Fun, Fun, Fun Week!

Fun, Fun, Fun Week was filled with many "fun" learning activities!  

The children experimented with eye droppers and colored water to create new colors.  

They strung Cheerios, pretzels and beads to make necklaces.

They requested a return of our special popcorn popper.  Watching the popcorn pop is almost as much fun as eating it!

They ate "big" pieces of Watermelon for snack, demonstrating "how it drips"!  This will make more sense to you when you attend our last day presentation!

At Story Time they listened to felt board fairy tales, and stories from their favorite author, Kieko Kasza.

A return visit from Baby Mika was an additional highlight of the week.

The children were very excited to visit with their friends in Pre-K Four when we joined them for a Morning Meeting!

Perhaps most fun of all was our field trip to the Elm Avenue Town Park Playground.  

The weather was nearly perfect and the children had a "perfectly" grand time!

Happy Summer Birthday to Isla, Delia and MacKenzie!

Looking Deeper: Exploration and Learning through Play

This Week let's take a closer look at the "fun" of play!

As mentioned above, this week was filled with a wide variety of activities, some new, some back by popular demand, but all Fun, Fun, Fun!  One characteristic that these activities had in common was the fact that they were multi-layered in skill focus, and provided the children with a "review" of many skills and facts that we focused upon over the course of the year!

The children excitedly mixed colored water every day this week and never tired of creating new colors.  They experienced this activity as playful and fun, but as is always the case with play, it was so much more!  Manipulating an eye dropper was a new learning experience for many of the children.

They spontaneously exclaimed that blue and yellow made green, that red and yellow made orange, and that blue and red made purple.  Additionally, Spanish was utilized from time to time as a child was heard to exclaim; I made verde....... anaranjado.......morado!

Senora Jen built upon this experience as she read el libro de colores!

Stringing Cheerios and pretzels is a fun fine motor activity that quickly morphed into a Math lesson as the children began counting the number of Cheerios and pretzels that were on their strings, and discerned who had more and/or most.

Stringing colored beads provided experimentation with Math concepts of greater complexity as the children instinctively began to form patterns with the colored beads!

Science concepts were reviewed as we talked once again about how and why a kernel of corn expands when heated and eventually "pops," turning into something delicious!   

The children demonstrated their knowledge and love of literature as they requested their favorite stories by a beloved author!

The children delighted in the exercise of social and gross motor skills as they played on our Field Trip to the Elm Avenue Town Park Playground!

Play is fun!  Play is a source of great joy!  Play is also a wonderful vehicle of  learning for children and adults of all ages!  Remember to always take time, and/or make time to Play!

Have a fun and restful weekend!