Trinity Preschool Activities for Wednesday, October 23, 2013

Oak Room- Pre- k 5 day class

We read "One smart skunk" by Harriet Ziefert

We worked in our journal notebooks on pictures for the letter G.

We are learning about nocturnal animals.

We did a nocturnal animal rhyme and "on the count of 5" (a fun, movement song) for music today.

We used little legos to build with at the table today, and we enjoyed our purple moon sand.

Maple Room:  MWF class

We read "The little old lady who wasn't afraid of anything" by Linda Williams

We did marble painting today, we roll marbles that have been dipped in paint back and forth in a box.  We cut mini pumpkins in half and the pressed it on paper at the easel.

We did "Scarecrow", "October song", and "5 little pumpkins" for music today.
We skyped today with someone in Florida.

Willow Room: MWF class

We read "Pigsty" by Mark Teague

We asked the children "Do you like to play in the mud and get dirty?" 

We fingerpainted with chocolate pudding on pig shapes.

We had magnetic gears at the easel.

We did "The barnyard song,", "Jump down, turn around", and "Here we go round the mulberry bush" for music today.

We also did a 5 clean and dirty pigs rhyme.  We put animal stickers on our barn.

We used our muddy pigs mixture- mix cornstarch and water with a little brown paint and add plastic pigs, a great sensory experience.

Stay and Play:

We read "A friend for all seasons" by Mei Matsuoka

We painted using "tops", the children spun the tops on the paper after they were dipped in paint. Besides being a fun painting experience, this is a great fin motor experience.

We did "The airplane song" using ribbons and we did "Clap if you want to" for music today.

The children enjoyed playing with dolls in the dramatic corner.

We had dried beans and plastic pumpkins in our sensory table.

Popular on our Pinterest account is "muddy pigs" idea

Corn starch and water with a little brown paint.  Add some plastic pigs and you are all set for some great sensory fun.

We have many ideas on our Pinterest site (preschoolmp) (Trinity Preschool Mount Prospect) and this is one that gets repinned frequently.  We make a cornstarch and water mixture often for the kids to enjoy, but this one has a little twist to it in that we make it more watery and add the adorable plastic pigs.  Corn starch and water is such a wonderful sensory experience.  

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Muddy Pigs- Farm fun at preschool- cornstarch and water

We mix corn starch and water with a little brown paint to make our mud.  The plastic pigs love to roll around in the mud.  We do this with our farm unit in the Willow room.  This is great sensory fun for preschoolers.  

Trinity Preschool Summer Camp June 2012

We have been having fun with camp, last week the weather was cool and now it is HOT!  But the children have had fun no matter what the weather!  Today we brought out the sprinklers and hoses and I just love the excited sounds of laughter.  We also had water tables, art and plenty of quiet activities too.

Sand in trays with dinosaurs and small accessories

water play with new items added daily to change it up

We added paint to water and put it in spray bottles for the children to squirt at large sheets of paper.

We have peg board ties to the fence for our outdoor easels.  Wworks great.

Fly swatter painting- always a hit!

We put out powder paint and cups with water.  The children dip their brush in water and then in the powder paint.

Clear plastic containers of water with and eye droppers with liquid water colors.

The picture made from the fly swatters being whacked against the paper.

Getting ready for truck painting in large boxes.

Water play every day!

Truck painting in large boxes- they could roll the trucks with their hands, or two friends could pick up the box and roll the truck back and forth.

Ice blocks with watercolors

Ice sure is fun in the summer heat.

Trinity Preschool Activities for Wednesday, November 9, 2011

We had wind, rain, and cold weather today- so we played inside. Our general policy is to stay inside if temps are below 40 degrees and/or the weather is bad outside.

Stay & & Play:

We made our own pizzas in stay & play today and we loved them! We also had pineapple and milk for our snack.

We had a story today about leaves, called "Leaf Man" by Lois Ehlert. It has beautiful pictures!

We didn't do an art project, instead the kids made their own individual pizzas for snack.

We did some sing-a-log songs, and used scarves to dance the freeze dance. We also did a song "Let's go fly a kite""

We had some giant building blocks to build with today and we had dry erase boards out with markers so the children could practice writing.



Willow Room: MWF class

We read "The cow that went Oink" by Bernard Most

We asked the children "If you could be an animal, which one would you be?"

We fingerpainted with chocolate pudding- then we stamped a pig shape onto it to make "Muddy Pigs"

We did the turkey hop song, please pass the peas, and Hello everybody, yes indeed.

We combined corn starch and water with some brown paint to make "mud". We added plastic pigs to play "Pigs in the play pen".

Maple Room:

We read "Sometimes its turkey, sometimes its feathers" by Lorna Balian

We used spools to paint with today to make designs on our headbands for our Thanksgiving feast.

We had turkey shapes with glue and feathers at the easel.

We sang "The November song", "Pass the Turkey", "5 little turkeys", and "stomp, stomp, clap".

we did some letter "E" activities and we played a missing letter game with the letters ABCDE

Oak Room;

The children acted out the story of the three little pigs using puppets

We worked in our journals today drawing pictures of words that start with the letter I

We danced to "Late last night", "Take the Bean bag" "Stomp, stomp, clasp" and we used instruments to the songs" Let's play in the bag"- we used bells, shakers, stickers.

Reading the letter "I" book.

Science activity: We spun a color wheel to see all the colors mix together.