Archive for March 2015
Spring, Seasons, and the Letter Y!
Since spring is fast-approaching, we learned all about spring and how it fits in with all the other seasons. The kids loved changing their winter tree into a spring tree by adding pink and white blossoms! This was a great project to help solidify what happens during each season. I love how creative some of…
Read MoreEgg Week!
This week was so neat as we learned all about eggs as well as identifying which animals hatch from eggs (oviparous animals). We went on an egg-hunt around our preschool for animal eggs! After our hunt, we gathered in small groups, opened the eggs to see which animals were inside and recorded our…
Read MoreSt. Patrick’s Day and Birds!!
We had a pretty lucky St. Patrick’s day at our preschool! We found a pot of gold left by a leprechaun!! Then we learned about St. Patrick and Ireland! The kids really enjoyed mixing blue and yellow to make GREEN!! Carefully painting inside the lines of their clovers! They did a great job! The leprechaun…
Read MoreNests, Nests, Nests!
Learning about birds last week was the perfect springboard into this week’s theme: NESTS! Checking out a real robin’s nest! We observed that it was made of mud, grass, twigs, and pine needles. I love that one student brought in this mud swallow nest. It was neat to see how this nest was…
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