Little Adventures Preschool 2020-21

 Here is a look at our first days of 2021 doing winter-themed activities. Winter activities We made snow out of snow powder (from Amazon). The kids decorated posterboard snowmen. I like having some activities like this where the kids can explore creatively without having to make the end product look a certain way. Literacy activities We read I Really Like Slop, an Elephant and Piggie book. We read Baby Bear, Baby Bear, What Do You See? Math activities The kids worked on an artic animals puzzle. The kids put together a 1-100 puzzle. The kids explored making shapes with geoboards. Fine Motor Skills Activities They played with the magnetic alphabet tracing boards, working on capital and lower case letters. They drew with sidewalk chalk. They played with snap cubes. Miscellaneous We played a game called Spot It. They've enjoyed playing in the leaves and playing outside together.

Here is a look at the last two days of preschool before we let out for Christmas 😀   Christmas activities The kids painted and decorated cardboard Christmas trees. We made ornaments for the kids to give you. Literacy activities We read The Book With No Pictures so the kids would understand the presents I was giving them. Fine motor skill activities The kids played with Water Wow notebooks (water pens reveal the color in the pictures)

 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...