The Letter N -- Nutrition

The kids were so excited today when they did the weather. Finally something different then hot & Sunny or Sunny & Windy. Definitely feel the chill in the air today!

Today's weather--Rainy & Cold

After circle time we practiced writing the letter N in capital and lower case. They all are improving with writing. It is so fun to see them get excited when they draw a letter right.


Our theme today was Nutrition - Healthy Bodies. We played a matching game with fruits and vegetables. The kids had fun learning about vegetables they had never heard of like artichoke hearts and turnips. I think the favorites are definitely fruit!!! We also talked about other ways to keep our bodies healthy. Exercise, brushing our teeth, going to sleep, eating healthy snacks, and taking a bath.

Sydnee was so cute today. I asked the kids why it was important to go to bed at night. Her reply..."Because Santa won't come if you don't go to sleep." And she is exactly right!!!!



I decided to take the kids on a little field trip to the grocery store so we could talk about and see all the different foods in the food groups. They each had their own paper that showed them foods in each of the food groups--fruits, vegetables, meats &beans, dairy, grains, and nuts & oils.
They all had a blast exploring the aisles and deciding if things were healthy or not so healthy.

What cute kids!!!!

Weighing the fruit

They each found their favorite color on the egg cartons and wanted a picture

McKay- light green, Brooklyn- Pink, Sydnee- White and Purple

Healthy Snack Time

Ants on a Log

No ants for Sydnee -- just a log :)


A short video of their favorite foods they found at the store

A is for Apples

Apples, Apples, Apples

The theme for today was A is for Apples.

Who knew there was so much to learn about apples?! We had a great time learning about the different kinds of apples and their colors. Our science experiment was to guess if apples would float in water. All the kids make the hypothesis that apples would indeed float and they were right.

Our next activity was counting and doing simple math. Each kid had their own apple and we cut it up and counted the number of seeds and glued them to the correct picture and number. The kids were so excited to see the inside of the apple. Unfortunately, I picked apples that only had one or two seeds so it was pretty anticlimatic.

For art time we tore up red paper and then glued it onto a paper plate to make an apple. The kids are getting pretty efficient with glue sticks. The girls are always more particular and McKay is done in less than two minutes. Boys will be boys I guess.

The BIG hit was making caramel apples.

They unwrapped the caramels and helped me measure the rest of the ingredients.

They were delicious!!!!

McKay

Honorary member of preschool



Preparing the apples with the sticks

Unwrapping all the caramels--tough work but so worth it!

So sad I didn't get a final picture of the finished apples.

They looked fantastic!


Ten Apples up on Top

by Dr. Suess

What a fun story! It was a good counting review too

Here is our sweet kids with ten apples up on top

Brooklyn is so much taller that I had to move several apples higher so she had room to stand

What a fun day!

I think they all had "apples" of fun!

Colors, Counting, and ABCs

What could be more fun than talking about colors to a group of little people who know what colors they love and aren't afraid to show it? We started the day by reading a fabulous book about a bunny who dips himself into different colors and makes himself all sorts of funny shades. The book came with little light prisms to make your own colors with the bunny, it was really neat for the kids to see how the primary colors worked.

One of the high-lights of today was playing color-bear bingo, they really enjoyed this so we played it over and over again.

Can I just say that I love these little workbooks? We did a color-by-number bunny sheet along with our other worksheets.

For their science experiement, we used the primary colors & made other colors with colored water, straws, and baby food jars. They thought this was really fun. They enjoyed making hypothesis and sometimes their results even matched! Thanks to Dinosaur Train for this fun printable that we glued into the science notebook.


Just for fun, we decided to make cookies. I had the kids help me mix it them they got a baggie full of dough and a couple of dots of food coloring. With a little effort from them (and more from me) we were able to make sugar cookies in their favorite colors. They were yummy!

It won't be hard to figure out whose hands and whose. :)

Friendship Day

Today for friendship day we talked all about friends- what makes a good friend, what do we do with our friends, etc... these kiddos are friend experts.

As we all know, these little people all have certain color favorites, so to go along with our friendship day, we talked about likes/dislikes and how that makes us all unique- like our finger prints. Here we are making a fingerprint caterpillar.

Yum- lunch!

For our science experiment, we talked about how each of us are different. One of the things that makes us different and unique is our bodies. Each of the kids were to find their heart beat, and to get their hearts pumping, I had them dance to some music for a bit. Love this picture. They all claimed to find their own heart beat, so I tried to see if they found find their friends' heart beats as well. They thought this was very funny.Then we discussed our observations.

Brooklyn's observations...

Sydnee's observations...

McKay's observations!

And I observed a fun-filled day! We ended with a little game "I Can Do That"...for some reason this is the only picture I got. They were good sports and had a fabulous day!