Rain, Rain Go Away

Wednesday we started off the day with a fun circle time discussion! Our topic was RAIN, another type of weather. I asked the kids to give me some examples of patters, each child gave me funny patterns using colors, food, body parts, clothing, and names. Then we talked about weather patterns. Our favorite pattern is dark clouds, rain, sunshine, rainbow. One book we read had a fun moving thermometer. I asked what kind of clothing they should wear if their mothers said it was 30 degrees outside, many said swimsuits. We learned about the weather temperature starting with freezing to really hot like 100 degrees. It was fun! Phillip tried to read us a book. He did a good job sitting and holding the book.
We practiced writing the letter W/w with fingerpaint on a little table. That was messy and ever so fun! After a while the kids played bloody hands. That was even more exciting. We made fun little weather wheels for the kids to take home. Some of the kids made sun or cloud suncatchers with old CD's and construction paper.

For snack we ate yummy dirt cups with worms. Ewwwww!

W is for Weather; Star Shape

Monday for preschool we had a great time learning about the letter W. We practiced making the W shape with pipe cleaners. W says, wah! Some W words are: water, wave, weird, what, why, and weather. Since our theme is about weather we talked about the weather and what it means. The kids learned about wind and pressure systems that make the air compress and move. We made hypotheses about what wind could or could not move. Then we experimented using straws and various objects. The wind could move a feather, string, cotton balls; it cannot move rocks, toy cars, clothes pins, or buttons. I read a fun book entitled "What Can the Wind Move?" A silly story about a wind that borrowed items from a town and later returned them. Using straws the kids blew paint over some dark blue paper to make a snow storm.

We focused some on the star shape. The kids made a star with their fingers. Each child also laid on the ground and looked up through our fingers to see the shape. We learned how to make star shapes using lines. Our snack included star shaped cheese, meat, and bread.

Our last little project was to make wax paper and crayon stars but that activity flopped big time. The kids had a hard time shaving off the wax crayons with pencil sharpeners. It was a good idea but too time consuming. We are so glad the Lily came to visit us! All the kids really missed Ella too. Stay tuned for the next installment.