Somewhere Over the Rainbow!!

This week was fun filled week!  We finally had a full week of preschool with all three day!  It's been awhile since we had a full five day week and we did a lot to make up for it! :)  To start the week off we had a St. Patrick's Day where we all wore green, learned about those pesky leprechauns and also learned about rainbows! The game of the week was rainbow tag.  The preschoolers were told a color of the rainbow.  Who ever was wearing that color they were the ones being chased.  Everyone got to chase each other.   The letter of the week and our last letter of our alphabet (yay) was the letter Yy.  We glued some yarn onto our Y's and also colored them yellow!

Coloring some four leaf clovers working on our color words.



 

We did something different to paint/color our four leaf clovers green.  We each had a tray with our four leaf clover painted onto it.  We added a little green paint and rolled some marbles around to spread the paint!  We some loose and crazy marbles but it was FUN!

 

We also worked on some fine motor skills and some more color identification.  We glued on fruit loops and glued them onto our paper in the correct color order of the rainbow. 

 

We did some more color mixing this week. We focused just mixing just two colors this week.  We started off by reading the story:  Little Blue and Little Yellow.   Pictured below with Chester the Raccoon (our preschool story time friend). 

 

 

The preschoolers each had blue and yellow frosting in their bowl.  Once they mixed it, the color turned green just like how little blue and little yellow did in the story!  To eat with our yummy frosting we had some graham crackers.

 

For our Fabulous, Fantastic Friday (even though we haven't had one in  a while :) ).  We did a rainbow experiment.  Since we have been learning about mixing colors and the colors of the rainbow we made rainbow volcanoes. We talked about how the two ingredients did not get along with each other and when they touched they went 'whish' (in their words).  The preschoolers got to mix the colors that they wanted for their volcano.  We had a countdown and off they went!  

 

For our art project for the day we did a rainbow rhyme.  The preschoolers each had to pick their favorite color of the rainbow, name two items that were that color and then draw them. Here are a few rhymes.  

I had to put this one up because it is one of my favorites and I was not shocked at all when he put the Nebraska Huskers in his poem.  I am also VERY impressed with his Husker 'N' that he drew to show it!  Click on the pictures to get a closer look at the rhyme and their responses.

Zoo Week!!

 

This week the preschoolers learned about the letter Zz.  We learned that Zz is for Zebra and Zoo!!  We started off learning our letter by turning our letter Zz into a Zebra!!

 

 

 

Throughout the week we learned about different types of animals that live in the zoo and a zoo keeper.  We learned what a zoo keeper does to help the animals.  We pretended to be animals in the zoo and choose our favorite zoo animal.  We matched foods to what the animal eats.  It is an awesome feeling when reading a story they had a zebra in it and they shouted zebra starts with the letter Z!  It was a great feeling! :)

While learning about zoo and the letter Zz the preschoolers also learned about mixing colors.  We first learned about red and yellow.  I froze red and yellow juice to turn into ice cubes.  I showed them the ice cubes and asked them what colors they will turn into when mixed together.  We placed them in our cup of Sprite and watched them through out the morning to see what color they would change.  Some of them changed right away and some took awhile, but they all turned orange!

 

Coloring Zz is for zoo pictures.. They had to draw their favorite zoo animal in the gates.

 

We also made some zoo animals in their pens at the zoo.  They got to choose from a:  zebra, monkey, elephant or lion. 

 

 

On Wednesday we mixed some more colors.  We mixed blue and red.  Some of them already knew what two colors they make but told them that we are still going to mix them to see if they were right and they were!  We used whipped cream, red and blue jello mix.  They mixed the two jello powders together in their whipped cream.  Some of them added enough blue and got a darker purple while others didn't add enough blue and got a lighter pink.  To eat with our whipped cream they had some cut up apples.