After last week’s wonderful experience of starting our day outside, we did it again. Along with an airplane project, we had books, puzzles, water play, vehicles, chalk and bubbles. Read on to find the answers to 5 questions about today.
What was taped to the picnic tables when you got to preschool? Paper wings! Everyone could add any color to the paper with markers (including a few nacho cheese scented ones from this online preschool day). The next step was choosing a spoon and duct taping it on.
What else did Grandpa Kelven use the white duct tape for? Repairing the foam airplane! Ms Kristin knew it could easily break because it was made of foam and it did! But there was some clever detective work and collaboration to get the airplane back in working order!
Who got to blow the bubbles today? Anyone who wanted to! Often the teachers are the bubble blowers and the children are the bubble chasers, but today children blew bubbles too. The airplane flew right through them many times!
What did you do with your airplane spoons? Took them inside and ate applesauce with them! We talked about people (infants, elderly and all ages in between) who may be fed by spoon. There was a lot of sweet sharing about taking care of babies and recalling stories of being babies ourselves.
Thank you to a preschool grandma who used to be a preschool mom who gave us these plastic trays years ago! They were perfect!
During Snack Time, our friend Ms Ruby (who used to be a preschooler!) read us books. When she got to the Neighborhood Mother Goose rhyme Pat-a-Cake, Ms Kristin got two dolls to demonstrate different ways people might help a baby do the actions. One of dolls has 2 arms and one of them has 1 arm. We also imagined a baby with no arms available for moving and they all did Pat-a-Cake in their own way! I bet your preschooler can demonstrate.
Did you want to stay inside or go outside to play after snack? After (and during) Snack Time, we had wonderful indoor cozy play. When Ms Kristin announced that it was time to go back outside to play before the grown ups came, there was disappointment expressed. So Ms Kristin asked every child if they’d rather go outside or stay inside. Everyone said to stay inside! So even though it was only an extra 10 minutes, they played happily with puzzles, dolls, animals, cars, pretend computers, hiding in a pretend tornado shelter and building a Komodo Dragon den. What a sweet group of children.
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