May 2019

Hello Preschool Families                                     May 2019

Our theme for May is Farm and possibly Frogs.  I am going to be flexible – If the children are loving the farm theme then we will stay with farm theme but if I feel like they need a change then we will change to a frog theme in a few weeks.

This week our dramatic play area is a house area.  Next week it will turn into a chicken coop.  There will be stuffed chickens and plastic eggs to find, and best of all no chicken mess to clean up. 

Our block area is a farm yard with farm animals, farm rug, fencing blocks, barn, silo, and tractors.  Also, in that area are farm animal block mates.  What are block mates?  Great question they are plastic pieces that look like animals that you put on the blocks.  It turns the block into that animal. Today that area was a huge hit in both morning and afternoon sessions.

Our sensory tables:  one has different farm animals, small barn and tractors along with popcorn seeds.  Ms Tammy made silos from juice cartons on Monday so the children can drop the corn at the top of the carton and it comes out the bottom.  The children were catching the seeds with the tractors.  The other sensory table has wool to wash.  Last summer I came across wool that had been sheared from a sheep.  Of course it is “dirty” with grass, dirt, and feed, so we put it in soapy water to clean it. 

Academic items:  Survey of favorite milk (chocolate, regular or strawberry), patterning with farm animals, different farm puzzles, feed the pig game, lucky duck game, duck dice game, counting clip its, farm vocab syllable cards, count farm animals and write the number, put the mud on the pig game, and many other items.

Movement activity:  Farm animal movement dice – roll the dice and move like the animal.

Free play toys: trains set, K’ nex, farm felt set, magnetic horses, and magnet tiles.  Along with the doll house and other classroom items.

Our music basket has a turned into the Old MacDonald music basket.  There are instruments to play and farm animals to hold while singing the song.  There is also a farm see and saw to play with in the basket.

Food activities: 

·       *  4/30 the children made butter by shaking heavy whipping cream and it       turns into butter and Wednesday they will eat bread and butter

·       *  Next week we will make homemade pickles – using salt water

·       *  Have an easy recipe that you would like to share or come in to help make with the children let me know.

Other items:

·        Our eggs came this week – they will hatch May 21

·        We also have caterpillars that will turn into butterflies

Dates to remember:

Monday May 27 – no school Memorial Day

If you have any question please let me know.

Thanks so much