Thursday, January 27, 2022

We had the BEST Thursday at preschool!

Can you guess what holiday we chose to dress for today?!?!?

A few friends improved their sharing skills while creating with magnatiles!

A tiny tower in the works by Micah...

Something was brewing in the kitchen...

It was time to see what we remember about positional words!  I had 5 cards, each with a different positional word.  Friends got to "pick a card, any card".  I would read the card aloud and he/she would place his/her body in relation to Mia, our messenger for the day!

Happy 1/2 Birthday Mia! Thank you for sharing your special day with us!

Surprise...we enjoyed a "Winter Wonderland" ran by Zion's Student Council...

Time for a little "ice skating"...

Snuggle up to read a book...

Warm up with some hot chocolate and marshmallows...

Then, of course, FREEZE dancing...

Last week we searched for pictures of different kinds of boats on the smart board. We noticed there were some things that were the same, but each boat actually looked quite different. After exploring each boat, each friend drew a picture of the boat they would like to make.  

Finally, today each friend (not here yesterday) got to make a boat out of aluminum foil...

Then we tested..."Will your boat float?"  YES...they ALL floated!!!

Finally...we asked, "How many pennies will your boat hold before it sinks?" Our boats held anywhere from 3 to 73 pennies before sinking!!!

We noticed that the bigger the bottom of the boat, especially if it had side walls, the more pennies it would hold!

Time for small groups (centers)!

With Mrs. Mudd we worked on part 1 of a creation!  We each drew our self portrait.  Each friend then finished the following 2 statements...

My eyes are ________

My hair is _________

This activity helped improve symbolic development, early writing/drawing, small motor control, and knowledge of self!

Then on to part 2, cutting out snowflakes to add to his/her creation! Improving early scissor skills.

We improved our early scissor skills cutting out paper hearts.  Each paper was folded in half.  Each friend had to cut on the line that Mrs. Mudd had previously drawn. Then...unfold the paper, and just like that we made hearts!  After cutting out his/her heart, he/she could decorate with markers!

With Mrs. Cooper, we improved recognizing/identifying upper and lowercase letters (and their sounds). Each friend was given a penguin with an uppercase letter on it. He/she had to say the letter and the sound it makes.  Then he/she found the lowercase letter match on the carpet!

We took a bit of time today to build boats (out of blocks). We decided this was quite different than making them with aluminum foil like we did this morning!

After a busy, busy day...we enjoyed getting the wiggles out...outside!

During Jesus Time we remembered the story of Jesus feeding the Five Thousand!  He made enough food for 5,000 people from one boy's small lunch!  Only a miracle that Jesus could make happen!  We remembered that God always provides for us.  He gives us food and drink, clothes and home, help when we are sick, and a family to love us!  And He gave us Jesus to care for us and to take away our sins!

Enjoy your evening!