Trinity Preschool Activities for Wednesday, April 24, 2013

Willow Room: MWF class

We read "Whoosh went the wind" by Sally Derby

We asked the children "How do you feel when it rains?"

We painted with watercolors in a sponge painting tool on white paper that revealed a surprise.  (We wrote their name in white crayon, and when they painted over it, their name showed up.)

We painted turtle shapes at the easel with rollers that had squares on them.

We practiced our Mother's Day songs.

We did a science project, called make it rain.  You use water and cotton balls as clouds.

We thought of words that start with the letter T.

Maple Room- morning class

We read "Butterfly House" by Eve Bunting

We did self portraits today.
We had pizza shapes at the easel with red paint, glue and cut out shapes to look like pizza toppings.

We practiced our Mother's Day songs.

We did letter Z activities, upper and lower case and thought of words that begin with the letter Z.

Maple Room- afternoon class

We read "The letter T alphabet book" and "Very Special Friends" by Jane Chapman

We worked on our letter journals on the letter T

We had paint with scrapers , toothbrushes and mesh brushes at the easel.

We did letter T activities- dry erase boards, letter sounds game, and did a letter sounds song "The letters on the bus go ..." to the tune of Wheels on the bus.

Oak Room: Pre- K class

We had beach day today.  One of our favorite activities.

We read "Harry by the sea" by Gene Zion ( we laid on our beach towels for the story)
We had a beach bag and played a guessing game- "what  
is inside the beach bag?"

We did a watercolors and salt art process- you paint with water colors and then sprinkle salt on the paper, which creates a cool effect.

We had the estimating jar with bugs in it.
We did an alphabet fish matching activity and a patterning board game.

We did snack and music in the gym; we did pretend surfing to music.  We played pass the fish, if you are holding the fish when the music stops, you stand up and say "Bloop, bloop"

We played balloon volleyball and balloon badminton today.

we had water table play, sand in the room, and did magnetic fishing activities.

We had snack, picnic style in the gym.

Stay & Play:

We read "The dinosaur who lived in my backyard" by G.G. Hennessy ( a book on CD)

We had oil pastels to draw with for art and chalk at the easel.

We did The freeze song, ( march skip, jump)
and using bells we did "I know a chicken"- a very fun song.

We played the game of Uno with small groups, had magnetic fishing and had sand in the sensory table.