Lions and Lights

Lions and lights were the talk of preschool this week. It was an exciting letter to talk about because we know lots of family and friends whose name starts with the letter L! We had two days of home preschool this week since Ava attended the Home School Monday program at the museum. 

Here is a look at what we accomplished. 

On Tuesday we talked about Lions. We read Face to Face with Lions by: Beverly and Dereck Joubert and Nobody Laughs at a Lion by: Paul Bright. During our circle time we also discussed some basic facts about lions (Where they live, what they eat, how they live in prides) and even got to hear a lion roar and see a lion in action at National Geographic Kids. On Wednesday we talked all about lights. The kids are LOVING all the Christmas lights this year, so they had fun sharing all the places we see lights. We also sang This Little Light of Mine.

During art time, we made lion faces. I got the idea from the blog Teach Preschool  , except I chose to have the kids use paper strips to make the mane instead of colored pasta. Here is Ava's final product! 

Dominic LOVES to use the glue now! He needs close supervision or the above happens. This would be when the doorbell rang. Supervision went from me sitting next to him to 2 minutes of free reign with the glue bottle! 

Ava practicing her letter Ls

I think it is safe to say Ava has mastered identifying numbers 0-7, but 8, 9, and 10 continue to confuse her a little. So, this week we focused only on 8 and 9. I think she is getting the hang of it! 

We had some fun with the counting bears. first she sorted them by color, and then we worked on creating AB an d ABC patterns. She is getting really good at patterning! 

She wanted to count them before we picked them up. She was so excited that we counted to 50! 

We used sequencing cards to put an event in order from start to finish. The first event we did was building a snowman and the second was making chocolate milk. 

Dominic joined in on this activity too! 

On Wednesday we decorated letter Ls with Christmas lights. This idea came from
Little Family Fun. 

Ava worked on the next page of her ongoing alphabet book. 

I made Ava two pattern strips to practice patterning using Christmas light bulb cutouts. We did some together, and then I let her create her own. She glued her own down to the paper. This idea also came from Little Family Fun. 

Our Wed. practice with 8 and 9


Next week we will be having some Christmas themed fun!