Sight Word Sensory Hunt

We have recently begun a study on food and grocery store, so here is one of our activities. In the sensory table, I placed spiral pasta, foam letters, and various scoops, shovels, etc. Then, I added some sight words onto a bulletin board right above. The children are to hunt out the letters to try to spell their sight words. Not only does this give them practice with sight words, but alphabet recognition as well.

Also, I chose these sight words intentionally to reinforce what they have been learning on the bus.

Thinky Linky Thursday: A Day in Preschool

Here are some of the things we did since being back from winter break. (only 1 day) It was so nice to be back with my kiddos! Love them :)

Floating sailboats. Matching colors and shapes. One of my little girls made up her own song "I'm sailing, we're sailing together."

Love the way this little boy set up the dramatic play area with our new baby dolls! Setting the table shows understanding of 1:1 correspondence.

Isn't this snow angel adorable?!

For small groups, we sat at the discovery area by the window and looked out at the snow. We talked about winter and what happens to the weather when winter comes. Then we drew pictures of things we can do with snow.

My car-obsessed student decided to build this ramp/street/track to run his cars on. A bunch of other kids joined in. Just look at how he matched up the blocks to make them fit together. Excellent!

And lastly, we used these gear blocks (not sure what they're really called) to make letters. 

What have you been doing with your kids?

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Storytime Sunday: Water Play with Books!

Hello all! I am sorry I haven't posted for a while. Been busy with work and sick baby. Anyways, we took a trip to COSI (Ohio's Center of Science and Industry), a museum for kids. In the little kids' playspace, we ended up in the water area. It's little man's favorite. I decided to talk about some of the book in this area for Storytime Sunday and how you can use these water-friendly books to incorporate literacy in your water table area or wherever you might play with water!

So here are some concepts that preschool children can learn from playing with water.

 Here are some of the waterproof books. These are about different sea animals. They are also fun because they have squeakers in them.

Here is Rainbow Fish which we all know, but I never knew they had a bathtime version of it.

These books are wonderful for any type of water play including bath time. There are also a couple Sandra Boynton books as well that are great! Have fun splishing and splashing!!!