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Thursday Preschool Playdate - Week 2 ( LETTER V)

Week 2 of Thursday Preschool Playdate!
We are focusing on the Letter V for this week and next week. 

(we only meet once per week- but Scarlett and I will also be doing this ourselves on Tuesdays each week)

These baskets are making thing so organized!!

The orange, blue,and pink baskets are what each student will be working on ... that large popcorn bin has some of the"Montessori activities"that I will pull out later- just don't want them distracted with too much stuff!

First we made a collage of various Vegetables to put on the letter V that was cut from construction paper.

 

Then we played "Guess what Vegetable?"  I put veggies in a bag, blindfolded them (they love that part) and let them feel and smell the veggies- then they had to guess!

  

 Next we did Volcanoes!! Now THIS is a fun V theme! Got the idea from Keri at  The Home Teacher.

 

First some red dye (for the LAVA color effect)

Then some baking powder...

                                                                   Pour in some vinegar...

 

and it comes BUBBLING OUT!! They LOVED it- very fun to do!

We also watched a couple volcanic eruptions on YOU TUBE after we did this activity.

After all the hard work as "volcanologists" we decided to eat some 

Vanilla ice cream and  Vanilla cookies! Yum Yum!! 

**While they were eating their snack I read the Creation story and Adam and Eve ( in Genesis)... this was our stART project for the week- you can see it on my previous blog or click HERE!  **

Then we did some transferring activities:  This one was using the tongs to move the plastic hearts into each of the ice cube holes.  This still isn't completely easy for any of them.

 

Next I used some foam heart stickers (got them from Hobby Lobby) and put them in a certain pattern on a popsicle stick.  The student had to copy the pattern of colored and different sized hearts on to their own popsicle stick.  This was a little difficult for them too- but they ended up catching on and I think it was a very good learning activity for sizes, colors, and patterns!

 

I had these cute heart shaped cookie cutters that can be placed inside of each other... this

was another great size activity.. Each student had to put them together largest to smallest.

I've seen quite a few versions of this on various blogs-- I also used the cute plastic hearts (from the transferring activity) and they were placed in a neat line on popsicle sticks.  I think Scarlett did about 3 of these popsicle sticks-- she was very engaged in this activity!

 

The last thing we did was tracing the letter V with shaving creme!  I was so busy with the kids that I wasn't able to take any pictures (and my hands were a little messy)- bummer!  

They all had so much fun doing this project- duh- I even like it!

It helped clean up the paint on the tables and on their hands-- ahhh...nice and clean smelling. 

For more great ideas check here!     

stArt: The Creation Story

We did stART  during our Thursday Preschool Playdate this week- the kids listened to the Bible story of Creation and Adam and Eve.
Then we talked about how God made everyone!  They each received a sheet called- God Made Me! I left a large space up at the top for them to draw a picture of themselves.  If we didn't have time I was going to let them paste a picture I took of them and paste it at the top (but it turned out we had time to draw).

 

Then we PAINTED!  Each child painted a picture of one of the days that God created.  One painted the moon, sun, and stars; another painted the Oceans and Seas with dolphins, whales, and fish; another painted the land with grass, plants, and flowers.

  

They ALWAYS love painting!!  :)

For MORE stART projects look at A Mommy's Adventures!

Wordless Wednesday- This IS how I smile, Mommy!

This is what she looked like when I asked her to smile- LOL!

 

Check out more Wordless Wednesdays:

5 Minutes for Mom  

7 Clown circus 

Happy Groundhog's Day (Darn 6 more weeks of winter...)

Here's a great video for kids on groundhogs... haven't seen one on my Google Reader yet this morning so I thought some of you might find this useful to show your little ones! :) Enjoy!!