B is for a Beautiful Week!

We have had some perfect fall weather this week and have been loving it! Along with finally feeling like we can get outside without cutting through the humidity, we have been busy learning about the letter B and numbers 3 and 4! In addition we worked on creating AB patterns and sequencing objects by size.

Here is a little look at our week:

Monday: After our morning circle time, we sorted through our grab box to find objects with the /B/ sound. After looking at all our objects that started with B we sang the song Bringing Home a Baby Bumble Bee (it was a hit and has been sung many times since!). Below are pictures of our other "B" related activities that I was able to capture on with the camera!

For story time we read The Big Blue Spot By: Peter Hollwitz
It is a really cute story about one blue spot who travels through the book in search of a friend. Toward the end he  finds a yellow spot. They discover that together they make green!

We experimented painting with blue and yellow . They had dot paint brushes to work with  since the book was about a dot, but their artistic sides took the pictures in a different direction! : )

Painting always turns into finger painting at our house! They  threw around the idea of painting  with their feet too, but I thought hands were enough mess for one day! They'll love one of the art projects I found for the letter C because it involves painting their feet!

We spent our outside time looking for bugs (though I am sure we will still be out in the backyard looking for bugs even while we learn about the letter Z. )It is Ava's absolute most favorite thing do do outside! Notice the large spider in her bug box. She came up to me very excited. I said, "Ava I sure hope you didn't pick that up with your bare hands!" Her response, "Oh don't worry Mommy, he's a nice spider." YIKES! After looking at it more closely, I think it was actually dead! Good thing! We have since had to have a bug handling lesson. Unless its worms from the garden, gloves, tweezers, or shovels must be used to get the bug into the bug box! Maybe she will study bugs when she is older.

Dominic loves to play alongside his big sister. He was out bug hunting too! 

The kids worked on some beading. Dominic wasn't really into yet. Ava and I also spent some timing making patterns on our magnetic board using bug magnets that I created. And of course, she practiced writing the letter B!

Tuesday: Bear Day! Ava and Dominic rounded up their teddy bears to join us for school. We did the Teddy Bear Dance and sang Going on a Bear Hunt. 

We read the big book version of Goldilocks and the Three Bears

After reading our story, we worked on sequencing cutouts of bears, apples, pumpkins , and hearts from biggest to smallest and smallest to biggest. 

We picked three bears to measure. Ava determined how tall they were using  blocks stacked together. We compared the height of each of the stacks to decide where our bears should go in the line-up of biggest to smallest. Ava thought that all her other bears should be lined up too, so she figured out where to put them too! She thought it would make a good picture if she were in the line up! I have to agree!

Wednesday- B is for bugs! We had to spend at least one day talking about one of Ava's favorite things- BUGS! We had fun singing our bumble bee song, searched for capital and lowercase Bs among lots of other letters on the white board, and worked on AB patterns. We read Creepy Critters for story time. See below for pictures of a couple other activities we worked on during our school time! 

While big sister worked on practicing using a glue bottle and  gluing lady bug spots,  Dominic  practiced using a glue stick by gluing shapes onto construction paper. 

Ava was given 4 lady bugs. Each had a number written on them.  She had to glue the corresponding number of spots on each bug. She loved using the "adult" glue as she calls it! 

During our work time, Ava worked on making a bug book. She had to color  each bug  a specific color. She was so excited to "read" the book to her Daddy! Dominic didn't want to be left out, so he worked on one too!  The book was a free printable from  http://prekinders.com/bugs-theme/. 

We felt it important to include a religion component to our preschool. We purchased and are following Catholic ABC’s. This week Ava will learn that B is also for baptism! My husband will work with her over the weekend on these activities. Catholic ABC's  is a curriculum put together by Lacy from http://catholicicing.com/ Her blog is an awesome resource!

I better start planning some letter C fun for next week!