A Tasty Pattern

These erasers are a tasty way to sort, count and create patterns.  Why do we sort and create patterns? Sorting and creating patterns will help your child's math skills.  For more info---

https://www.pbs.org/parents/thrive/using-patterns-to-boost-your-childs-math-skills 

A Piece of Pizza

Our TTh 3 y/o class will enjoy many activities with pizza this week.  We learned about the parts of a pizza. The crust begins as a dough.  The sauce is made of tomatoes and most 3 y/o do not like a wide variety of pizza toppings.

The children made a paper pizza.  We see such an improvement in listening and following teacher directions after just a few months and now using glue is easy!

Krazy for Kandinsky

We have studying the works of Wassily Kandinsky.  I was cutting paper plates for lacing cards and...

 our preschoolers created these!  Why so many circles? Ask your child!

We have learned that artists name their art.  Kandinsky's Black Lines brought out paper and crayons.  The children filled the paper with color and added black lines on top.

 

 

 

Food Science

The month of November is food and food science for our MWF classes.  Here's a quick look at what we have been doing:

We learned that all over the world children eat bread.  We learned new words: yeast, dough, knead, rise and much more. We watched naan and tortillas being made, visited a wheat field to watch harvest and followed the wheat to the flour mill.

Last week we learned about liquids and solids. Cream and condensed milk freezes into an ice cream treat for our Fun Food Friday. We will continue watching ice melt and freeze.  We are learning to observe and make predications when we do experiments.  We had water in one cola bottle and milk in another and observed the changes.

Can't get enough food science with your child and want to do more?  Check out these experiments with Steve Spangler---https://www.stevespanglerscience.com/lab/categories/experiments/food-science/

How Ben & Jerry's Ice Cream Is Made

PreK Chemistry

What happens when you add water to flour?  What happens when you add water to baking soda?

What happens when you add vinegar to flour?  What happens when you add vinegar to baking soda? 

Your child can tell you all about today's experiments.

We love doing experiments with our preschoolers.  We are constantly asking them to observe and predict what will happen during the experiment.  

This week we are learning about liquids and solids.  Does temperature change liquids?  Does temperature solids? 

We also did this experiment I found on Steve Spangler Science

It's cola, water and milk.  We added water to fill one bottle and milk to the other.  What happened?

For more info and how to---

https://www.stevespanglerscience.com/lab/experiments/invisible-soda/

Have some fun with food science and your child!

Brain Development in Your Preschooler

If there was something lowering the development in your child's brain what would do? 

https://www.cnn.com/2019/11/04/health/screen-time-lower-brain-development-preschoolers-wellness/index.html