We hatched butterflies at preschool again this spring. I've talked about hatching butterflies before (here, here, and here) but I wanted to share a new craft. (Here are my plans from butterfly day.)
The kids so enjoy this activity.
This year we got to write about them in our preschool journals.
Here's the craft. We painted the kid's first hand green with blue fingers for legs and stamped that a few times on a large paper. The on the other hand, we painted the hand red and the pointer and ring finger a purplish brown color. The eyes and nose were added later. I think they turned our super cute.
preschool journals again... and finally. I was sharing them sort of along the way and then I'd get behind and have to group them. Now here's the last chunk of preschool journals. You can see the others here.
N- We traced our phone numbers.
O: My O became __________
P: Me in my pajamas. There was a lightly traced body outline and the kids completed this on pajama party day.
Q: We had like two snow days and or something and missed the Q days. We didn't have a Q journal page. Oops.
R: Our robot- from robot day.
S- Spots on S
T: tracing letters
U- They signed their name under the table, upside down.
V: My favorite vegetable
and then there was this one....
W: Worm observation from W for worm day
X: X marks the spot.
Y: What is yellow?
Z: My favorite Zoo animal.
this was not the only zoo dinosaur....
At Easter, we did an Easter Egg:
Many of the kids liked to do extra work in their journals:
This funny girl drew lots of similar pictures and always had her brother wearing a dress... I asked about it and she just laughed and laughed....
another poor brother in a dress.
When we hatched our caterpillars, the kids made observations in their journals.
And on silly sock day they drew their socks:
The last week of school, the wonderful complete journals were sent home. Hopefully they'll be a treasured item that's saved for years and years.
Robot day was so much fun! We have so much fun at preschool anyway, and my pre-K class is really delightful, but this was an extra enjoyable day. We spent most of the time building our robots, but here's a little game we sent out on the table at arrival. I found these robot erasers at Target last summer and picked them up in anticipation. The kids ended up stacking and sorting the erasers in stead.
We also had out the bolt toy.
We read one robot book, If I had a Robot by Dan Yaccarino.
We did the same craft from last, red rectangle robots.
Then I divided the kiddos up and explained the procedures with the materials and supplies. My co-teacher, the parents, and I brought in boxes and recycled type materials, water bottle lids, plastic bowls, paper towel tubes, yarn, ribbon, stickers, etc. All the teachers had stayed after one day and wrapped the boxes and pringles cans in bulletin board paper of various colors.
Our leader for the day brought both her mom and dad, so with my co-teacher, we were able to have 3 teams of robot builders. This freed me up to deliver supplies and assist when needed.
We went through a lot of packing tape while they built and built.
In the end, we ended up with three pretty cool robots.
I had hoped to get to the Rr journal page at the end of class, but for whatever reason we didn't. I used it the next morning though and they all drew their robots.
Here is one of the other classes robots... Take a look again out ours... then theirs. Hmmmm. There's have a certain prettiness that our don't.
We didn't have this snack this year, but here's the snack I took for Lou's leader day last year on Rr day. It's two boxes of raisins, a juice box, an applesauce, and two pretzel rods. It was more food than the kids needed and more costly than a preschool snack should be, but it was too cute!
