Preschool Fun

I haven't been as regular as On the Loose would like with preschool these days, but we still manage to have some fun.

He is still greatly enjoying his bags we collected as part of our preschool bag swap with our Five in a Row friends!

This one uses foam shapes to organize by color and by shape:

This is one of his very favorites! You "fish" for the letter fish with a magnetic pole and place the letters on the card one at a time.

This is the one he and I made for the swap. It's another magnetic fishing pole. There are 10 magnetic items and 10 non-magnetic items. The goal is to classify them by what sticks and what doesn't.

Here's some play-doh fun with his brother. He's made a "circle shaped pizza with tomato sauce and cheese on top. ":-)

We've also read a wide variety of library books, played blocks, experimented with numbers, etc. I think we've been successful in spite of our not being regular. We'll see what next week holds!

A Week of Preschool

This week we looked at the book Yellow Ball by Molly Bang from Before Five in a Row. We didn't do as many book related items as we did the previous two weeks but we did have lots of fun.

We talked about perspectives and located the ball on each page discussing why it looked bigger or smaller or lighter or darker. We experimented with balls and balloons to see which would fall faster, which would float, etc. We even bought a new ball to play with outside!

Our art work explored a couple of different mediums as we re-created the cover of our book. The one in his right hand was created with crayons and the other was created with Do-A-Dots.




Today, the big kids babysat for a couple of hours while I went to a chiropractic appointment and then a staff meeting at our office. Upon my return, I found a Playdough extravaganza! Turned Loose had assembled a tasty looking meal of pizza, a sandwich and a cup of lemonade. (By the way, Footloose insists that I tell you all that the lemonade as her idea and she made the cup.) Turned Loose is quite precise in his methods so the circles you see were actually created with a compass.




Oh, and, come to find out, he used my cheese grater to make the "cheese." Why must he be so realistic?



Yummy Sandwich! Wanna bite?

It was another fun and successful week of preschool, indeed!

A Week of Preschool

This week, we explored Corduroy. On the Loose is quite fascinated with this story. He asks lots of questions about the details when we read it.

We created button patterns from a printout at Homeschool Share:

We colored parts of the story and pasted them into a story sequencing rhyme (also from Homeschool Share):



We colored an "F" with two bear friends to focus on Corduroy's friendship (from? Yes, you guessed it--Homeschool Share):


On the Loose cuts scraps of paper and he glued them to a sheet of construction paper to make a quilt "like Lisa's bed":


Footloose and On the Loose sorted buttons by color:




This is not Corduroy related but he really enjoyed working with his colored links and activity cards:

It was a very productive preschool week. Truly, the kid has an insatiable desire to do preschool! He never tires of it and really keeps me on my toes to think of new and interesting things to do with him. I'm so incredibly thankful for all of the moms who blog about their activities with this age group! I don't know what I'd do without them!

A Week of Preschool

This week was fun! On the Loose and I centered our week around The Very Hungry Caterpillar by Eric Carle. It's one of his very favorite books! I found some fun craft ideas online and, I think, we did at least one each day. Here's a sampling:

This was actullay a picture I tore out of one of his "Do a Dot" books.

This was a worksheet I found online  here.

He loved coloring the foods and tracing the letters. It was a great activity for teaching him the days of the week.

Here's a caterpillar we made. The idea came from this link.

We also made Carisa's Tot Book. He wasn't quite as into it as last week's book but still enjoyed it. 

Aside from our caterpillar specifics, we did lots of other things: worked on memorizing a Bible verse, math with funtastic frogs and teddy grahams, playing outside, etc. It was a fun week of preschool to be sure.

For fun, here's a video of him reading the book. Footloose got it recorded for me so it's her voice you hear in the background.

We're looking forward to next week. We'll be having fun with Cordoroy!

A week of preschool

On the Loose loves preschool! He asks to do it every day...all day every day! Now that we are finally back home and into our regular routine, I cannot deny him any longer. This week, we had lots of fun surrounding the book Chicka Chicka Boom Boom by Bill Martin, Jr. and John Archambault.

I printed the pages for a "Tot Book" from Carisa's site. I also color copied the cover of our copy of the book here at home and we made a "Tot Book":

On the Loose had a great time with his book! He sorted letters, colored the coconut tree different colors, spelled out his name with stickers and identified shapes.

He's really enjoying his preschool corner and regularly tells me, "Daddy built me this preschool corner. Wasn't that nice of him?"

I also printed and colored this version of the coconut tree so that he could re-create the story whenever he wanted.

Our plan for next week is to make the "Tot Book" for The Very Hungry Caterpillar. That is definitely on of his favorites!