Little Adventures Preschool 2020-21

 I'm so glad the kids have been able to have school and have fun together even during this strange year.  They are all getting along so well and are such GREAT kids!! Here's a look at the day before Thanksgiving and the all outside day we had last week. Thanksgiving/Fall activities * The kids played with playdoh and leaf shaped cookie cutters. * The kids made turkey hats. * The kids decorated a Christmas tree that I drew on the wall outside.  Then they wanted to draw hearts and write things inside them. Literacy activities * The kids played with letter puzzles. * We read Bear Stayed Up for Christmas. Science activities * We made "Magic Milk"- milk with food coloring swirled around, then a q-tip with dish soap on it is touched to the surface.  They thought this was amazing and enjoyed using eye droppers/q-tips, and spoons to play with their milk. Fine Motor Skills activities * The kids played with winter themed lacing cards. Other * The kids have had fun building fort...

 Here is a look at our last three days of preschool :) Fall/Thanksgiving activities * We did a bat art project.  I know- this is more of a Halloween theme!  But I've had it ready for a while and we kept running out of time to do it, so we finally got around to it.  Only the glue was still wet, so it will come home next week. Literacy * We built letters out of plastic, magnetic letter pieces (Lakeshore Learning kit). * We reviewed sight words and played a sight word game called Bang! * We read I'd Really Like to Eat a Child and Can You Make a Scary Face? Math * We talked about subtraction with a book called 10 Fat Turkeys. * We added pictures of the kids to the month of their birthday on our bulletin board.  Holidays and birthdays really help the kids start to understand how long a year is. Fine Motor Skills * The kids used magnetic drawing boards to trace lower case and capital letters. * The kids strung lower case letters on pipe cleaner. * The kids played with...

 Holidays is such a fun time to have preschool!  Here's a look at our last two weeks 😀 Halloween/Fall activities At their request, we had some fun with baking soda, vinegar, and plastic spiders. For a special treat before our Halloween party, we watched Room on the Broom and ate our snacks in front of the tv.  We had our party!  Thank you for coming! I wish I'd gotten a picture of them all in their costumes!  I can't believe I forgot to pose them for one! We tried coloring leaves made of special paper. I've done this in past years and they've turned out really vibrant and beautiful. I think we used too much water and too big of droppers this year, so the colors were very muted.  But they still enjoyed it. We made "ooblek" and painted pumpkins with it. Literacy We read The Biggest Pumpkin Ever, Froggy Picks a Pumpkin, and a few books we had already read that they wanted to read again. We built CVC words with a kit I have. I've started asking the kids s...

Here's a look at our second week of Halloween fun :)  Halloween Activities * We had a lot of fun with some Halloween science.  I froze ice cubes in Halloween molds.  Some had baking soda added to them, and some had plastic spiders frozen in them.  I gave the kids squeeze bottles of warm water, squeeze bottles of vinegar, scoops, and eye droppers. They explored for a while until the ice cubes were melted.  Then we had some fun with some bigger reactions with baking soda and vinegar. * We've been practicing some Halloween songs. Some of the kids asked to sing it by themselves, so I got some videos. * The kids played with playdoh and Halloween cookie cutters. * We played Halloween tic tac toe. * The kids decorated foam pumpkins. Literacy * We read some fun books this week: The Pigeon Has to Go To School, Monster Trouble, Time to Harvest (nonfiction), and Bedtime for Monsters. * The kids worked on reading with their second sight word (like).  We also did a litt...

 This was a fun week as we started incorporating some Halloween activities into our learning. Halloween Activities * The kids made paper strip pumpkins.  This was good practice for their scissor skills. *We started learning/reviewing some Halloween songs. *The kids colored, wrote, decorated with stickers, and drew in blank Halloween books. (Tess thought it was funny to make that face 😏 Literacy * We read some Halloween books and some other fun books.  Don't Push the Button is one of their favorites from last year, and they've been requesting it for days.  We also read Peppa's Windy Fall Day. * I started introducing sight words.  I'll send out a video about this soon.  Our sight word for this week was "I."  We will add on next week. * They practiced making CVC words again. Math * Along with our usual calendar work, we are helping the kids who can't yet to count to 20. Fine Motor Skills * The kids played with very sticky slime. * Halloween sensory bins ...