Summer Preschool

So I decided to have a Summer Preschool at my house for June, July, and August.  If you want to read more about it, go to summersuccessprek.blogspot.com.  It was an adventure and a learning experience!  I worked really hard to try and plan fun activities and also to make it academically appropriate for the kids.  I had between 5-6 kids every month.  Enjoy some random pics of activities we had.  Above: our theme for June was insects.  Students created paper plate ladybugs one day after we read The Grouchy Ladybug.

                                                       Here is Alayna sorting her shapes

Eric Carle inspired tissue paper art

They painted butterflies.  On the last day of June, we took a field trip and walked to our neighborhood park where we went on an Insect Hunt, drew pictures of what we saw, and read bug books.

In July, our theme was Water.  We played with water and studied properties of water.  We also talked about flags and had Ice Cream Day.

We talked about Pirates for letter P and how Pirates sail on the ocean.  Here is Alayna with her pirate face.

On the last day of July, we had a water party.  Before we played water games, they got to practice drawing shapes and letters in shaving cream!

In August, we talked about animals.  Here are the students making nests (out of chinese noodles and melted chocolate...yummy!)  On the last day, we took a field trip to a local family farm where we got to see horses, sheep, pigs, chickens, and cows. 

We had music time every day.  The kids loved singing and dancing!

It was a fun experience to watch the kids learn and grow and for me to see if preschool is something I would really want to do out of my home in the future!