Raining Hearts…

Because there’s so many fun things to do we started a few Valentine’s themed activities today. We sorted candy hearts, traced hearts and counted hearts.

Later we read a fun story about Hearts raining from the sky and made some fun Valentine art. Nash read us a story from his Winnie the Pooh book.

Thursday

This morning we made snow and cloud pictures as well as some complicated block buildings…

We got a head start on Valentine activities by making some pink salt dough and shaping it into hearts!

Wednesday

I put out several art projects that emulated the projects we did at the art museum yesterday. ..

The children also made several books that they shared at meeting time! Kenadie brought some of the art she made yesterday and added to it today to make a book.

Sometimes you just need to take a break and look at books for a while.

the art museum

We started off our Museum field trip by engaging in some shaving cream marbling!

We perused the British portrait section. I explained to the children that these paintings were painted before people had cameras to take pictures of their family. Nash thought the picture he is standing in front of looks like him when he was a baby. Yhe preschoolers especially enjoyed seeing the portraits of children their own age from a long time ago.

There was otherwise lots of Modern Art for the children to make observations about and interact with. At the end of our visit we went back to the art room and did some easel painting!

Rice & Tea

We read a book about the traditions of Chinese New Year and then went to make some rice and tea. We use a timer while we were waiting for the rice to cook and we also took a cue from the book and did some housekeeping in the classroom. It is a tradition in China to clean the house so that no mess from the old year infects the new year!