We wrapped up our week with lots of creativity and hands-on fun! The children made iguanas and insects for letter Ii. ,
They used paint to make a muddy pig, trace circles, and paint their names.
It was a wonderful week filled with learning, creating, and plenty of messy fun. What a great way to end the week! 💚 Enjoy the weekend! 

Today we learned all about our sense of smell! We talked about how we use our noses to smell and how smells can be strong, mild, sweet, or stinky. We also discovered that everyone may like different smells and that’s perfectly okay!
For our hands-on activity, the kiddos created their very own flowers using markers, paper cups, paper, and popsicle sticks. 🌼 To make our flowers extra special, I added a little lilac scent. Our classroom smelled so lovely!
We also continued practicing the letter Ii, working on recognizing and becoming familiar with this letter. ✏️
To finish our day, the kiddos enjoyed some creative play dough time, using their imaginations to create and explore. 💜
What a fun day of learning through our senses, creativity, and play! 🌸👃✨

We use our hands to touch and feel things. there are many different types of textures, such as rough, smooth, bumpy, soft and hard. Some things we touch are different temperatures. Sand can be made from crushed rocks, shells and other natural materials. Our world is made up of many different textures. Adding texture to art gives it increased dimension. During this Invitation to Create, the kiddos explored sand and glue. They used their own ideas and creativity to plan their design. 
For fine motor they learned how to use a cup to trace a circle and sorted shapes.

All about taste! Today our preschoolers put their taste buds to work! 👅😋 We learned that we taste with our mouths and that foods can taste sweet, sour, salty, or bitter. We also talked about how everyone can have different opinions about foods; something one person loves might not be a favorite for someone else!
Then came the tasting test! We took tiny tastes of lime, salt, and honey and talked about how each one tasted. 🍋🧂🍯 There were lots of interesting faces and reactions! And the clear favorite of the day was… HONEY! 🍯💛 It was definitely the winner in our classroom taste test!
They also made their own "candy bracelets"  using colorful pony beads. As we created our bracelets, we talked about which colors we thought might match different tastes. What color would you choose for sweet? What about sour or salty? So much fun!
Our learning continued with Letter Ii! The kiddos kept practicing their letter skills and worked in their journals, gluing 1s and 2s as they practiced numbers and fine-motor skills.
And, of course, we couldn't forget our color-sorting fun! 🍎❤️💛💚 Today we used apple stickers to practice sorting colors.
What a delicious, colorful, and busy day of learning! We tasted, created, sorted, counted, and practiced our letters, all while having lots of fun! 🥰🍯🎨

Today was another great day in preschool. We had so much fun getting to know our new letter friend, Ii.
Our little learners got creative with stickers and paint, using them to build and decorate the letter Ii. 
Then it was time for a color sorting.  I drew three trees and labeled; yellow, green, and red, the kiddos placed the letters and counters on the corresponding trees.  

We wrapped up our Letter Tt lessons today with some fun and creative activities! The children made a tiger and a tree while practicing the sound and shape of the letter Tt.
They also spent time working in their journals, practicing Letter Tt and reviewing the numbers 1 and 2. I am so proud of all their hard work and the progress they are making! ⭐

We hear with our ears. Different materials create different sounds. The sounds we hear can be loud or soft, fast or slow. We can listen to the sounds instruments make. Today the kiddos made their own instrument!  They colored a paper plate and added rubber bands. They had so much fun making different sounds with their instruments!
In their journals they created letter Tt collages. 

We see with our eyes. Our eyes are different colors. They move up, down and from side to side. We use our eyes for looking, noticing and watching.
Piet Mondrian was a Dutch painter who was famous for painting straight lines and rectangles. Today the kiddos looked for shapes, then designed their own Mondrian-style art by using strips of paper. This creative process allows the kiddos to explore their critical thinking and spatial reasoning. 
For fine motor skills they sorted colors (red, yellow and green) and used dot markers! They also made letter Tt collages.

Hands are used in many ways throughout the day. We use our hands to write, trace and draw. Feet help us move and balance. There are many ways artists depict the human body. Degas and Rodin are both famous artist who created art to show how our bodies can move. During this Invitation to Create, the kiddos selected materials to express their ideas about the human body.

Arms move in different ways. We can shrug our shoulders, bend our elbows and twist our wrists. Our arms have bones that can break. We use arms to carry, pull, and pick up things. We can use them to hug and show we care. 
An X-ray is a picture that helps us see bones inside the body. Our body has hard bones covered with soft skin. The children blend science and art to make sense of their bodies and what might be hiding under their skin. After looking at an X-ray, the kiddos used chalk on paper to create various effects and expand their understanding of bones.  They also glued pieces of  white paper to create their own X-ray picture.
The kiddos worked on the letter Tt, we discussed that a "Tt's" are made up of straight lines, there are not any curves.  They painted with a q-tip and used stickers to create the letter Tt.  They finished up using their finger tip to paint leaves on a tree!