Preschool: Fruits & Vegetables

This week our focus was on fruits & veggies. We started Tuesday off with playing with some playdough. Baylor always loves to create with playdough and it is the one thing that she can play with for quite a long time that keeps her interest. 

Then for art I got the felt fruits & veggies that I have in our Church bag and had her look at each one and then color her own with markers.

For music, one of the songs we sang was "We Like To Eat Apples & Bananas."

Then for learning time we have a basket of play fruit & veggies. So I got that out and we talked about what each one was. She guessed most of them. Then we watched a preschool YouTube video about fruits & veggies.

Then each fruit or veggie represented something that she could do like carrot was jump and strawberry was run around in a circle. She closed her eyes and picked a fruit or veggie out of the basket and did the action that I told her to do. She had pretty fun with this and always loves to move around. We ended our day with reading "Bernstein Bears and No More Junk Food."

Wednesday we started our day off with puzzles.

Then for art she painted a watermelon on a paper plate.

For music we sang "Where is Thumbkin?" and "Wheels on the Bus" and she was singing it throughout most of the day after that. :)

For learning time we first divided the basket of food into a pile of fruit and a pile of vegetables. The first time she didn't really know and so we talked about how most of the time fruit is sweet. Then after we did it once I had her do it again and she remembered most of them. Then we played shopping and took turns being the buyer with the fruits & veggies and being the cashier. The cashier had to cut up the food and then give it to the buyer to eat. We read our library books to end our day.

For Thursday it was a field trip. Our first stop was playing at the playground and then we went to the store and as we walked through the fruits & veggies I would point at one and she would tell me what it was. Then we picked out some fruit to make a fruit smoothie.

When we got back she did some art. I had a big piece of paper that I divided into squares. She drew some fruit & veggies in the squares like at the store.

Then we made our smoothie to end our day. It was delicious!