Ms Kristin

d is for dinosaur

we had a wonderful unit on dinosaurs in honor of d week. thanks to a couple of students, i learned more facts than i came in with. • • • • • • • we focused on the d sound by adding dots to precut dinosaur shapes. . • • • • • • •Continue reading “d is for dinosaur”

o is for orange

this is one of my favorite activities…we do it for all secondary colors. this month we honored orange. after squeezing a bit of red and yellow paint in a baggie and then sending it around the circle for all to squeeze so we can make orange, we move to the project table. when given aContinue reading “o is for orange”

l is for leaf

touching on the concepts of symmetry and leaves changing colors in autumn, we made leaves. on a precut leaf shape out of big manila paper, preschoolers drew with red and yellow crayons where they wanted the paint. a teacher covered their lines with paint folded over and rubbed like crazy (without worrying about paint thatContinue reading “l is for leaf”

a is for apple prints

we had a table covered with paper, every color of the rainbow of paint squirted on, then half a dozen apples plus one hegeapple for us to roll back and forth. messier than i thought but loads of fun.

c is for crayon

i tweaked these little tins some time ago using duct tape to keep our crayons sorted by color. i never imagined how often children would dump out all the crayons just to resort them again. or in the case of this photo, find more crayons and sort those too.