Little Adventures Preschool: Weather

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Wednesday, March 25, 2015

Preschool 3/25

It was a surprise to have snow this morning! What a fun way to talk about weather. I had planned on going out in the rain but since it was awful cold snow instead we stayed inside. We talked about the different types of weather and how it changes from day to day. We talked about how weather changes with the moving air which can be hot or cold. We practiced our letter W beginning reader and drew pictures of our favorite weather. We even started exploring the idea of writing words to match our pictures in our journals. We learned about quarters today to finish out our unit about money and had a great time practicing our songs in music.

This afternoon we started off with puzzles and worked through a few last Ready2Read pages and our guided reading groups. Many of the kids are ready to start a new unit on Monday. Yay! We're currently reading the "Now I'm Reading" series of books that utilize short vowel words so we can be successful in reading. We also continued our discussion of place value and counted to 100. I had each child write their numbers as high as they could to assess where any misconceptions were.

Thursday, March 27, 2014

Weather

The weather today was perfect! It started off a little bit chilly with a little wind. Then the sun came out and warmed us all up! It was fantastic to experience the change in weather while we were reading books about it. We continued working on letter W and drew on the chalkboard again, it was still super exciting for them. We were on Day 5 of a game called "Learning About Spelling". Up to this point in the year we've been working on making the sounds of the printed letters to figure out what a word is. Now we're going a bit backwards. We say a word (today my funny word was 'op') and then stretch it out to determine what letters we should write down that represent the sounds we made. Then we added different consonants to the beginning of the word to make new words. So today we figured out that we can make words like 'stop' 'mop' and 'cop'. We did a lot of wiggling like W the Worm and even painted a worm brown. Today was the introduction of the quarter. We sang the Pocket Song to the tune shortening bread and practiced all 4 coins now. Remember that coins are just an introduction in preschool and there is no need to master them. Just understand that there are different coins each with its own worth.

Wednesday, March 26, 2014

Tot School Weather

Wow! What a great week to talk about the letter W with nice weather! We spent tot school outside for the whole day and had so much fun! The kids were excited to play with everything they hadn't seen for a few months. The sandbox and the playhouse were quite popular. We also played in our weather sensory bin (blue rice, cotton balls, silver pipe cleaners bent like lightening, a felt sun).

We had snack on a picnic blanket and ate watermelon. It was so exciting to them that they were having a picnic! We made windsocks with streamers and had oodles of fun carrying them around the yard. One art project that we explored was an equal mixture of shaving cream and liquid glue. We painted "clouds" with them and they turned out really cool! While we were waiting for moms to come we each got a straw and got to play the part of 'wind' by blowing around all the clouds (cotton balls) on the hard floor. It was such a blast!

Wednesday, March 27, 2013

Weather - Wednesday Preschool

What a fun day to talk about weather. The snow if finally melting and it's getting a little bit warmer outside. I'm hoping that spring is finally here!

We started the day coloring paper that would eventually become our own kites.

Then we headed outside to try and fly our kites. As it turns out, the snow wasn't quite melted enough so running in the grass area was rather difficult. I hope everyone brings their kites Friday to our Field Trip Friday so we can see how they fly when we can really run.

We headed downstairs to work on our reading activity. I put a secret word up on the board and when you knew what it was you were supposed to act it out. The secret word was "hop". How fun!

Remember the mud art we didn't get to do on Monday because of the cold and snow? Well, insert that activity here:

W the worm wiggled through some watery mud. (Amazing Action Alphabet Activity Page)

Today we learned about quarters. When I told them that a quarter was worth 25 cents the majority of the eyeballs in the classroom became the size of silver dollars - WOW! 25 cents! It was so exciting to them that they got to keep their very own quarter!

We've now finished "Mary had a Little Lamb" on the piano. Even if your child hasn't mastered this song they are making great gains in learning the basics of playing the piano, the rhythms in music, and that music is fun. Woot woot!

Afternoon preschool started off with some playtime. It was requested that we first play our card game (I can never remember the name of it...). It involves quick thinking to match one of 4 attributes on the card that's on the top of one of the piles in the middle.

We also practiced our sight words with "Zingo Sight Words".

Writing time was focused on writing a list. We talked about different types of lists that we could write: our favorite colors, people in our family, what to buy at the grocery store, etc.

