Preschool: President's Day

This week our theme was President's Day and we learned a little bit about George Washington and Abraham Lincoln and being a president. Since Paige didn't have school this week she got to join in on the fun and we loved having her.

Tuesday we started off with some President Day's coloring pages.

Then for art we created Lincoln's log cabin with lots of glue and pretzel sticks. I drew a simple house on Baylor's and she had fun just adding more and more glue and more and more pretzels. She had a road around it and then some of the sticks became grass. She was having quite fun with with pile. Paige was of course was more precise and wasn't sure how to do the roof so some marshmallows and toothpicks were her solution.

We sang a few songs which included teaching Baylor "Yankee Doodle" and then for learning time we read a story about George Washington when we was younger about some apples and made some homemade applesauce. Paige helped slice the apples and I cut the skin off. Baylor would throw the skin into a bowl and take bites off some of the slices. :) I didn't get a picture of the final product but it turned out so pretty and so delicious. Paige especially loved it and asked why I didn't make more. We also played a patriotic bingo for finish our learning time for the day.

Then for their active time they created a gym in the living room and went around and around on all their obstacles. We ended our day with a YouTube video of a story being read about President's Day.

Wednesday our first activity was sorting pennies and quarters. I printed off some large images of a penny and quarter and put them by some bowls and Baylor sorted them into the right bowl.

Then for art we created George Washington. They both turned out so cute!

Then for music we played "drums" on some pots with some wooden spoons. We tried to do kind of like follow the leader with it but Baylor didn't quite understand that so it mostly turned into us singing songs while they banged the pots.

For learning time we watched a couple of video about what the president does and what you have to do to be president and we watched another one about all the presidents of the United States. Then after lunch they played outside for a while with chalk and then with the baseball and bat. They pretty much kept each other entertained and it was nice to be outside and that the snow is pretty much all gone.

Since Addison and Kinsley came over on Thursday, we moved our last day of preschool to Friday. We stared off with finding pennies in bowls of flour. Then once they found them all they got to wash them off with some water and lots of bubbles.

For art they got to create Abraham Lincoln this time. They are both way too cute!

Then for learning time and to end our President's Day week we had a birthday party for George Washington and Abraham Lincoln. We started off by making some cupcakes.

Then while the cupcakes cooked and cooled we did some art and played some games for the "birthday party." First they made fingerprint American flags and then we played I spy something Red, White, or Blue.

Next we did a coin toss. I got some pennies and quarters and they had to toss the different coins at the right paper printed one. They tried throwing, rolling, and scooting the coins. Baylor was struggling with following directions and would just sometimes throw handfuls and would just laugh especially if a coin got on its side and would roll all over the place.

Then after dinner we celebrated by singing happy birthday to Abraham (Baylor) and George (Paige). They each got to blow out a candle though Baylor didn't want to blow out hers so Paige blew them both out and enjoyed our cupcakes. It was a fun way to end our preschool week!