Little Adventures Preschool 2020-21

 We have been busy the last few weeks!  Here is what we've done as we've studied Ocean Animals and St. Patrick's Day.  Ocean Animal Activities The kids explored a variety of shells, sand dollars, and starfish with magnifying glasses and tweezers. The kids painted ocean animal pictures with paint dot markers. We made necklaces with the kids' favorite shells. We made our own soft playdoh and played with it, ocean animal cookie cutters, and plastic ocean animals and plants. The kids decorated wooden ocean animals and cardboard ocean animals. The kids played with plastic ocean animals in sensory sand. We put together a giant ocean puzzle (twice!). St. Patrick's Day Activities We did rainbow "smoosh painting"--we put paint on the back of a paper plate, smooshed another paper plate against it, and pressed it onto paper.  We also did rainbow finger-painting. We made puff paint (shaving cream and glue) and painted a four leaf clover with it. We made a bar graph wi...

 We've had a fun couple of weeks!  Here's a look at what we've been doing. Valentines Day Activities The kids decorated foam hearts. They decorated posterboard hearts with tissue paper squares. They made their own craft inventions with Valentines odds and ends. The kids decorated sugar cookies, decorated boxes to hold valentines, and exchanged valentines. Bubbles Activities The kids played with bubbles and all kinds of bubble makers outside. Literacy Activities We read Snowmen at Christmas, Love Monster, and Fly Guy Meets Fly Girl.  We've been working on sight words again.  We've introduced some new words and are reviewing them every day and playing a game with them next week. They played with alphabet robots. We watched Letter Factory while they ate their snack. Math Activities We talked about patterns and odds and evens with our calendar.  Also they love to take turns counting with the calendar. We played a jeopardy style game called Are You Ready For Kinderga...

 Isn't it nice to finally be on a normal schedule?! At least for now.  We had a fun week doing winter and snow themed activities. This week we will start on bubble activities and Valentines activities. Winter activities The kids painted canvases to look like snowstorms. Literacy activities The kids built CVC words (consonant-vowel-consonant).  They can do this on the side that gives them all three letters, or on the other side that is harder and has missing letters. The kids did foam letter puzzles. Math activities The kids have been counting a lot using the calendar. Fine Motor Skills activities The kids colored flowers made of special paper, then sprayed them with water to make the colors blend together. I gave the kids each a little notebook to write and draw in. Free time activities The kids have had a lot of fun building things lately.  The obsession with magnet blocks, forts, and marble runs continues!

 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.