Imagination Express Preschool: Letter S

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S is for Super Silly Stuff!

Look at these kids and their super silly faces!

I love how many of them involve fingers in noses :)

Super silly clay snakes!

Playing silly alphabet and number games on the ipad . . .

We played super silly sports . . . these bouncy balls went ALL over our preschool room!

Lots of giggles trying to catch them :)

Outside we played kickball with a giant exercise ball--silly!

Hoping like a bunny while flapping our arms like a chicken and racing--so silly!

Frisbee--there's a silly game . . . it never goes where you tell it to!

Lots and lots of giggles at school today!

S is for Superhero!

I loved this idea from Ms Morgan over at Brilliant Beginnings.

We had so much fun decorating and wearing our superhero capes!

We also talked about what it means to be a super hero and ways we are super heros.

"help my mom and dad!"

"not let my little brother eat legos!"

"put away my toys super fast!"

"help sad people be happy!"

Love it. :)

S is for Stripes

A silly, sick, and sort of sad book

about a little girl who gets the stripes.

Followed up by a discussion of repeating patterns

and paintings of our own stripes.

S is for Stripes!

S is for Super Slimy Stuff

Pudding + Noodles + Oatmeal = Super Slimy Stuff!

S is for SPIDERS!

It was a scary, spooky, spider-y world at preschool on Friday!

We got in the mood by reading this book:

A super fun pop-up book . . . kids love it!

We learned all about spiders and watched a movie about the largest spider in the world:

National Geographic Kids: Goliath Tarantula Spiders

(BTW . . . that is an excellent site to explore animals with kids! Lots of great stuff!)

And we made our own spiders . . . from number 8's with 8 eyes and 8 legs!

Glueing and attaching all those eyes and accordian folding the legs was great for our fine motor skills, and as one child told me, "This is fun Ms Tamra! You always do fun stuff with us!" Ahhh. . . melt my heart :).

YIKES! My table is covered with drying spiders! These will be hung from the ceiling in our classroom for the spooky month of October.

Finally, here's a spider song:
(sing to "The Farmer in the Dell")

The spider spins a web
The spider spins a web
Round & round, up & down,
The spider spins a web.

She spins it in and out,
She spins it in and out,
Round & round, up & down,
She spins it in and out.

She spins it back and forth,
She spins it back and forth,
Round & round, up & down,
She spins it in and out.

She spins it good and strong,
She spins it good and strong,
Round & round, up & down,
She spins it good and strong!

S is for SLIMY SPAGHETTI!

It's all about Spaghetti at preschool today!

We ate Spaghetti for snacks . . . what slimy, messy fun!

At the last minute, I decided to skip the sauce . . . good thing :)

And then made Spaghetti paintings!

This was a really fun way to work those every important fine motor skills, experience new textures, and color mixing!

CALENDAR Sept 20-24th

It's all about the Letter Ss this week!

Here's what you can look forward to . . .

Mon Sept 20th:

Slippery, Slimy Spaghetti! We'll eat and paint with a kid favorite . . . spaghetti!

Weds Sept 22:

Super Silly Socks!
Parents: Don't forget to send your child with one white sock to make their super S puppets!

Thurs Sept 24:

Spiders! Spiders! Those Sneaky, Special Spiders!
Don't forget to bring your letter S show and Tell!

Note: Morning class--our snack schedule got a little off. Instead of following the calendar these last few days of the month, just watch for your child to bring home the snack bucket . . . if you get it, bring snack the next school day. Thanks for your flexibility! :)

Octopus for Dinner??

Here's a fun little snack or dinner . . .

Serve the kids OCTOPUS!

Here's some super simple steps. . .

Take a hot dog and cut it in half lengthwise, but stop about 1 or 2 inches from one end. Then cut each of those halves in half . . . so now you have four legs. Cut each of those four in half--ending with eight. Place it on a pan (if baking in the oven--like I did the one above) or on a plate (for microwaving) with the legs spread out underneath and the uncut part on top. As it cooks, the legs will curl--creating a great octopus effect!

You can use this to talk about the letter O (Octopus, Ocean) or the number eight (8 legs) or even the letter S for Sea . . . or just to make dinner a little more fun!

Sink or Float?

We used this fun activity to make discoveries about how objects act in water.

1)We talked about things that sink or float and discussed how if the water pushes up against the object harder than the object pushes down, the object floats. But if the object pushes down harder then the water can push it up, it will sink.

2) I showed the kids a variety of objects and they hypothesized what would happen.

3) We tested our hypothesis by putting an object in the water.

4) After observing what happened, each child drew their observations on a paper that had a line drawn to represent the water. If the object floated, they drew it on top of the line. If it sunk, they drew it under the line on the bottom of the page.

5) The object was then removed and placed in the appropriate category. Here are our results:

6) We then dropped a ball of clay in the water. It's hard to see in this picture, but it sunk.

7) The children watched as I stretched it out and shaped it into a boat shape. I asked them if it would sink or float. They all thought it would sink. It was an exciting surprise to see this happen . . .