Art time was so much fun in tot school yesterday that we decided to repeat the activity with preschool B. Mix glue and shaving cream for a fantastic sensory art time.

Boy, what a mess! It's so much fun, but super messy!

Tuesday, March 26, 2013

Weather - Tot School Tuesday

What a fun day of school! I apologize that everyone came home so dirty. We sure enjoyed our time together though!

We started our day off by coloring with markers. Each child had a 6x18 piece of paper that would eventually turn into a windsock.

I had yellow and pink streamers to choose from and each child picked their own color.

Here is where all the fun got started and Miss Amanda forgot to put paint smocks on everyone. It wasn't too messy, but the shaving cream did get on clothes. We mixed white liquid glue with shaving cream to paint clouds. When it dries the glue holds the air bubbles in the shaving cream and it is a soft and slightly squishy finished project.

Our sensory bin was blue rice with a felt sun, large white pompom clouds, little blue pompom raindrops, and pipe cleaner lightning bolts. They had a lot of fun with it!

We are continuing to practice sitting on a green mat while I read stories. It's completely optional at this point, and a good introduction to a routine that we'll be following in preschool in the fall with the older kids that are moving up.

Doing the ASL for "Sun" as we're talking about different types of weather.

We got to play with play-dough in three different colors. Yellow for the sun, blue for rain or sky, and white for clouds.

SH found out that the play-dough would stick to her head, and the trend caught on...

We turned on the fan at the end of the day for everyone to fly their windsocks and they thought it was the most excellent thing in the whole world! The giggles and laughter were just contagious. It was so much fun!

Monday, March 25, 2013

Monday Preschool - Wind

What a fantastic day of school! I love talking about the wind with preschoolers. They get such a kick out of it. We started the day off tracing our names at the tables and then we met at the rug to work on our reading skills. I read a few books about wind to them and then we practiced the 4 things that good readers do.
We look with our eyes.
We point with our fingers.

We make the letter sounds with our mouth.
We listen to the word with our ears.
Great reading!

The letter of the week is W and the w book from the Amazing Action Alphabet always makes the kids laugh. Be sure to pull it out of your child's backpack and read it with them.

For art we were supposed to do a mud art project, but due to the snow we had to pass on it for today. Instead we pulled out our journals and drew and wrote whatever we wanted.

Next came our science time. We pulled out a couple of fans and everyone got a feather to play with. They had so much fun chasing their feathers around in our homemade wind :)

We're continuing our unit on coins and today we talked about dimes.

Preschool B is now working on R controlled vowels. This week we're talking about R controlled A. Words like "car" sound like /k/-/letter name R/ instead of /c/ /a/ /r/ (like trying to say cat and throwing an /r/ sound on the end).

Picking through the boxes of reading books to find one they like.

We've been working on counting to 100 by 1's and 10's. We've moved on to representing quantities with numerals. We've been talking about all the patterns in the 100 chart and now we're putting those thoughts into practice by writing the missing numbers in the 100 chart.

At the end of the day a little game of "Circus" broke out as we showed off tricks and set up chairs for the audience :). It was a lot of fun.

Tuesday, February 19, 2013

March Tot Packs

Getting ready for March? Tot Packs are ready for you!

I create all of my lesson plans to share digitally with other homeschooling families and small classrooms. If your child attends Little Adventures Preschool you can easily supplement their learning at home by downloading the lesson plans. It will also give you a good idea about what we covered. I always plan more than we will ever actually get to so there is often a great idea within the plans that you can share with your child to extend their learning. You can find all of my toddler and preschool lesson plans here: http://www.teachersnotebook.com/shop/LittleAdventuresPreschool
Find the year long theme calendar {here} and follow along with us! This post gives details and pictures of all February Toddler Packs. Be sure to scroll down to see all of them.

Tot Packs 29-32 Tot packs are about 20 pages in length. They each have 2 pages of activity ideas, book suggestions, and links to the materials I use. You can certainly use all or part of the lesson plans. The printable pages include songs, matching games, drawing games and other activities. Tot packs are designed to be a first introduction to math concepts, letters, shapes and colors. They are not meant to obtain mastery in any subject. Let them be a guide for educational play between you and your child.