We continued our APPLE theme this week and did several apple inspired preschool activities.
MATH...
We laid out our number cards (from the Target dollar section a couple of years ago) from 0-25 and then counted out the according number of "apples" (cranberries from the target fall decorating section). Smiley is a hands-on learner, so he really enjoyed this activity.
We then added in his Lightning Mc'Queen car, who had to find the number that mommy yelled out. BIG HIT! I think Smiley really benefitted from seeing the numbers 11-20 laid out in order below 1-10. Before, he struggled with the order of 13-19, but seeing them below 1-10, really seemed to help him :)
We then built car tracks from one number to another and he enjoyed driving his car along the road...
Writing/Fine Motor/Sensory...
Smiley is not very interested in writing with a pen just yet, which is fine with me. He is still very young and lacks some of the fine motor control. But, he really likes writing letters in shaving cream :) We worked on the letters L and F.
Again, a car was involved ;)
He washed his cars for about 20 minutes :)
The kids were really into building with blocks this week and worked on making towers several times this week.
On another day, we wrote our letters (again L and F) in some leftover yogurt. I am glad we did this on a clean tray, since my kids decided to lick the yogurt off their fingers (strange, how yogurt is so much more appealing this way...;))
Smiley used tweezers to transfer beans...
And then transferred the beans with a spoon to a baby bottle...
On another day, he transferred water with a little spoon...
Coloring his new sight words "this, says, of"...
Decorating his sight words with cheerios, beans and lentils...
The kids helped me put together some fall decorations...