Leap Ahead Learning Preschool: Spring has sprung!

We have so much fun seeing our friends at school! I couldn't resist putting up this picture that captures these cute girls so nicely!

We talked about Easter and Spring this week (which actually happened the week before Easter). Below, Haylee is doing a puzzle shaped like an egg. It was a lot trickier than it looked! They had a lot of patience doing these puzzles.

Ta-da!

In the sensory table we had bird seed with different sized eggs to fill. They had fun seeing which egg had more seed, even if it wasn't the biggest egg. There were also some wooden carrots hidden in here, just ready to sprout. They were so happy when they scooped up a big scoop and found a carrot inside!

We played a counting and color game called Topsy turtle. The object is to see how many stepping stones they can place under the turtle without making him tip over. He lifts his legs up ever so slowly like a turtle would and then he tells the kids the color that they need to use. When he finally tips, the kids count how many steps they were able to stack.

Our writing center this week was sight words practice. We had words such as the, me, I, you, and they that the kids traced and read.

We also had a writing center that the kids could come and spell out there names in jellybeans.

For an art project, we used the microwave and made our own puff paint. We traced and designed our own Easter eggs, and then put them in the microwave for 30 seconds to a minute. As you can see, the kids were very excited when it came time to microwave!

We had to have some Easter fun this week as well. We used our throwing skills to score prizes out of our carrot shaped dartboard balloons. The first thing that the kids said when they walked into the room this day was "Whoa, that is a big carrot!" I'm just glad that they could tell what it was :)