Ice and Snow

We had so much fun with snow and ice this week!  The kids loved having icebergs with characters stuck in them, in the sensory table.  They used tools, syringes, and warm water to try and melt the ice to free some of their favorite characters!

Sooo much FUN!!!

We also built some homes for polar bears with ice cubes,

Painted with snow and ice,

and we gave our finger muscles a workout while we picked up colored "snow balls" with tweezers.  Just check out the concentration!  I love it!

 Our art project this week also gave our fine motor muscles a little workout.  The kids had to use tape to make snowflakes on a piece of paper, then we painted over it with water color.  It was very tricky using the tape, but the kids really loved trying to do a "big" kid project.

We also talked about the square shape, and the kids had some yummy fun gluing "snowballs" in a square pattern.

What a GREAT group of kids, that continue to amaze me each and everyday!

Polar Bears

This week the kids had so much fun with Polar Bears they didn't even know they were giving their fine motor muscles a workout!  We had the kids squeezing the glue bottle to glue cotton balls on a polar bear.

They painted with homemade puffy paint inside the lines to make a BIG fluffy polar bear.

And they made bear prints in the play dough to discover what polar bear tracks might look like in the Arctic.

We also worked on writing this week.  We wrote the letter P all by ourselves and glued penguins and polar bears all around it.

We worked on some of the letters in our name this week.  First we did hand over hand with Mrs. Jen to write our name (or letter).

Then we used a glue stick to trace the letter/letters we had just wrote.

And finally, we got to glitter!  They could either scoop or shake (many of them chose BOTH!)

Check out this finally product, soooo cute!!!

We even had time to practice the math concept of sorting with colored bears!  The kids loved these little bears and worked/played with them all morning!

Polar Bear week wouldn't be complete without the sensory table full of blue rice and arctic animals,

some great Polar Bear stories,

And all of our fun Preschool songs!

Penguins

This week our room was turned into the Arctic Tundra!  We had an igloo in our room, that was an awesome spot to hangout with friends!!!!

It even had it's own fishing hole!  The kids loved fishing for fish and showing their teachers and friends what letter they caught!

There was even a scientist in the Arctic taking pictures of all the penguin fun!



We worked real hard searching for penguins in the shaving cream!

We painted with black and white to discover that mixing black and white makes gray.

We even pretended to be penguins and played "Follow the Penguin,"  with penguin motions.  We waddled, jumped, swam, dove, and slid on our bellies like penguins!

 
It was cold tickley fun, when Mrs. Beth painted our feet to make our very own penguin print!

We got the blue rice out again today, this time we had arctic animals in it!  The kids worked together to build an igloo on the land and they were separating the land animals and the water animals!  It was so amazing watching their little minds work!

And we even enjoyed a cute little penguin treat!

These kids continue to amaze me, and I am so lucky to have them in my class.  Just check out some of these hard workers! 

They are really working hard on so many of those prewriting skills and loving it!  I am so proud :)!