Passport to Preschool Week 5 and 6

Owl Babies was our book this week and we explored shapes and colors along with printing and textures. I love reading this book to the children and watching their faces as they anxiously await for the Owl Mommy to come back.

With this lesson we also introduced cutting to the younger children. Children LOVE TO CUT! So we let them cut as much as they like with our supervision of course. This is a wonderful skill that enables them to manipulate their hand muscles. Great preparation for writing and hand eye coordination.

The children made the baby owls in the book and worked on there color and alphabet pages.











Week 6

E is for EARTH and that's where we live. We had the students make their own earth out of paper mache. The first day they placed the strips over the balloon and then once it was dry they painted land and water.



Just for fun and the practice of creating lines we read the Very Busy Spider. After the story we went on to make a spider web. Step by step they made their webs with glue, then they poured glitter over the lines and added a spider for the finishing touch. They were very busy...but not so tired afterward. When their parents came to pick them up they couldn't wait to show them their webs!






We had so much fun with the glitter and glue webs that we decided to make another type of web with yarn and paste. A very messy project and one that required a steady hand. After these dryed we removed them from the wax paper and they were stiff webs the children were able to hang.