Little Adventures Preschool 2020-21

 We have been busy the last month!!  Here's a look at what we've been up to! Easter and Spring Activities The kids did bunny puzzles. We did a spin art activity where we used a salad spinner to spin paint onto egg cut outs. The kids built structures for their peeps with playdoh, jelly beans, and toothpicks. The kids decorated paper eggs. The kids decorated paper bags for an egg hunt, then had an egg hunt (which involved a lot of counting to make sure they got the right number of eggs). The kids decorated a big egg with paper strips. The kids colored Spring and Easter themed bookmarks. We experimented with "egg volcanoes"- eggs, dye, baking soda, and vinegar. They made a spring flower art project with muffin cups. Literacy Activities The kids used letter blocks and cards to build letter shapes. The kids played with and spelled things with lower case letter magnets. We practiced reading CVC words. We practiced our sight words. We read My Book With No Pictures, Penguins ...

 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...