OUR FIRST WEEK!

First days . . .

The first days of preschool are filled with transition and discovery.  The children are re-adjusting to the environment and discovering each other!

Below, Jackson finds that he can "swing himself" on his tummy.

Molly modeled for Sinh how to get on the swing and then sweetly gave him pushes.  Later I overheard them talking about their home sand boxes.  Molly likes to make sand castles in hers and Sinh has "diggers" in his sand box!

We inaugurated "Mud Kitchen" with a nice shelf from Noe's family and some repurposed cookware.  We plan on making lots of "mud pies" and "leaf soup" here!

Colin and Jack shared a moment painting together at the easel.

Our M/W glass helped to spruce up the playground by helping to plant and water some flowers for the outside entrance.

As planned, the M/W class also began work on an outdoor mural.  Below they are sanding the sides of the piece of wood...

We replenished our play dough-making supplies.

Sifting flour for out play dough.

Snack time is a good time to have conversation!

Colin and Jack got around to sharing the trains nicely!

Nice picture, Hazel!

Already our M/W group is doing things together - below, Colin initiated his daily "picnic."

Colin helped to get water for Mud Kitchen and watering our flowers.

Sinh was extremely focused on play dough!

I was impressed with his ability to make meticulous snakes!

Molly is an excellent doctor!

and she enjoyed some painting, as well!

Lucas and Jackson got together in the kitchen.

We practice washing hands procedure...

Drawing together!

We learn to stay with the grown up and hold the railing as we navigate the stairs...

Hello!

Wednesday we began decorating our chain-link fence.

"Leaf soup!"

Painting a base color together for our mural.  We are learning that sometimes we make a picture together and sometimes on our own!

As the children play with the play dough together, they naturally interact with make-believe play.  Below, Jack is having his pig talk to Noe's zebra!

Jackson helped to fill the water table.

A wonderful start to the school year!

Among other spring-time activities, we read a book about rainbows and reviewed color mixing!

Colin created a brick-red...

So pretty!

Jane made a bird's egg blue!

We reviewed our caterpillar story and made salt-dough caterpillars...

Our Thursday PJ party ended in cupcake-palooza...

Joy is becoming an excellent block builder!

Summer enjoyed figuring out how the water wheel worked.

Welcome Holt to Fridays in May!!

Everyone played harmoniously together this week - nice to have real spring weather!

What will we make today?

I have had this blue mixing bowl for about 10 years now and have mixed a lot of play dough, cookies, pancakes, bread and lots and lots of other things over the years.  

The last couple of weeks we made homemade tortillas . . .

And we made "dough," as Dublin calls it.  But first we had to replenish our salt and flour supplies!

We made the best of another snowy day.

We read the book, below and then talked about what might make us have a "bad day."

Jane and Noe have a good giggle the other day as they beaded.

We looked at our globe to see where Noe was going to travel to - China!  We had gave her a graduation of her own on her last day, since we will not see her again until summer camp. We are anxiously awaiting her postcard! 

The other day it rained a lot!  We splashed and splashed and splashed!

This week we read a well-loved story...

We played a game where we looked for leaves all over the room.

...and then we counted them up!

(we worked on a secret present for the holiday that is on Sunday...)

We also talked about Ladybugs and EVEN saw ONE outside one day.

We added spots to ladybugs in many ways...

Summer drew one herself!

We did some great eye-hand coordination with some safe hammering.