St. Andrew's Preschool

Thanks for celebrating Silly Sock Days with us this week!

Last Thursday students read Rainbow Fish. This is a story about sharing and friendship. At the art table, students used fun dauber markers to decorate their own fish. They used a down and up motion to make the circle dots for the scales. To finish off their rainbow fish, students glued on one glittery gem to represent the shiny special scale.

Today in class our students continued working with the letter R. We learned how to write capital and lowercase R’s. Next at the art table we traced another capital R. Then they used pokey rings as paintbrushes to decorate those R’s. Students tried creating patterns and noticed that yellow and red paint mix together to become orange.

Our T/Th class has begun to work with numbers. This week we started with #1. At the art table we decorated bears with fun fur. Students brought stuffed bears to class to hang out with today as well as have a parade and dance party.

This week our students are working with the letter R. On Monday we created rocket names at the art table. Students counted out the letters in their names to determine how many squares to select. Next they glued their squares to their papers and traced the letters of their names. They added a triangle to the top and stars to the sky to complete their projects.

Last Friday students used q-tips to paint capital letters Q’s. They dipped bundles of q-tips into each color of the rainbow to dab down and up onto their papers. They were so creative with their interpretations.

On Thursday, students used small pre-cut rhombus shapes to decorate snakes with diamonds printed on them. We talked about patterning and placement to make unique snakes.

Last Tuesday, students worked with diamond/rhombus shapes. For art we used wooden pattern blocks in rhombus and hexagon shapes as stamps. Students dipped blue rhombuses into blue paint and yellow hexagons into yellow paint to create flower art. Next they used green paint to create stems. We ended up with some beautiful gardens.

Our students worked with the letter Q last week. On Monday they cut out a capital letter Q. Next they painted liquid glue onto the Q and attached small fabric squares to make the Q look quilted. This was a fun multi step fine motor project.

Our T/Th class completed rectangle week with sponge painting. They used rectangle sponges and also circle sponges to create trains on pre drawn tracks. They practiced using an up and down motion to make lovely rectangles and circles.

On Wednesday our students completed two art projects. Our first project was painting a capital letter P purple with a pompom. We used our pincher fingers to dip the pompom into paint and then dab it onto the P. We also colored and assembled pinwheels!

Our T/Th students are exploring rectangles this week. We learned the sign language for rectangle and noticed that rectangles have two equal long sides and two equal short sides. We used many rectangles to create cows at art! This was a big multi step project that required students to focus on their cutting and placement skills. Check out the herd in our hallway!