Preschool: Crawly Friends

This last week our theme was crawly friends and it was right up Baylor's ally since she is all about bugs these days. Almost every day she goes in the backyard in search of bugs mostly roly poly bugs and worms. She often asks if we can keep them though my answer is always no and that they are much happier outside.

We started our week off by playing with playdough. I created bugs with my playdough and she created a long wiggly worm that she cut into pieces, she sliced the spider I created, she also made a snowman and a roly poly bug. Sometimes our first activity lasts maybe 5 minutes, this one was one that was almost a half an hour. She was content creating different things.

For art she created a caterpillar. We used half an egg carton and at first she was painting a pattern and then she got bored so it turned into mixing the two colors and trying to paint it as fast as she could.

We sang a couple of songs and then for learning time/outdoor time we went outside and looked for bugs. We found some worms, roly poly bugs, ear wigs, spider, some bees, and a butterfly. The spring flowers in our yard are in full bloom and it was a beautiful day to spend outside exploring our yard.

Wednesday we started off with some cutting practice.

Then for art we did a butterfly symmetry art creation. I first drew a symmetrical butterfly on a paper. I cover one half with a sheet of paper and then she painted the other half with some Q-tips. Some of the paint had dried but when she was done we folded the paper in half to create the other side of her butterfly. I love how it turned our and I love her cute name at the bottom.

For music I let her play our little toy piano while we sang.

Then for learning time we counted and created butterflies out of triangles and clothespins. I had the number on one triangle and a number of bugs on the other triangle. She had to count the bug and match it to the right number with a clothespin to create the butterflies. She is getting really good at counting and recognizing numbers 1-10. She still needs more practice with 6 and 9 and often confuses the two.

For reading time and our active time (it was a rainy day and I didn't want to go out in it) we set up a fort with some blankets to read in and then she played in it for a little bit.

Our last preschool day of the week she first started with stringing beads onto a pipe cleaner.

She painted the bee stripes with a cotton ball for art.

For singing time one of the songs we sang was "Old McDonald" and I got some of her stuffed animals and for each verse she picked an animal that we would sing that verse about. She loved it since she loves her stuffed animals.

Then for learning time we watched a YouTube video about bugs and then we went out and found some roly poly bugs. We then put them in a bowl with some carrot and apple pieces and watched them as they crawled around and ate. It was fun to watch them explore and to listen to Baylor talk to them.