I decided to do the letter "S" for preschool this month.
After the kids did their show and tell and practiced writing the letter S we went to the garage for an S Obstacle course. The day before preschool I remembered that I did this last year and the kids loved it, so I hurried and bought some bubble wrap to put it together again.
All of the things the kids do in the obstacle course start with the letter S.
Here's the course:
"slither" through a tunnel
"slide" down the slide
"skip" down the line
"Stack" some blocks
"shake" some shakers
"Step" up on the Stools
Alternate between "sitting" and "standing" a few times
and lastly "stomp" on some bubble wrap.
The rest of the preschool I focused on Shapes.
We read this book, The Shape of Things. It's about how the things in our world are made out of basic shapes.
Then we went on a shape hunt.
I showed them a picture of a shape and then they looked around the room for something in that shape.
In this picture they are looking at the fan because it has 5 points like a star.
The pictures in the book gave me a fun idea. My mom had given me a whole bag of scrap pieces of felt and I had a lot of left over pink felt from a past Halloween costume, So I decided to make them all Shape flannel boards. I just used spray adhesive and tape to put the flannel on cardboard to make the board. Then I cut out basic shapes for them to make things out of. I gave them a paper with several ideas to help them get jump started.
Here they are with their flannel boards.
Next we used play dough to create some shapes. I just printed them all off a sheet of basic shapes and they used the play dough to fill them in. They all really loved doing this. There's just something about play dough!
Then I gave them all a big letter S and had them decorate it with shape stamps, shape stickers and shells. I found a recipe for homemade stamp pads that I was excited about. The best part about it is that it's washable! You take 4 tbsp of washable poster paint and mix it with 1 tbsp of washable school glue. Then you pour it on top of a sponge that is in an air tight container. Put the lid on the container and let the paint soak in. Walla, you have a stamp pad!
Then they painted Star Suncatchers
For snack time they got to make their own Shape Sandwich. I gave them a piece of bread and had some cookie cutters out for them to choose from.
They cut out their bread into one of the shapes.
Then I gave them their own bowl of peanut butter and honey and they got to make their own sandwich.
We had a little time at the end for playtime. One of the boys got in the baby swing and Aubrey started pushing him. I thought it was pretty cute.
Aubrey had lots of fun playing with her flannel board during quiet time. First she made the shapes I had given as examples,
then she had a blast making up tons of her own figures.
Oh what fun we have in Preschool!
Very impressive! You are so creative and it looks like the kids had an awesome time!
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