Preschool

Last week was Benjamin's first week of Preschool and he LOVED IT! He was so excited to ride his bike to school, wear a backpack, and just be one of the big kids! It actually took a lot of effort to get him to wait for me to take his picture before we left for school!

So then this week I it was my turn to teach preschool. There are 5 moms and we each take a week and rotate. This week our theme was Fish. We also talked about the Letter B and Circles. It was so much fun, I thought I would share what we did.

Fish

• Bought 12 feeder gold fish and let the kids look at them, feed them, and touch them. They made a great center piece on the table for the day
• Read lots of books about fish A fish is a fish; One fish, Two fish, Red fish, Blue fish; Fish Eyes a book you can count on; and one more I can't remember right now
• Painted a picture of a fish
• We glued the Letter B on to fish to look like its scales (weird I know, but we were studying Fish and the letter B)
• Used a magnetic fishing pole to go fishing for paper fish with staples on them. On the back of each fish was a fun "fish activity" -- poems, songs, or games
• Bean bag toss into a sharks mouth!

Circles

• We have these circles that are different colors for a twister game, but we threw them onto the floor and had the kids run to whatever color I called
• We also played musical chairs on colored circles. Who ever ended up on the yellow circle won because yellow was our special color.
• We glued circles we found around the house onto a piece of paper (old CDs, some sand paper, and cotton circles)

Letter "B"

• We talked about what "B" sounds like and then thought of EVERYTHING we could that started with B. Benjamin is still pointing out words that start with B to me.
• Put Band aids on the a piece of paper with the Letter B

Snacks

• Tuesday we just had a boring snack of gold fish and popcorn
• Thursday we made our own Island because fish live in the water and land in the middle of water is an island. We took blue bowls (the water) and put a scoop of vanilla ice cream in the middle. Then we crumbled graham crackers on top of that to make the sand. Finally we put a gummy bear on our island and then ATE IT UP!

Preschool was so much fun and I am so glad I get to do it with Benjamin. He is just LOVING every minute of it and it couldn't be better. We have such a great group this year!