W is for Water: WEDNESDAY W WEEK

Here are some questions you can ask your preschooler about our day:

What did you spray in the bag of wool?

Uh ho! Who fell in the pond in our book today?

Oh! Did you dip a marker in a cup of water?

Do we have real bunnies who live near our playground?

Wednesday: Water Day!

WATER AND WOOL PROJECT: We finished up our wool work with Grandma Bonnie today…using warm soapy water to felt some wool. It took a lot of pressing, rolling and squishing! We moved Wooly the Alphabet Friend close by to “watch.” The sheep she got the wool from are named Dorito and Edna. Thank you, Grandma Bonnie!

WATER AND BROKEN MARKERS: Did you know? If you dip dried out markers in water, they work again! We did this in our journals, on little Easter Egg papers and real looking eggs (they are actually a kind of coated plastic).

The machine we used for the eggs is called EggMazing and it is indeed very amazing.

WATER STORY: We read Rosie’s Walk and found the water pond. She didn’t fall in it but oh no! The fox did! There were a lot of W words in this book: water, walk, windmill, wheat, wagon, and wheel. We also connected this story to our Easter Talk picture and our chick and bunny play space (today there was a pond added!).

COPING SKILL OF THE WEEK: Walking hands: “Walking” our hands on our laps is a form of bilateral tapping and can help reduce anxiety and stress by engaging both sides of the brain, potentially boosting feel-good neurotransmitters and promoting a sense of calm and emotional regulation.

If you walk to the edge of our playground you’ll see two flowering bushes: a purple lilac and a red quince…there are bunnies who live under each of them. We check on them daily and have learned to be quiet and slow enough to not scare them!