Pictures from Week 2: Preschool

Painting with watercolor paint

Super doing Play-doh. Probably his favorite activity.

Tonging with apples.

Pouring. I got this cute set at the thrift store for 59 cents. It takes so little to thrill me. LOL

Drawing with markers. One of her favorite activities.

The sandpaper shape, sandpaper letter, and sandpaper number we are working on. These are right in front of the modeling clay and sand tray.

This pocket chart also holds our helper jobs. There is a job on a seasonal paper (this month is apples) with a name card at the bottom. Each week, the name is rotated to the next job.

The sand tray. This student is doing more sensory work than writing, but that's o.k. too.

Knobbed Cylinder A.

I invested in these the first year I taught preschool, and I've never regretted it. The new 3s always love them, and the 4s love to do them all at once or put all the pegs in a bag and pull them out, etc.

Preschool Week 2: What We Are Up To

Theme of the Week: Letters and Colors
Letter of the Week: A
Number of the Month: 1
Shape of the Month: Circle
Color of the Month: Red

• At the art table, we have red play-doh.
• At the sensory table, we have the sand tray and modeling clay.
• At the paint easel, we have watercolor paint and red paint.
• On the practical life shelf, cutting food, locks puzzle, nuts and bolts, sticks in a shaker, pouring, tonging, and button dressing vests.
• On the art shelf, we have a Letter A color page, cutting strips, rubbing cards, and then our free art supplies (paper, cardstock, construction paper, scissors, crayons, markers, pencils, tape, glue, stapler, and paper punch.)
• On the sensorial shelf, we have color tablets 1, red rods, the brown stair, block tower, and knobbed cylinder A.
• On the geometry shelf, we have the circle puzzle. There are also the insets, a geoboard, shape sorter, and geometric solids.
• On the letter shelf, we have sandpaper letters (lower case and upper case) alphabet cards, and leap frog letters.
• On the language shelf, there is calendar matching, fall letter words, and the farm.
• On the writing shelf, there are dry erase letter pages, a letter A page, moveable alphabet, and the red level language materials.
• On the science shelf, there is mammal puzzle – horse, plant puzzle – tree, and land and water cards.
• On the geography shelf, there are the continent globe and the sand and water globe and the continent map puzzle.
• On the math shelf, we have sandpaper numbers, number puzzle, number bears, bead matching, fraction puzzles, and spindles.
• We are reading Chicka Chicka Boom Boom, White Rabbit’s Color Book, One Fish, Two Fish, Do You Know Your Colors?, Dr. Suess’ ABC, and The Crayon Box That Talked.