Our Far-Away Friends

Today our preschoolers worked on their cut-and-paste letters for their far-away friends!  The kiddies worked hard experimenting with scissors and absolutely impressed.  When their clippings were ready to reassemble they were done so by number. Each little one enjoyed the challenge of finding, ordering, and gluing numbers 1-7, and needed little help from myself or Mrs. Hansen.  Titled and signed, our lovely friendship letters required just one more touch to complete!

On the backside of each letter our preschoolers finished their projects by drawing thoughtful pictures for the friends from afar.  Because the weather proved frigid this morning we decided to post-pone our walk to the post-office, but we'll be sure to have these priceless letters posted sometime next week.

Did you notice, these girls are sporting the color pink in support of anti-bullying campaigne Pink Shirt Day!

After Snack, Centers, and singing and dancing, both morning and afternoon classes closed our month of friendship by crafting special 'friendship bracelets'.  

Here's what we did...

• Before each class I snipped napkin-holder sized rings from paper towel rolls
• A cut into the ring width wise creates the band's opening
• Every child decorated a ring with foam stickers and markers and then gifted it to their friend sitting at their right!

Family Trees

This week we continued our discussion on family and friends by putting our hands to work creating beautiful family trees which portray a small scale family structure.  Using traced hand cut-outs as our tree's leaves and brown paint to fill in an oak's outline, our tree branches come to life tipped with green and accented by our love in the shape of a heart!

Look for your child's family tree the end of February and help them fill-in the names of their grandparents.  You can even add aunts, uncles, and cousins by tracing and gluing new handprints onto your tree!

 Have fun!

 

 

 

 

Mittens Warm the Hands, Friendship Warms the Heart!

February flew in with a flurry of snowflakes this winter and our preschoolers went straight to work equipping themselves with that which makes a cold month just a wee bit warmer... a cute pair of mittens!  But while mittens keep frost from out digits, we've learned there's a whole lot more to keeping our insides warm.  When we get that cozy and warm feeling in our hearts that's the sensation we call love, and February reminds us that those who give us that gift, our family and friends, are a very important and special part of our lives.


Kicking off February and our Mittens Warm the Hands, Friendship Warms the Heart topic, Grovedale Preschool designed smart mittens with string, foam stickers, and tissue paper to hang upon the hallway bulletin board.  To accompany these each student also created a friendship project which consisted of fine-motor practise, sensory fun, and blow-your-mind fashions!

These foam sticker kits included foam dolls with a great assortment of fun outfits for both boys and girls which could be mixed and matched.  Each child had a blast deciding upon which shoes best suited which hairstyle; the conversations were fabulous!

Each student was able to dress two foam children who, upon paper, represented friendship.  As each class played while they worked, we discussed what having a great friend means, why friends are important, and how our friends should be treated.


Once every foam friend was dressed to satisfaction, our preschoolers went to work getting... well... pretty messy!

Yes!  It was time to give friendship a high-five... no, two high-fives!  Using the colors blue and red, we turned our handprints into symbols of love.  And what a beautiful job everyone did doing it!

 



 

 

Great work Preschoolers!