Busy Bee Sensory Box

Black Beans

Flowers and Rocks

Eraser Bees

Cornmeal Pollen

Cardboard Beehives

Fun, Fun, Fun

Safari Fun

This month we're having so much fun as we go on a safari!

 

We learned about migration, watering holes and evaporation with this cool science experiment!

 

 Our sensory box is filled with trees, rocks, corn and lots of fun safari animals.

We practiced counting and math equations with grassland elephants!

Parquetry beading cards are great fine motor practice and help develop color and shape patterns

Some of our really fun art projects, including a lion puppet, chalk zebra and digital camera with interchangeable pictures!

Our safari animals migrating to find water.

This fun game promotes taking turns, counting and science concepts.

 Even our calendar is all decked out in safari fun.

We created safari huts, complete with sandy walls and a family to call it home.

We worked on number concepts with colored ovals.

 

We created an African  mural. Here's a flamingo under a rainbow.

 

We use the look and find glasses to explore all the interesting things in our theme poster.

Our skills checklist for the month. The children are learning so much!

 Newsletters keep parents informed of all the fun things we're up to this month!

Our month is broken down in to theme weeks, then further broken down into a specific theme for each day. The children love exploring on a safari at Whole Child Preschool!

Little Artist Parent's Night Out

Our Little Artists Parent's Night Out was a blast! Our three main projects were watercolor canvass paintings (watercolors with salt and clear glue,) tall pot paintings, and dying play silks.

Transportation Fun

We have been having so much fun with our transportation unit! Here are some of the great things we've been working on!

 Choo-Choo fun with the train table.

 Matching up pictures with English and Spanish word labels.

 Numbers, shapes, and sorting.

 Making dump trucks.

 Stamping and adding numbers.

 Working in our flip phonics books.

 Playing fun transportation games.

 Telling fun transportation stories.

 Our transportation sensory box.

Learning about our environment and alternative fuel sources with our corn cars.

Our Montessori Area

I am so excited to share our new montessori materials with your kids!

 On this shelf we have the red and blue numerical rods, counting boxes with spindles, the pink tower, the broad stair, sound boxes and an alphabet wheel, and a movable alphabet activity.

 On this shelf we have the red rods, the four knobless cylinder boxes, the secondary color box, a pouring activity, a scooping activity and a lacing activity.

Grace is enjoying the art area!

Just like the rest of Whole Child Preschool, your child will often find new and exciting activities in our montessori area!

Sensory Day

 We LOVE a good sensory day! 

Today we created a rainbow watercolor painting, complete with a pot of gold coins, made googly eyed play dough friends, and enjoyed playing in a vanilla scented soap fountain. We played in water beads and snow mush, made a rainbow ribbon dance bracelet, and created neon sculptures. We used pipettes to transfer vinegar into little wells of baking soda, made some fun music, danced and played with the parachute.