Sense of Sight

This week we began Our Five Senses unit, focusing on our sense of Sight.

We paired up and looked into each other's eyes to study all the different parts. I turned off the lights and turned them back on again so the children could see the pupil dilate and contract.

We used a mirror to observe our own eyes.

The children looked closely at the colors in their iris.

After studying our eyes very carefully . . .

We made observational drawings.

We discussed the purpose of our eyelashes and eyelids and studied them closely as well.

We talked about what a blessing our sense of sight is,

and all the wonderful colors we get to enjoy.

We made a special color book "Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What do you See?"

We learned good coloring practices and tried our

best to use a variety of color and nice even strokes.

Reese read our completed story for us.

We talked about how some people don't have the sense of sight

and must use their other senses to help them "see" the world around them.

We used our sense of touch to help us play a "Guess Who" game

We used our sense of touch and hearing to help us find our

way across the preschool room and into our seats.

For Therrific Thursday we performed a science experiment using colors.

We filled in the colors of our materials and made a hypothesis as to what color would result when mixing two primary colors.

Then we tested our hypothesis!

Next week we'll continue our unit on Our Five Senses . . . See you then!

Leaping for Leap Day!

To celebrate Leap Year . . .

we had fun playing leap frog with each other!

Then we welcomed in the month of March.

Here's our March song:

Before singing, we decide if the weather is a 'lamb' day or a 'lion' day. At the end of the song we make the sound for the animal we've decided on. Every day is different in a Georgia spring!

This week we learned more about the 'ones' and 'tens' places.

We organized the numbers between 11 and 20, using one '10 block' and separate 'ones' units.

We learned the sound for the letter 'p'.

As a review of some of our letter sounds, we played a white board game in which the children chose any letter from the white board and drew a picture beginning with that letter sound.

After everyone was finished drawing their pictures, we shared the letter sound we chose and presented our pictures.

'm' is for mountains

'a' is for apples

's' is for snakes

'p' is for pig and 'm' is for mud

's' is for sun

And 't' is for train.

Gremlin Words

Here's what your cute kids were up to this week in preschool:

We learned the short sound for the letter 'u'.

And colored our 'u' book.

Then we illustrated some of our own 'u' pictures

From left to right, here's an Uncle, Under, and Umbrella

We also began exploring greater numbers (11-20).

We talked about number patterns and had a brief lesson on 'ones' and 'tens' places.

The highlight of our week was the introduction of Gremlin Words.

(Here's an illustration of what the children think a Gremlin looks like)

As we learn the important skill of blending letter sounds, I have the children read nonsense words. Instead of guessing what the word might be after hearing the first sound, they must focus on the sound of each letter and properly blend them together. We call them Gremlin words - even though they are nonsense words to us, they mean something to Gremlins - it's just a fun way to explain why these words won't mean anything to us. After properly reading the nonsense words, the children have a fun time guessing what it might mean to a Gremlin.