More Body, Our 5 Senses, and Feelings

In addition to learning about our bodies, we also are discovering our senses and feelings.  We went fishing for feelings and sorted the faces.  We used a screen board (rough) and squiggle pens to make drawings.  We reached into feely cups to figure out what was hiding inside and matched letter tiles to pictures of our body parts that sense things.  A favorite activity was the colored foam in the water table.  Mrs. D re-purposed foamed soap dispensers to make the fun foam.  We also worked on counting by rolling a dice and placing marshmallow teeth in the mouth cards and by counting pipe cleaner rings to put on foam hand fingers.  Not pictured was a sound matching game where we had to shake hollow wooden blocks and match the two that sounded alike.

Body Games & Activities

We have been busy, busy, busy learning about our bodies.  For our older ones, body bingo was played with blending sounds (f+ing+er= finger) or by listening to clues to figure out "What am I?".  We made playdough people and also lips with beans for teeth.  For other strong hands activities, we followed paths, traced Mat Man pictures, and used teenie tiny clothes pins to match numbers after counting hands.  We made lots of Potato Heads and played a Make a Potato Head game with a spinner (no picture).  One of the favorite activities was giving our babies a bath and practicing diapering them.

Mat Man

To begin our unit on the body and all about me, we started with Mat Man. Ms. Balmuth, our OT, giving us a lesson on how to draw and make people.  Man Man is part of the Handwriting Without Tears program that we use in preschool and that the elementary schools use to teach handwriting.  The kids learned that we always start from the top!  After the lesson, we all got down on the floor and started making Mat Men with a baggie full of pieces!

Big Pumpkin Story

Big Pumpkin by Erica Silverman is another Mrs. D favorite.  We read the story and listened to the CD and after we knew the story, we acted it out with fun hat props.  You can listen to the story below.

Halloween Fun!

We had a day filled with costumes, silliness & fun, special stories, lots of Halloween games, Trick or Treating in the administration building, and great snacks!  We finished our day with some fun Halloween brain pop dance videos and a flying ghost balloon experiment.  Thank you to all our parents who volunteered and sent in special snack goodies.

Icey Hands!

In our water table today were ice hands, colored ice cubes, and spider ice cubes.  We had fun playing in the cold water and watching the ice melt.  The water was a brownish color when everything finally melted.

Special Halloween Snack

We made jello eyeballs for our special snack!  Ewwww...