Today at Preschool

We started with circle time/calendar and sang all our favorite songs. Then we started our super long craft project. I had pre-cut objects from magazines and had foam stickers ready to place in their alphabet books. It ended up consuming our whole morning and we still weren't able to quite finish it. But I was amazed at how each paper clipping pulled from the bin they immediately knew what page to glue it to. Finn did not want to use any papers for the letter M stating, "This is my mom's letter because her name is Maren and her birthday is in March!" It was so cute! The girls all agreed that the ballerinas just had to go on their B page! They are so smart and it was a great learning day!

Today at Preschool

Today we started preschool with our art project. The goal was to do straw paintings (note to self: must water down the paint first) I t did not go exactly to plan, but, was fun anyhow.
We then went in and worked on the letter Xx. We talked about its sound and then did a writting page. We then read the last Sunset of the Sabertooth and Started Midnight on the Moon. We followed this with snacks and play time.

Today at Preschool

(I did not show them a picture of him smoking)

Today at preschool we did three things
1. I wrote letters Aa- Pp on my board and had them write them on their boards making sure to stay in the right lines (top, middle, bottom)
2. We looked at an art book and talked about different colors and shapes in art and then looked at Jackson Pollock and saw how he did not really have any shapes in his art. Then we made our own Jackson Pollock paintings
3. We read the last chapters of the Magic Tree House book.

Quick Catch Up

I cant remember exact details of the last few Preschools at my house, but, we have been working on cutting things out. We made the Christmas tree ornaments and the time before that (I think) we colored shapes according to my directions and then cut them out.

Today at Preschool 10/14

Today at preschool we reviewed colors (primary, secondary, warm, & cool). We then talked about lines and how every picture uses lines. We looked at several pictures of art and picked out all the different kind of lines. We then traced a page of six different kinds of lines, this went well. Then we tried a dot-to-dot made up of different lines (this went OK). We did Gg and Hh worksheets also.
Before we read from the book we looked at Finns castle and nights and talked about the drawbridge, portcullis (gate), courtyard/ keep, crenelation (the up and down notches at the top of the wall. They each chose their own knight to hold and lift every time they heard the word knight during the story. We read two chapters.
We had popcorn for a snack except London who says popcorn makes her choke so she had animal crackers. Then we played. They all behaved really well again!

Today at Preschool 9/30

Today we did the calendar, went over the letter Ff and reviewed Aa-Ff. We then talked about warm (red, yellow, orange) and cool (blue, purple, green) colors. We looked at Pre-Raphaelite art and decided if it was more warm colors or cool colors (the colors are better in the book we used) they did a great job.

April Love by Arthur Hughs (cool)

Dante and Beatrice by Henry Holiday (warm)

La Belle Dame Sans Merci by Frank Cadogan Cowper (warm)

I am Half Sick of Shadows by Sidney H. Meteyard (cool)

Then they each drew a picture where they were supposed to use only warm or only cool colors.
We read 3 chapters of the book, ate a snack and played. They all behaved very well.