Lots and lots of Rainbows!

First of all I wanted to let you know that I have moved some stuff around a little on here. I put the upcoming events, daily schedule, curriculum etc. on little tabs underneath the class picture. I hope everyone is able to find them ok. I am debating if I want to have someone do a web design for me so let me know if you noticed them on your own at all. Thanks!

We have been having so much fun the last couple of weeks learning about rainbows as part of our weather unit. It was a great time to lead up to St. Patrick's Day! The kids really enjoyed when we made our own real rainbow. All you need is a clear container filled with water, a dark room, and a flashlight. Shine your light through the container with water. Move it around a little until you get a perfect angle and a rainbow shows on your ceiling. :)

I have included some pictures of some of the other things we have been working on. It really has been a lot of fun, and I am sort of bummed this unit is over.

Weather Wheel! These are so fun and my little preschooler still loves to grab hers off the fridge and tell me what the weather is for the day.

We learned about the water cycle. I just draw a picture of it on a white board and I let the kids come up to take turns drawing fish, sharks, etc. in the ocean. Then we cut out squares and glued them onto our giant raindrop.

Afterwards we make a favorite snack called our Ocean Smoothie! I have included the link from the last time we did this snack. Warning: I would buy the sugar free kool aid and not add any, it tends to make some really and I mean REALLY hyper kids. :)

Ocean Smoothie

We made this fun art project that I found on this website:

Miss Morgan's preschool

I just love Miss Morgan's fun ideas :)

We didn't do ours on wax paper because I didn't have enough and didn't feel like running to the store. But I still think they turned out great! THe kids sure loved them.

Another favorite snack to make: Rainbow toast! Just dye milk the colors of the rainbow. Let them paint it on their toast and then toast it and add your favorite toppings. Ours were butter and cinnamon sugar.

Here are our litte Leprechauns we made. They were so funny because one little guy just wanted one eye so he could have a pirate Leprechaun and that resulted in Leprechauns having 4 and 5 eyes. No wonder they are so sneaky! They can see everything. :)

The Leprechauns came to our house and left little green footprints and lots of glitter all over Miss Julie's house! What a mess.

 They also left us a letter telling us that while they visited our preschool they lost their pot of gold. We followed some clues and found it waiting for us.

 What does a watermelon have to do with St. Patrick's Day? Well nothing really other than it is green on the outside. A little guy in class brought this to share with us for snack time today and it was delicious!

 Green Play Do during centers.

 Graphing our marshmallows from Lucky Charms. There were definitely more shooting stars then anything else.

We followed this recipe and made rainbow cupcakes today for cooking. They are so yummy and pretty.
Rainbow Cupcake Recipe

Also, I know some of you have asked when we are moving. It looks like our new house will be ready around the middle of April. I will for sure let you know! I am so looking forward to having more room for my preschool. It will be so nice. :)

5 senses and one messy day!

We finished up our 5 senses unit. Some of the activities we did for taste were talking about the tongue and the different taste buds that are on our tongue. I showed them a tongue map and we talked about the different types of tastes (bitter, sweet, sour, salty). Afterwards I had them try different types of foods and see where on their tongue they could taste them. The first was UnSweetened chocolate. The kids were so excited to have chocolate and all of them except one thought it would be sweet. One little guy predicted it would be bitter. Their faces of joy quickly turned into disgust! They were all running to the garbage can to spit it out. I had a good laugh. :) Next we had potato chips for salty. They all loved this! And then lemons for sour. Some of the kids wouldn't even try the lemon. Last was some orange slices which were sweet. Of course this was everyone's favorite.

Just put the chocolate in their mouths.

Now the fun begins.

 Love this face! poor guy

Eating a lemon :)

Sugar makes everyone happy.

For sight we played a game of looking at a tray of 10 objects for 30 seconds. Then I would take something away and they had to try and remember what they saw and figure out what was missing. We also made some eyes out of carrots, cream cheese and olives. They were a yummy snack and would be fun to make for a Halloween party.

To finish off our unit I had the kids bring something from home that made a sound. We played a game to "Guess that Sound." They stood behind a blanket and made noise with what they brought while the kids guessed what was making the noise. They really had fun with this. Afterwards we made this cute art project with all the 5 senses. Googly eyes for sight, Cotton ball dipped in perfume for smell, licorice rope for taste, bells for hearing, and felt or sandpaper hands for touch.

 Having some fun with the licorice.

 What an adorable angel she is :)

We are starting our weather unit. On Thursday we watched the book Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs. I say watched the book because I couldn't find mine and luckily I found it on YouTube to show on my Apple TV. Here is the link: Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs

We then made some umbrellas since we have been learning about Letter U and had whatever food they wanted, to be falling from the sky. The kids loved this and most had candy, ice cream and chocolate. Although I loved one little guy's idea of money falling from the sky. Wouldn't that be nice?

For cooking this day we made Spaghetti and Meatballs! The best comment when I told them we would be making this was from a cute little girl. She said, "Yes! Finally I get some meat at this place!"

I would only recommend doing this activity if you are prepared to clean up a big mess of spaghetti noodles :) It was a lot of fun though and the kids loved it!