Colors Week *MWF*

We explored colors this week in the Lizard classroom.  We read the stories: Pete the Cat and His White Shoes, Cat's Colors, and My Many Colored Days.  We danced to the song Please Stand Up by Mr. Al.  In creative art we used blue and yellow paint and marbles to make the color green.  We also used eye droppers and coffee filters to make suncatchers to decorate our windows. Our science experiments were Walking Colors and Rainbow Skittles. We sorted counting Bear's by color and we sorted goldfish by color and then counted them.  Our sensory table was full of colored rice. We learned some Spanish color words. Red-rojo Orange-naranja Yellow-amarillo Green-verde Blue-azul Purple-morado 
Next week we will be talking all about apples!

 Stacking tiny colored chairs is great work for our fine motor skills.

 Creating stained glass art

 Sorting Counting Bears by color

 Colored rice in the sensory table is a new experience.

 Using hand-eye coordination to keep the marble from coming out of the box.

Color Week **T/TR Class

Hello Families! First, a huge thanks to all who turned in Flower Power orders today :) These fundraisers help us provide the wonderful, educational materials needed to grow little minds!

Color week was a blast. We played lots of games and sang songs to help us identify colors. We also explored mixing colors using paint at the easel and colored ice cubes. We put yellow/blue cubes in a bowl and watched them melt into green, red/blue cubes melted into purple, and red/yellow cubes melted into orange. We also made our names in rainbow colors and worked on using the glue sticks properly & following 1-2 step directions. We worked on identifying the letters in their names. For now, they aren't putting the letters in order exactly (it is pretty comical!) our main concern is identifying those letters for most kiddos and the fine motor skills using the glue sticks.

We read "Bear sees colors" and "Dog's color day". The kids enjoyed our colorful fruit and veggie science circle Thursday! We made observations about how the food looked/smelled/felt/sounded. Then, we cut open each food (cucumber, green pepper, red pepper, and apples) and looked for seeds and made observations about the inside. We talked about how each one tastes and some friends shared whether they liked those foods or not! :)


Next week -- Apple Week. We will kick off autumn with a week of apple-fun. Some activities may include how apples grow, pretend apple orchard, apple pie sensory bin, & apple tasting!

We had to arch some names to fit our letters! 

Admiring the color of our TLC flowers!

Jack said "they smell pretty good"  :)

Making cake in the mud kitchen

Sand play - getting that sensory input!

Waffle blocks - building, problem solving, and team work!

Drawing on the vertical easel helps with future writing skills!

Rainbow rice was a HIT !!!

Gear painting on pink/green day.

This was messy but fun!

They thought using the paint brushes upside down was fun! 

Sorting, counting, and eating goldfish :)

Colorful snack

Beautiful day for bikes and chalk outside

Passing the apple around 

They all agreed the red pepper smelled "spicy" 

Discussing how the green pepper is smooth and squeezable. 

Mixing colors with paint. 

5 Senses Week *T/TR

We had a fun week learning about our 5 senses this week! The kiddos explored all kinds of materials they could hear, see, smell, taste, and touch. We had soft/hard and smooth/bumpy touch table items this week, stackable noisy blocks, and plenty of musical instruments to use throughout each day. On Tuesday, we practiced walking to chapel and learned a song "Jesus Loves Me" since our chapel time was cancelled. We also got plenty of sunshine on the playground digging for worms and watering our flowers. On Thursday, we had picture day and played in the gym. We also popped popcorn in the air popper & had a special snack. We wrote down observations about how the popcorn looked, sounded, smelled, tasted, and felt.

Next week is color week! I will be sending an email with more details over the weekend :)