Happy Valentine's Day!  The children and I had so much fun celebrating the good friendships we have here at preschool.  We sang fun songs, investigated nature outdoors, ate delicious snacks, talked about cupid and all the ways we show love to others, created special valentines for our families, read some great stories about friendship and love and so much more!

 Kooper matching uppercase and lowercase letters.

 Gideon learning to cut out hearts.

 Thomas identifying the numeral with the correct number of hearts.

 Abie saying "I Love You" in sign language.

 Just love those cowboy boots!

 Camden creating a gluey, glittery, colorful, work of art.

 Happy 4th Birthday Camden!

 These clever children created a great game that involved the hose. Their use of interpersonal communication is improving tremendously!

 What's a party without balloons!

 Abie getting her envelope ready for the valentine exchange.

 Camden getting ready to shout, "Bingo!"

 Avah sending lots of letter during playtime.

The kiddos so very excited to share their valentines with each other!

What's the Weather

The weather never fails to disappoint in February- it changes constantly and gives us the perfect opportunity to talk about the world around us.  The children loved learning about air and clouds, rain and storms and of course sunny days too.  

 Camden sponge painting his windsock.

 Puzzles, puzzles and more puzzles!

 Enjoying the beautiful weather outside.

 One of the ways we learned about air and what it can do- keep a tissue in the air!

 Abie enjoying dancing with scarves

 One of our many science experiments about the weather.  This one taught them why it rains.

 Abie playing dress-up.  I love her pocket stuffed with money!

 Kooper practicing his writing

 Lined up and ready to go home

 It rained letters in their name and they had to find them and spell out their name.

Playing a rousing game of thunder & lightening tag.  

Animal Adventures

 We had so much fun this week learning about animals.  Tuesday, we did our normal preschool day backwards.  The children got a kick out of it and it was a nice change of pace for a day.  We talked a lot about various animals and their habitats, we learned about unusual animals and discussed the difference between a mammal and a reptile.  We played zookeeper, made all sorts of noises and movements that somewhat resembled animals, created animal books and puppets and read some fabulous books about animals.  After all that animal business I think a trip to the zoo is in order soon!  

 Play dough fun with animals

 Secret in a sack!

 Dancing like animals

 Observing the animal charades game

 Creating animal books

 Working on letters, numbers & patterns with zoo animals

 Acting out "Good Night Gorilla"

 

 Hula Hoop fun

 Getting ready for the puppet show