For whatever reason, it's easier to upload one at a time. Scoll down to the next post for pictures of the morning class and the explanation of what we did. Cute, creative kiddos!
Tuesday, September 27, 2011
First Letter of Name Activity
This is a fun, creative thing I did with the students today. We talk about our names, and the letters, and I give each child a piece of paper with the first letter of their name traced big enough to fill up the paper. Then we get out our box of "beautiful junk" and they decorate away! It's so fun to see it!
(Morning class.)
(Morning class.)
Thursday, September 15, 2011
Colors Week
We had a great second week of school! I feel like the students are really starting to get the hang of the "school" routines and our schedule--fantastic!
We enjoyed painting this week as part of our Colors theme. The students really seem to enjoy painting. We will definitely be doing it again! It was interesting to see the students' reactions to all the different paint colors. Some students would only use one color, or maybe two. Other students wouldn't stop painting until they had used nearly every color we had--more than 10!
With the colors theme, we also talked about our favorite colors, and also how the different colors can make us think of different things and feel different emotions--like yellow, for example, makes most people think of the sun, and we feel happy, where black reminds us of night or darkness.
Today we talked about color mixing, and we did an experiment to show how different colors mixed together make other colors. Then the students used sponges to paint with the colors red, yellow and green.
We also talked about our names and how they are shaped. Each student was given a paper with their name written on it, a Q-tip and a small cup of paint (their choice of color). Then they painted over their names with the paint. Again, a great fine motor skills activity and also helping with name recognition.
Thanks for sharing your wonderful children with me!
We enjoyed painting this week as part of our Colors theme. The students really seem to enjoy painting. We will definitely be doing it again! It was interesting to see the students' reactions to all the different paint colors. Some students would only use one color, or maybe two. Other students wouldn't stop painting until they had used nearly every color we had--more than 10!
With the colors theme, we also talked about our favorite colors, and also how the different colors can make us think of different things and feel different emotions--like yellow, for example, makes most people think of the sun, and we feel happy, where black reminds us of night or darkness.
Today we talked about color mixing, and we did an experiment to show how different colors mixed together make other colors. Then the students used sponges to paint with the colors red, yellow and green.
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| Two samples of the painting by afternoon class. |
We also talked about our names and how they are shaped. Each student was given a paper with their name written on it, a Q-tip and a small cup of paint (their choice of color). Then they painted over their names with the paint. Again, a great fine motor skills activity and also helping with name recognition.
Thanks for sharing your wonderful children with me!
Thursday, September 8, 2011
One more... and today's activities
No, I generally won't post every preschool day... but these were cute!
Today we read the book It Looked Like Spilt Milk by Charles G. Shaw. It's a fun book with predictable language, but it doesn't tell what "it" actually is until the end. Cute. Anyway. After we read the story, we made our own pictures by squishing white paint between a folded piece of blue paper. Then the students told me what their pictures looked like and I wrote it on the paper.
Another activity we did today was shaving cream. No matter the age, most students love this. A few students didn't like the messiness of this, which is just fine. We practiced using our pointer fingers to make shapes and different lines (zigzag, straight, squiggly). Things like this are good for fine motor development.
And I found another paper plate face lurking in with the puzzles! It's Vivian's on the top right!
Looking forward to next week! And just fyi, I am planning to paint both days next week, so dress your child appropriately! :)
Today we read the book It Looked Like Spilt Milk by Charles G. Shaw. It's a fun book with predictable language, but it doesn't tell what "it" actually is until the end. Cute. Anyway. After we read the story, we made our own pictures by squishing white paint between a folded piece of blue paper. Then the students told me what their pictures looked like and I wrote it on the paper.
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| Parker: It looked like a butterfly, but it wasn't a butterfly. |
And I found another paper plate face lurking in with the puzzles! It's Vivian's on the top right!
Looking forward to next week! And just fyi, I am planning to paint both days next week, so dress your child appropriately! :)
Wednesday, September 7, 2011
First Day
We had a fantastic first day of preschool! I hope your children were as excited as I was! I enjoyed spending more time with the students and getting to know them more. I think we are in for a great year! I guess I was nervous, because I forgot to do Happy Grams with the classes on Tuesday--sorry! I will for sure get to them Thursday.
One of the projects we did on Tuesday was to create our faces using paper plates, googly eyes, glue, yarn and glitter glue. It was fun to see what the students came up with. Children are so creative! (P.S. Sorry to the parents/students whose faces aren't here--I tried to convince all the students to leave their projects, but a few of them "escaped!" Sorry!)
One of the projects we did on Tuesday was to create our faces using paper plates, googly eyes, glue, yarn and glitter glue. It was fun to see what the students came up with. Children are so creative! (P.S. Sorry to the parents/students whose faces aren't here--I tried to convince all the students to leave their projects, but a few of them "escaped!" Sorry!)
*Click on each of the collages to see the pictures a little bigger!*
Something else that I love about children is that they are instantly friends. Adults can sit in a room for hours together and then leave without "making" friends. To children, they are automatically friends! I love it!
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