Letter J and a little Lent and St. Patrick too!

For Preschool Playdate last week we learned about the Letter J.  We also talked a little bit about Lent and St. Patrick as well!

We started by learning about the letter J. We put "Jewels" on the letter J outline and I wrote- Jesus is more precious than a Jewel.

 We talked about Lent (the day before had been Ash Wednesday) we created something visual as a reminder of lent- a Crown of thorns.

 Everyone got a tub of playdough  (whatever color they chose) and rolled it out.

 After rolling out the playdough we formed it into a circle- like a crown.

Then we put toothpicks into the playdough crowns to make it looks like thorns.

This the a look at the final "crown of thorns".

 

For snack today we had Jello! Yummy!! :) And Juice too!

 

We worked on writing Capital and lowercase letter J in some little workbooks I found at the Dollar Tree-cheap and easy... plus they have stickers too!

 

We talked about St. Patrick and the shamrock- we talked about the 3 leaves symbolizing the Father , Son , and the Holy Spirit... we also practiced making the sign of the cross.

 Then we made these really cute beaded shamrock finger rosaries... found this on my favorite Catholic website- Catholic Icing!! Thank you Lacy-- love your stuff! :)

 Happy Saint Patrick's Day to you all!   :)

Very belated Preschool Playdate- President's Day and Letter H

Here are some of the things we did at one of our February Preschool Playdates---

President's Day and the Letter H!

  

Circled Capital H and Lowercase H in Red and Blue crayon.

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We used the letter H to make Hats for President Lincoln - I think Scarlett's looks a little like a leprechaun!

 

Because they all like to use my dry erase board I wrote lots of letters on the board and they had to circle only the H's... then they all wanted to practice writing the letter H as well :)

 Sang Hickory Dickory Dock and if your Happy and you know it and Head shoulders Knees and Toes with our rhythm sticks- they have so much fun with these!! :)

 This picture of the boys cracks me up... we were talking about the presidents- Abraham Lincoln and George Washington... we used some information from Enchanted Learning for this.

Had a snack- ate pretzels- made letter H and also tried to stack the pretzels to make a Log cabin for President Lincoln as well!

 Then we studied different coins to see what presidents were on them!  We sorted coins and looked for really shiny coins.

 Lots of sorting going on!

 Then we found dirty coins and cleaned them with some salt and vinegar in water.

 Finally we used the clean coins and made president coin bracelets with pennies and nickels and clear tape.

Happy President's Day!