Tuesday, July 23, 2013

Preschool Post: Pond Study

 

Since we are fortunate enough to live within walking distance of a pond, I thought this would be a perfect unit.  We’re going to spend a few weeks on it since there is so much to cover!  Here’s what he woke up to:

A pond themed small world

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His fishing game

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And some shelf work which I’ll add to as I see what he likes/dislikes:

Sorting and pond themed bead pouring

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Marbles on a “lilypad” and smaller pompoms with smaller tweezers (working on those fin motor skills!)

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A story basket for our fingerplay Five Speckled Frogs and a bug feeding frog (there are tweezers for this too but they aren’t pictured)

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He immediately went for the fishing game and told me all the colors!  “Great White Shark, Black Eel, Goldfish, Red Snapper”

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Had to add this picture since his fans were cooling each other off.

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I thought this bug feeding would be a little young for him , but he LOVED it!  He’s probably done it 20 times now which is how I actually got some pictures!  We used it for a math exercise this day to work on the numbers 6-8 which he has a little trouble with on the 1:1 correspondence.  He had NO interest in using forceps/tweezers for it since they were much more challenging than the tongs he is used to.

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Don’t mind the dried yogurt coating his face!

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