Today's Preschool! for February 15, 2013

Today, we start talking about the winter season! And, what better way to do it than with a fantastic, "indoor snowball," craft, new songs set to familiar tunes, and then some! Check out the visual schedule and here we go!

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LET'S SAY HELLO!:

TABLE WORK:  It's so cold outside, but snow is so much fun. Why not try making some Indoor Snowballs with this craft!

WINTER SONG:

SENSORY PLAY: This comes straight from insidiousglamour.hubpages.com and was so good that I had to share it. It's about a mom who enjoys playing a very special kind of "Hide and Seek" game with her little one. Instead of people hiding, though, we use objects instead. Dice are particularly useful, but we've used army men, small superhero figures, coins, and even pebbles. Pretty much anything that's small and you don't mind getting it a little messy. I hide the objects inside a bowl of shaving cream, or sand, or colored water, or even balls of Play-Doh. Sometimes when working with water we use two different temperatures because he has difficulty distinguishing between hot and cold. I've also hidden larger pebbles (maybe the size of a quarter) in bowls of tiny beads. This game is a little harder for him because the feel of the objects is nearly identical but the size is different and forces him to work a little harder.

GETTING READY TO READ:

GOODBYE SONG: