Little Rays of Sunshine Preschool

04/09/2026

☁️🌦️The theme this month is weather. ⛈️☀️

Today, the children placed drops of paint onto paper and spun it, they observed how the paint spreads outward in colorful patterns. This activity encouraged scientific thinking, creativity, and sensory exploration. The spinning motion allows children to see how movement affects liquids, similar to how wind and rain move through the sky during different weather events.
By using a variety of colors, the children explored color mixing, noticing how new colors form when paints blend together.

Through hands-on exploration, this activity combined art, science, and weather concepts, helping the children build creativity, curiosity, and early scientific thinking through play.

02/18/2026

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11/24/2025

Making turkeys with clay and feathers! 🦃

11/21/2025

P requested cake pops! So we made some, they were delicious! 😋

11/21/2025

We have been enjoying the last few weeks of fall! By going on leaf walks, building dens, climbing trees, squelching in thick mud and going on nature walks! 🍂🍁🌳

09/10/2025

September is Apple month! Here are some of the things we have done!

08/07/2025

Yesterday, was full of writing and drawing! The children played schools and practiced writint their letters and numbers together. The older children modeled to the younger children how to form each letter/number. ✏️

08/05/2025

Today, we focused on word building. We played a game where we had to take turns pulling a letter out of a bag and identifying the letter sound. Once we identified the letter sound we looked at the picture on the board and had to work out where the letter went to form each of the words. We recognized that the pink shells were vowels, and the blue ones were consonants which helped us identify where to placed them. After this activity the older children challenged each other by playing hang man and the younger children had to work out what the missing letters were.

Phonemic awareness: Understanding that letters represent sounds and using this to build words is part of early reading skills.
Problem-solving: Figuring out where letters go in words encourages critical thinking and pattern recognition.
Memory and recall: Remembering letter sounds and word structures supports working memory development. Turn-taking games:
Reinforce logical sequencing and strategic thinking (especially in games like Hangman). Expressing ideas verbally: Children explaining where letters go helps in developing oral language skills.

07/23/2025

06/18/2025

It’s ok to get messy!

06/18/2025

One of our favorite summer activities, Tie dye bears! This activity explores color mixing, fine motor skills by filling the bears and squeezing the paint onto the bears.