Preschool Days

A couple of moms in the neghiborhood got together and decided to do a neghiborhood preschool. We each take turns teaching 7 kids. It's pretty fun, and you only have to do it 2 days every 7 weeks. It's been working out great. The kids are getting really good at writing their names and letters.

This week, it happens to be my turn. We always have a letter and a number of the day. Today it was letter G, and number 11. Thursday will be H, and 12.

For letter G we talked about things that start with G. Goat, girl, goodies, grandmas and grandpas, gardens, and grapes. For our craft I mixed three different colors of purple finger paint, cut grapes in half and we used them as stamps and made a bunch of grapes.

This is the sample I made the night before.

This is Kate's bunch of grapes.

For the number 11, I found a worksheet that had a tree and the number 11 in an apple in the corner. I also found some clip art of an apple, resized it and the kids glued 11 apples to their apple tree.

Here is the sample I made.

Here is Kate's.

It's fun to see how the kids incorporate their own ideas into art and craft time. Some kids colored their trees just like the sample, others made rainbow colored trees, some were solid blue.

Maybe Kate's tree is supposed to be a fall tree where all the leaves are dying and getting ready to fall off.

P.S. Kate was also very quick to tell me I had colored outside of the lines "just a little."