Here Comes Spring ... Right?

Mrs. Peavey let us know that The Very Hungry Caterpillar Day is on or around the first day of Spring, which fell on a Thursday, at least on our preschool calendar. We celebrated in cahoots with that caterpillar and ate four strawberries apiece (the exact same feast the caterpillar ate on a Thursday!) while watching Eric Carle read the book online. Also, the kids made caterpillars out of playdough ... Very engaging activities for preschoolers. But where is spring, I wonder?

Celebrating Rainbows (a nod to St. Patrick's Day)

St. Patrick's Day is certainly a fun one, but we were going for multiple rewards from some carefully chosen creative projects that would honor the holiday, without going over the top on the excitement factor. Rainbows created from colored cereal was a great fine motor activity, as well as a test of the self regulation strengths of our kids. (One student ate one piece of cereal - that's it - amazing!) We also made hand kites by slipping ribbons the colors of the rainbow onto plastic rings, then taking them outside and running, running, running with them. Here are a few pictures so you can join in on the kids' celebration.

President Obama goes to preschool ...

Tuesday, March 4th, President Obama visited a Tools of the Mind Pre-K classroom in Washington, DC. (That's the same curriculum we use here at Dike Newell School!) Here is a link to watch their Message of the Day activity that your kids also do every day in Bath, Maine.

  http://www.cbsnews.com/videos/president-obama-gets-schooled/

This Washington preschool was doing the hospital theme as well!

One group picture and lego play

At our normal recess time today, the wind chill was borderline, so we stayed in with our beloved legos. I took pictures of the lovely setups the kids made, and promised to post them on the blog, so here they are.