Leap Ahead Learning Preschool: Winter time

Winter is here! Or, is it? Well, it was in our preschool this week...snow and all.

We talked about different winter items with these miniature look-a-likes.

We also had miniatures for the other 3 seasons.

We made these cute name snowmen. I got this idea from marcheseclowns.blogspot.com.

For a science center, we talked about how salt helps melt ice, which is why we sometimes see parents tossing it onto our driveways after a big snowstorm. We tried this out by helping our counting bears escape the ice blocks. We used water, salt, and a some tools to break and melt the ice. One class got all the bears out, and the other one came so close!

We also had these polar animal puppets and snow balls (cotton balls) and these animals had their own indoor snowball fight.

We learned about the 4 seasons and what happens within each season with these floor puzzles.

We are reviewing our shapes to prepare for our upcoming assessments, so we used our shape snowmen and helped them find their shape buttons. I found this cute snowman online, and adapted it to have different shaped buttons that matched our buttons.

For a math center, we fed the hungry penguins. Each penguin had a different number on his belly, and we fed them that many goldfish crackers. We fed ourselves some too!

And, we played in the snow this week too! Shaving cream snow, that is. We sprayed a small amount on the table and practiced writing our names in it. Surprisingly, not as messy as you would think. The kids liked the texture too. Some kids just do not like to get their hands messy, but every child but one tried this center.

We made some yellow yarn Y's. We talked about the letters Y and Z this week.

We had some mittens to warm our hands after we played with the bears in the ice. Addison is sporting them so nicely in this photo. And still working on her Y too!