Preschool: Father's Day

It was a theme all about Nate his week, our favorite guy and our favorite dad. 

We started the week off doing some perlor beads.

Then for art Baylor created a Picasso like picture of her dad. She had fun cutting out pieces of paper. The only thing I did was cut out the circle head and she did the rest. We created it to be a card. Then I asked her what she liked about dad and she said him coming home and hiding under blankets with him. She then drew the word Dad on it along with her name and drew a picture of her and Nate together. 

We sang "Daddy's Homecoming" and a couple of other songs. I'm going to focus on that song this week and sing it every day since she is singing with a group of kids on Sunday at church. It will be her first time going up and singing during sacrament meeting so we will see how it goes.

For our learning time I had printed out some pictures and told her a story of a little girl who loved her dad and wanted to buy him a present for Father's day. She went to her piggy bank and didn't have any money and was sad and didn't know what to do. Then she thought of other ways she could show her love like folding his clothes or making his bed, cooking him something that he likes, and giving him hugs. I then had her tell a story with the pictures and she pretty much told the same story but so much cuter. I was surprised at how many details from the story she was able to retell back.

We then ended our day reading some Bernstein Bear Nursery Tales. For our outdoor time this week I didn't do much since it was a nice week and I didn't get any pictures. Two of the days after lunch the girls were out in the backyard for most of the afternoon playing school in the playhouse and then another day while I was weeding the front yard, the girls rode their bikes.

Wednesday we started with some play dough fun. She loves play dough and when someone is doing it with her it can last quite awhile.

For art she colored and created this ribbon for the best dad. I love the letter S that she attempted to draw for writing the word best. We then sang some songs and did a couple of fun activities for learning time. She wrapped a present for Nate and put her ribbon that she colored from art on top. I love how she was using her little foot to hold the fold of the wrapping paper down until she could get tape on it. 

Then we played memory with some pictures of Nate that I had printed off.

Then we made Nate a special treat, peanut butter cookies. She loved to help pour things into the bowl though on the first thing she missed and got some brown sugar on her dress so a clothes change was in order. She tried to help crack an egg but didn't like the slimy feel on her fingers. She loved eating the dough. :) After I got them all cooked, she colored on a sandwich bag and picked out the best ones for Nate to take to work the next day.

For story time we looked on Google photos of pictures of Nate and some of the stories behind the pictures. Most of the time we were saying how Daddy is so silly.

Thursday ended up being a super simple and quick day but a fun day to end our theme.

We started off with doing stop and go. She thought it was pretty fun and wanted to show Paige and do it with her as soon as she got home from school.

Then for art she colored a tie to give to Nate.

For music time we practiced "Daddy's Homecoming" and sang a few other songs including one of her favorites "Where is Thumbkin?"

And for learning time we talked about things that she likes about dad and things she likes to do with dad and I wrote some of them on the back on the tie and she gave it to him after he got home from work.

What a fun week and we are excited to celebrate Dad even more on Sunday!