Fun in the dark with LIGHT

I know this post is really late and I am going to do my best to remember everything we did.  It was such a fun day at preschool.  We were able to learn about the letter L!  We started out in a dark room and we were able to use fun flashlights for the LIGHT!  

 

Here we are seeing whooo whooo is here today.

 (The lights are still off in the following pictures. I am just using my flash so I could tell what I was taking pictures of.)  
Lexi is trying to find her owl to put it on the branch.  It was tricky in the dark, but so much fun!

Calendar time with Jerry

 Lydia was the spotlight.  Here she is holding up her baby picture.  

 Singing the alphabet song with Levi.

 Everyone used their flashlight to try and find letters that were on the wall.

 Now for a fun story with ZeeZee.
Miss Jenni read us a book about a cat named Oscar and a moth that was teaching him about LIGHT and dark.

ZeeZee was shining the light on the story so Mrs. Jenni could see.

 

Mrs. Jenni taught us about the sun and the earth.  She shined a light on the globe to show us how when half of the earth is light the other half is dark.  There was a star sticker on Texas, and we watched as the globe was spun slowly. The light was like the sun shining. And when the "sun" was not shining on Texas, we would pretend we were snoring because it would be night time. And once the globe turned and Texas was back in the light, we would raise our hands in the air because it was day time!

 

We also learned all about shadows.  We made small shadows...

 big shadows

and really big shadows.

 We came back to a room with lights and learned about light shining through a prism.  

When light shines through the prism it makes a rainbow!

We all took turns making a rainbow with the prism!

 Mrs. Jenni taught us about the colors of a rainbow.

 We learned the different colors that can be made when light is bent just right!

 Snack time! Yummy!

Playtime!!

Thanks Mrs. Jenni for another fun day at preschool!

The Letter "M"!!!

It was so perfect that for our "M" week we got to be at the Miller house! We had a lot of fun learning about the Letter "M" and all the fun words that start with it!

On Tuesday we got to learn about our 5 Senses! (Last time we were supposed to have school at Ms. Laura's it had to be cancelled, so we were making up some of the things we were supposed to learn :). But there are some senses that start with "m"! Like Mouth! And Manos (hands)!)

I will attempt to add the pictures for Tuesday later. My computer is having a hard time loading them from the email right now :(. Sorry! But here is the fun that we had!

Carmen was our spotlight and brought a cute baby picture of herself to share with us! We learned about our five senses and got to explore them!

Seeing: We went on a color shape hunt and found matches.

Hearing: We played musical chairs (stopping when the music stopped) and read a
book about waking up to sounds.

Touch: We got to reach in a bag and had to guess what an item was by feeling it. We also read a touch and feel book about Santa.

Taste: We tried all different kinds of taste.  Lemon (sour), Cocoa (bitter), Candy (sweet), and Salty - pretzels

Smell: We got to smell 9 different scents  (in cups) vanilla, banana, mint, etc. Then we read a book about Pluto the dog following his nose.

For snack time we enjoyed crackers and raisins and then we all went outside for some playtime :).

Overall it was a good day, however because everyone had a difficult time paying attention and listening to Ms. Laura everybody had to move down to yellow :(. But they were able to change their behaviors and end on a positive note :).


Thursday was also a fun day at school! We got to explore even more about the letter "M" and all of the yummy words that can be associated with it!

We started out by playing with play dough that Ms. Laura had made as our friends all arrived. It was a great attention getter for the kids! They all could have played with it for hours and did a great job at keeping it all clean!

 

Then Ms. Laura read us a book all about "Movement"! We all got to practice our cool Moves!

 

Next we painted with our water colors! We traced the letter "M" with our fingers and then our paintbrushes to practice writing. Then we painted a picture of the Moon!

 

Next we got to play "Don't Eat the Monster!" using "M&M's"!

 

Ms. Laura taught us all a fun science experiment with Marshmallows! We put marshmallows in a several cups with Milk, Apple Juice, Lemonade, Cold Water and Vinegar to see if they would dissolve with any of them. All of the marshmallows stayed in tact!

 

However, when each of us stirred marshmallows in a cup with hot water they Melted! The kids all got a kick out of watching their marshmallows get smaller and smaller!

 

Then Ms. Laura read us a book about a Bubble Monkey that got glue stuck in him!

 

We built fun things with Marshmallows and toothpicks! Including the letter "M", some dumbells, necklaces, dragon flies, and even made patters with the colors!

 

There were still lots of fun activities left to do, but since everyone had so much fun with the activities we had already done we didn't have time for the rest! It was a fantastic day and EVERYONE stayed on green the whole time!

 

Thank you Ms. Laura!!!