Trinity Preschool Activities for Friday, April 19, 2013

Willow Room- MWF class

We read "Katy Duck is a caterpillar" by Alyssa Satin Capucilli

We talked about seasons and asked the children what time of year do you like best?

We painted using the bottoms and tops of different size cups for circle art.S words, and we had fun with our dramatic play area set up as a BBQ/picnic area.

Maple Room: Morning class

We read "the very hungry caterpillar" by Eric Carle

We made a symmetrical painting, with folded paper to make butterfly wings.  The children dripped paint on one half only of a piece of paper using paint and eye droppers, then we folded the paper over and pressed it together.  When we opened it up, we saw a symmetrical picture.

Symmetrical painting made by dripping paint on one side of paper only.  We will make them into butterfly wings.

 

Very Hungry caterpillar necklace that involved patterning too.  

We had small paper with tiny brushes and paint.

We did The April song, and practiced our MOther's DAy songs.

We did a book called "Butterfly, butterfly" by Petr Horacek

We did letter Y activities, and did a caterpillar sequencing game.

We made a caterpillar pattern necklace.  The children put o a caterpillar head, then a green pasta, a red circle, a green pasta, etc.  to make a very hungry caterpillar necklace.

Maple Room; afternoon class

We read "The grouchy ladybug" by Eric Carle

We did a cutting project today.  The children cut out circles and painted by putting circles on the red paper to look like lady bugs.

We had small paper with tiny brushes at the easel.

We did The April song, and some lady bug rhymes, plus we practiced our songs for our Mother's Day party.

We also read "The very clumsy click beetle" by Eric Carle

Oak Room- Pre- K class

We read "Swimmy" by Leo Leonni and "I will surprise my friend" by Mo Willems- an elephant and piggie book.

We cut out a big blue fish shape and used small fish stampers on them to illustrate our story.  We made many red fish all over and one black fish like swimmy.

Swimmy- 

We played a small group game that was using addition skills.

We had magnetic alphabet letters and magnetic boards to use them on.
We had sea shells with magnifying glasses

We did down by the bay- a sing a long chant, and 5 little fish swimming in the sea with props for each child

Stay & Play:

We listened to a story on a CD- called "The Dot"
We also did Take me out to the ballgame

We mixed up puffy paint with colored paint ( it is a mixture of salt and flour)

We did a song called "I can dance"; (we sit quietly until the music starts, then we dance"  and we did "We are the dinosaurs" using maracas as props.

We had waffle blocks, legos, clay, and Mr. Potato head to play with special today.

Preschool Dramatic Play Post Office

We have purchase some cute accessories for our dramatic play post office and we have made many. One of the teachers made cut postal worker vests the children can wear as well.

We expand on these as well, with sorting activities, putting ABC on bins and alphabet letters on envelopes. You can sometimes get old envelopes from a card store and we save junk mail too. Great way to recycle old mail. We also do some patterning activities, the children have to match the pattern on the envelope to the correct mailbox. We put out pencils, paper, and stampers too.

Trinity Preschool Activities for Thursday, November 3, 2011

Wow- what a change in the weather! Today is cold and super windy! We played with trikes, tunnels, a teeter toter alligator and a tossing game in the gym today.

Willow Room: T/TH class

We read "Whose home?" by Keith Faulkner

We used farm shaped stampers and dipped them in pastel colors of tempra paint to make prints.

We had chalk at the easel.

We danced to the song "silly dance contest" by Jim Gill and we did a Farm Animal sounds song Good day.

We have hay in our sensory table, farm puppets, and pretend farm animals in our barn. We have numerous farm related activities in our room.


Maple Room:

Turkey Trouble by Wendi Silvano was our story today. We did straw painting. We watered down tempra paint and dripped them onto paper using an eye dropper. Then we blew through a straw to move the paint on the paper.

We sang the November song, and then let the kids pick what they wanted to sing- they chose- Months of the year, Twinkle Twinkle little star, little fish, and Teddy bear, Teddy Bear turn around.

We played a color memory game and we worked on learning about patterns. The teacher made a pattern on a dry erase board and the each had to figure out what came next in the pattern.

Oak Room:

We read "Owl Babies" by Martin Waddell adn "Whooo's there" by Mary Serfozo

We painted with shower puffs.

We had out Mr. Potato head, number matching puzzles, and mosaic art pieces.

We did an action song called "Can you leap like a frog?" the "H song, and the November song.

We asked if their name has the letter H in it?

We did an experiment today on cleaning copper pennies. We used plain vinegar, vinegar and salt, soapy water and plain water. First the children guessed what they thought would work best, then we tried the different solutions and saw what worked and what did not. The vinegar and salt worked best, followed by plain vinegar. The water and soapy water did not do anything to clean the pennies. After we did it as a group, we put the solutions and some pennies with Q-tips at a table and the children were able to try it on their own.