W
is for...
is for...
WAITER/WAITRESS
WALLS
WORMS
WATER
I had preschool duty last week - letter W (obviously). On Monday I introduced the WATER CYCLE, starring "Drippy the Raindrop." I had them watch a little story I'd found on the Internet about "Drippy" then we talked about evaporation, condensation, precipitation, and collection by acting the cycle out with puppets. I showed them how water evaporates when it gets hot (by boiling water on the stove). Then I had them each dip a cotton ball in water and then squeeze it out (to demonstrate rain). Quite honestly, I thought it was going to be way over their heads. But my little preschoolers are much smarter than I give them credit for. They understood it really well and were even able to recite the cycle back to me on Friday when we reviewed!
On Friday the kids pretended to be waiters and waitresses at a restaurant (Tyler's favorite thing to order was "chicken ordo blue" - he has very refined tastes!), they rode the "Windy Wally Express" (my train made out of boxes!), magically turned water into winter water (ice), and made pudding dirt cups with worms in them. As a final activity (to help the kids wind down from such a busy day) I had them build walls out of Legos. It was a fun week!
On Friday the kids pretended to be waiters and waitresses at a restaurant (Tyler's favorite thing to order was "chicken ordo blue" - he has very refined tastes!), they rode the "Windy Wally Express" (my train made out of boxes!), magically turned water into winter water (ice), and made pudding dirt cups with worms in them. As a final activity (to help the kids wind down from such a busy day) I had them build walls out of Legos. It was a fun week!
4 comments:
Josh and Ben ADORED windy wally... they still talk about it and at first I was trying to figure out what a windy wally was! I think the waiter/waitress role play is pure genius. WAY TO GO Laura!
Wow! What wee wunderkind!
Okay, Ms. Creative. I have letter "v" in 2 weeks....send ideas my way!
Jen- Janelle had letter v over Valentine's day week so they did that, but the mom who taught also had them paint volcanoes and make vegetable soup. I thought it was pretty cute, and the kids loved cooking!
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