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

Did you use glue for your Easter Egg project?

Oh no! In our book, why did the eggs crack?

What wiggly thing did Ms Kristin bring for Show and Tell? 

Thursday: Wiggle Day!

WIGGLE LINE PROJECT: We made wiggly line easter eggs today by placing wiggly pieces of paper on clear adhesive paper. These will be beautiful when displayed in a window for the Easter season!

We worked with some wiggly wobbly eggs in the Egg Mazing egg decorating machine too.

WIGGLE STORY: We read an Easter story called Little Chick’s Happy Easter about some very wiggly eggs that cracked! The baby chicks hatched out at the end of the book…it was a double surprise book!

WIGGLE BOARD: Ms Kristin brought a vibration plate. Children were invited to put their hand and/or foot on it…it had a very calming effect. Then children were invited to bring their Show and Tell things or other classroom toys on it after Snack Time.

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. 

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REMEMBER: No preschool next week! Happy Easter!

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!

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

Where did the wool come from for your Easter lamb?

Oh no! What happened to Clifford in our book today?

Why are we calling our Alphabet Friend Wooly?

Tuesday: WOOL DAY!

WOOLY LAMBS: We glued fluffy wool on cardboard to make little Easter lambs. Grandma Bonnie got her wool from a real farm from real sheep named Dorito and Edna. The dark brown/black is the natural color of the sheep-it’s not dyed!

WOOL WORK: Grandma Bonnie will be helping us all week with wool work. Today we started making our Alphabet Friend, Wooly, all soft and fluffy with real wool! Some of the yarn wool has been dyed red, blue and green.

STORY TIME: We read Clifford’s Happy Easter where Emily Elizabeth has a strange dream that Clifford gets all mixed up. Then we sang the chorus of “Baa Baa Black Sheep” but changed the color words to match Clifford’s designs!.

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. 

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

What did you add to make your paint bubble up?

Why did you NOT put vinegar and baking soda in your project volcano?

What did Ms Kristin spray in the air?

What fell on your face today?

Can you hear a pickle?

Thursday: V is for Vinegar!

VINEGAR PAINT PROJECT: We used pipettes to transfer colored vinegar to baking soda sprinkled on paper and watched the chemical reaction…kind of like a volcano erupting! We also scribbled more lava in our journals today!

VINEGAR + BAKING SODA REACTION: Ms Kristin brought out her volcano model again. There is a special tube that we put the the baking soda and vinegar in to see the chemical reaction: the carbon dioxide gas that’s made causes fizzing and bubbling. Her volcano is made of plastic so the liquid will not damage it….but putting liquid in our paper volcanoes would damage them, so we will keep them dry.

VINEGAR BOOK: After talking about pickles being made by adding vinegar to cucumbers, we read I Hear a Pickle and learned more about our 5 senses. We touched bubbles that fell down on us (just like in our book), we listened to the fan, we smelled lavender spray, we saw the last two Golden Letters on the ceiling and we had the option to taste (feel, hear, see and smell) pickles during snack time!

VINGER SHOW AND TELL: The Show and Tell things were safe from the vinegar which erupted out of the volcano…it’s like they were watching the show!

COPING SKILL OF THE WEEK: Our Coping Skill is Voo: making the vooooo sound on an extended exhale is proven to help activate the parasympathetic nervous system (PNS), promoting relaxation and reducing stress by stimulating the vagus nerve.

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

Who was in the Cloud Dough?

How did your volcano get bumpy? 

Why did you scribble in your journal?

What did our book friend Sophie feel like?

What did Ms Kristin bring for Show and Tell?

Wednesday: V is for Volcano!

WELCOME TO APRIL: With all the monthly things having turned purple, we even have purple dinosaurs in the cloud dough to go along with any volcanoes that are made there. We pretend our Alphabet Friend Violet likes to look there because of the purple things! 

VOLCANO PROJECT: We turned snow cone cups into volcanos with textured paint (Ms Kristin added coffee grounds!) and red, orange and yellow streamers for lava.

VOLCANO SCRIBBLING: We have our Volcano poem in our journal and everytime we said it, we scribbled more lava exploding out of the top!

You might think it’s just a V from our alphabet tune, but really it’s a volcano about to go BOOM!

VOLCANO STORY: In When Sophie Gets Angry-Really, Really Angry, we read about a girl called Sophie who feels so angry she feels like a volcano ready to explode! 

SHOW AND TELL: Ms Kristin brought out her volcano model and made it erupt by adding vinegar and baking soda to the hole. We put our Show and Tell things around it but kept them safe from the liquid!

COPING SKILL OF THE WEEK: Our Coping Skill is Voo: making the vooooo sound on an extended exhale is proven to help activate the parasympathetic nervous system (PNS), promoting relaxation and reducing stress by stimulating the vagus nerve. 

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