Due to our shortened week and our Grandparent's Day craft (which took much longer than anticipated), we took some extra time last week for the letter C and reviewed what we have learned so far. The kids loved playing with the playdough!
We continued learning about seeds by observing different fruits and veggies, looking at where their seeds are and how they grow. We then got some extra gluing practice by gluing all the red things we could find onto some tomatoes.
We also used some of the fruits and veggies that we looked at to paint pictures with! Cauliflower and green beans were the favorite painting tools. We were having so much fun that I didn't get any pictures taken while they were working, sorry!
We ended our seed week by reading about The Little Red Hen. The kids were not impressed by how rude her friends were, so we made our own bread to show how they could be much better helpers than the animals in the book! We threshed our own wheat, ground it and made it into rolls. They turned out pretty yummy!
We even made our own butter, which was apparently very hard work!
The kids made their own story wheels of The Little Red Hen while we took turns shaking the butter. Unfortunately, I couldn't find my brads that I thought were with the rest of my school supplies, so we skipped that part. A couple kids just drew a picture of a brad on their wheels!
I wanted to add a note here about my philosophy of preschool, just in case you were wondering. During preschool we do a lot of exploring and playing with the things we are learning about and then the kids do a worksheet or a craft to take home. I try to let the kids do these on their own as much as possible. This means that they won't come home looking perfect! Frequently the kids follow the directions on the worksheet, and then start doing something else (coloring all the circles instead of all the squares, for example). It is good practice for them either way and we do plenty of other practice on following directions. So don't stress when their work doesn't come home looking perfect! Preschool is all about learning how to be independent and do their work on their own, even if it doesn't look beautiful that way!
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