Leap Ahead Learning Preschool: It's "time" for spirit week!

We've got spirit, yes we do! We've got spirit, how 'bout you?! There is nothing better than staying in your PJ's all day,right? That's what we did this week. Along with wearing our silly hats and silly socks. I just love all of these faces!

We talked about clocks and time this week. We discussed the basics of the hour and minute hands. We talked about how their are 24 hours in a day so the hour hands goes around the clock twice each day. We only practiced time on the hour, so our minute hand was always on the 12. Here the kids were instructed to set their clocks to 9 o'clock.

This giant clock helped us see that the 12 is at the top of the clock, and numbers 1-12 go all the way around the clock. We took turns throwing our bean bags in each hole starting at number one, and ending at number 12.

These clocks had a hula hoop for a circle, the numbers 1-12, and 2 clock hands. We raced to see who could put their clock together in the correct order first.

We continued our clock practice at this center. We turned over a card with a time on it (always ending on the hour still), and moved our clock hands to that time.

Trying to teach kids the concept of time can be quite difficult. At this center, we timed ourselves for one minute. We discussed how one minute is 60 seconds, and we had a sand timer to try to build some different puzzles within that minute. We also counted for each other to work on our counting skills.

These cute caterpillar counting books are great at home practice to help us count to 20. They not only show the number, but the word number, and you can also count the caterpillar if they still don't know the number by sight quite yet.

During spirit week, I often times like to get out my magnets. In fact, this day was all about magnets! Every center was something with magnets! This counting center below had our counting chips and magnetic wands to help us with our numbers.

This table had many magnets for the kids to explore. they were told to try to get all of the magnets out of the water-filled vases, without touhing the water! They also had different manipulatives to show how magnets attract and repel and how you can move things too.