Snack time and lunch time are not just for eating. The kids use this time for socializing, playing, and learning too. Pretzels are a favorite snack, because you can build with them too. Sometimes they make people or animals, sometimes letters and words. Such clever kids.
I have been asking the boys to "team up" to work together. Sometimes for a challenging task, sometimes just for playing. They are all friends, so it's easy for me to make any group. I like to watch their personalities mix.
Superheroes are right up their alley. Each one of the preschoolers loves these toys. They have such elaborate imaginative play with these.
Color Clix again. Their creations are getting more and more difficult and challenging. I'm ever impressed with these toys and the skills that they help the kids to learn; concentration, imagination, fine motor skills, attention, and focus...
Our dress up corner is very fun, and has been more interesting to the kids right before and just after Halloween. They love playing dress-up.
Lacing and fine motor skills like this are a good idea to help them build up those tiny hand muscles so they can do tricky life skills later on, like tying their own shoes.
We read The Napping House and the preschoolers created their own magnets to tell the story themselves. First coloring, then cutting, then telling the story on our magnet board (cookie sheet). These went home in the backpacks with a lot of other things on Friday.
We had a very rainy puddly day this week and had inside recess. I brought out a new space station play tent that took over the whole room. The kids LOVED it. They instantly became astronauts and were running away from aliens and having countdowns and counting how many stars they could see.
Then we made rocket ship and space pictures at table time. After the pictures were done, we cut them into pieces to make a puzzle. They loved that idea. We read a few books about space too, it might continue on next week too, we shall see what the interest is.
Their block creations are ever impressive. The focus on detail always amazes me.
We started talking about money this week too. The names of the different coins and how much they are worth. It's a tricky thing to learn all at once, and we have some work to do, but it's a good skill to learn. Reinforce it when you can, if you see a coin, ask your preschooler it's name and how much it's worth. The more practice the better.
And of course, leaves! You can't go to preschool in the fall without doing something with LEAVES! Since the weather in Houston is far too warm for most trees to change, I had these sent in from Wisconsin. Aren't they wonderful? The kids loved talking about the different colors and shapes and smells. They got to choose their favorite leaves to take home, and the rest we took outside and tossed in the air to watch them flutter down, while we waited for parents.
