Today we had a lot of fun with Penguins. We learned a lot about penguins, where they live, what they eat, and one of their favorite things to learn was that a daddy penguins hold the eggs on their FEET! We also learned that Penguin and Polar Bear begin with the letter P. We practiced making the letter P, learned the letter P's sound, and did a craft with the letter P. They had a lot of fun gluing penguins and polar bears on the letter P they wrote themselves.
As you can see, the kids were very proud of their artwork.
The kids also had a lot of fun in the sensory table today. It was filled with blue rice (water), penguins, and icebergs. The kids had a blast finding the penguins in the water and filling up the "icebergs" with the correct number of penguins. They also did A LOT of counting too!
One of the highlights of the day was when the kids got to pretend to be penguins, waddling around the room, jumping from iceberg to iceberg, and swimming if they fell off. It was a great game that had them practicing their balance and coordination!
It was an awesome day with an awesome group of kids! Can't wait to see you all next week.
Today we had a lot of fun with Bears and Polar Bears. We explored the concept of sorting and patterns with colored bears. It was a lot of fun and the kids loved collecting their color bears in their special cup. Some even explored making patterns by using the pattern cards and following the directions! I was very impressed with all of their efforts on this skill.
We also worked on our fine motor skills and made a winter sticker picture. As you can see it takes a lot of effort for those tiny fingers to get the backs off of stickers!
Then we had a chance to get messy and have fun with paint. The kids had so much fun making their "Polar Bear in a Snowstorm" artwork with a cotton ball and white paint.
And despite the weather, we still have a block of time for free play. When the weather keeps us inside, we LOVE going to our neighboring class for a little neighborhood time.
And we even got to see a horse get out of his trailer and head into the veterinarian's office! Oooh what a day with a great group of kids. Keep up the good work.
We had "snow" much fun today exploring ice and having a little bit of fun with snow as well. We learned a lot about ice today and even did our very first science experiment. We explored ice to see how it felt. The kids decided the best way to describe ice was "cold, freezy, slippery, and wet."
Then we read a story and sang a song about ice, learning how it melts when it gets warm out.
Then came the fun part, we performed our first experiment! We used syringes to suck up warm water out of a bowl, and then we squirted the warm water onto our ice and watched it melt away! Boy was it fun!
We also learned about the letter "I", the sound it makes, and brainstormed some words that started with I. Then we had fun making icicles on I.
Then we took a break from all the ice and revisited snow. We had a big bucket of "snow" and the kids were able to play with the snow however they saw fit. It was so much fun to see their little minds working. Some made snowmen, others enjoyed throwing it in the air and watching it fall, some made snowangels, and many of them just enjoyed collecting as much snow as they could! It really was "snow" much fun.
All in all it was a great day with a great group of kids!
I can't wait to see you all next week.
