On Monday this week we finished up our farm unit with some acting! We read the book, "The Hat" by Jan Brett and then the kids used stick puppets to act out the story. They also got to make their own stick puppets to take home.
On Wednesday we played a little bit of alphabet matching to work on letter recognition. They did really good with the letters we've already learned and got a few of the others right as well!
We also had some fun on Wednesday with pajama day! October is National Popcorn Month. Just the kind of thing I love to celebrate in preschool! We read a fun story about Paul Bunyan accidentally covering Minnesota in popcorn and then made some popcorn of our own.
Wednesday was also the start of our weather unit. We watched a little bit of Sid the Science Kid to introduce weather and clouds, in particular. It's tough to learn about weather here in Arizona when we don't see much besides the sun!
On Friday we got more into clouds, starting off with some cloud counting. We made our own rain cloud counting mats and then used cereal to make different numbers of raindrops. This is an activity you can continue at home! Use whatever you have on hand for the rain drops and give your kids different numbers to count out. Challenge them and see how high they can count!
We also got to make our own mini rain storms! The kids got to squirt colored water into a cloud of shaving cream and watch as the cloud filled with water and then started to rain!
Once too much rain had gone through the cloud, it turned into fog in a bottle. (Which was also a new concept for these weather deprived Arizona kids!)
After that we painted cloud pictures with white paint and cotton balls.
Have a great Fall Break everyone!
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