Trinity Preschool Activities for Wednesday, April 9, 2014

Willow Room- MWF class

We read "Crunching Munching Caterpillar" by Sheridan Cain

We asked the children "Would you like to have wings?"

We painted egg cartons green to turn them into caterpillars.
We painted at the easel with water colors in small bottles.
We did Little Fish, Nursery Rhymes,(a review of all the rhymes we learned) and the Hand Dance for music time today.

We thought of words that begin with the letter Q.

We did a rainbow soup felt rhyme.
We measured how long out caterpillars have grown.
We read "Spring is here" by Will Hillenbrand

Maple Room: 

We read "Clara Caterpillar" By Pamela Duncan Edwards

We painted paper plates to turn into a giant classroom caterpillar.
We had dab a doo painters at the easel.

We put a big caterpillar into ABC order.

We did letter U activities

Oak Room:

We read "Fish is Fish" by Leo Lionni

We also read Let's go for a drive" by Mo Willems

We worked in our journals on number activities 1-5 (we finished our ABC's)

We did "The Freeze dance", "Couch Potato Pokey" and "I can Hammer" for music time today.

We played a game in small groups called "Slide and count addition". It is a fun learning game, where the children take a card with numbers on it, add the correct number of counters and add them together to get the total.

Stay and Play:

We read' And to think that I saw it on Mulberry Street" by Dr. Seuss

We made bubble wrap designs.  Ahead of time the teacher cut little slits in the back of bubble wrap and the children used small pieces of yarn to push into each spot.  From the front it made a colorful picture.

We did "Shoo fly", a body parts song. and 5 little ducks song.