Spring B's Preschool - Week Six

Primary Book: Rapunzel

Enrichment Book: What Do Roots Do?

Activity: Wind chime

Activity: Bean Experiment Week Two

Field Trip: Visit a Farm that is planting

Art: Summer House

Poem: Mary, Mary

FF: Apple Blossom

What Do Roots Do? is an excellent book for children for learning about roots. The illustrations are perfect, the kids enjoyed the book and learned a lot from it! 

We didn't get to visit a farm this week but we did have a nice family day at The Children's Museum where the kids could pretend to plant and harvest on a farm. (Those pictures will follow on another post.) 

We have been enjoying our mini greenhouse and also planted in our Root Viewer; radishes, carrots and onions. They have already sprouted! Our beans in a baggie with a wet paper towel have also sprouted, we may have to plant them in soil soon.

The kids painted keys for wind chimes with our neighbor, Tracie. She is the local Kindergarten teacher and adores Tavin and Matilda, of course. ;-)

Some outside play. Rocks, sticks and mud are still a favorite.

Cutting some cheese for a snack. They are rather into using those little choppers lately. They both want to show their skills. "I want to do it all by myself!" is a common phrase.

Time for stencils.

On one of our play dates we went to a park that had a real train car!

Happy as a clam!

Painting more wind chimes. (I got these wind chimes from Oriental Trading.) Their friend, Benjamin, came over to paint and he brought his new baby brother. One month old! So sweet. It won't be too much longer before we have a little baby of our own!

Sometimes the dollar section at Target has some gems. The bug nets and houses have been a great addition to our nature studies.

The week went by quickly. We had some outside fun while the weather was nice, which is supposed to change for this coming week. Monday I had a prenatal appointment, those are weekly now. Baby is doing great. We spent the day at home but we did play outside. Tuesday was library day for story time. Wednesday we had two play dates. Thursday we had a friend over for play and painting. We also drew in our journals our observations of the bean experiment and root viewer. Friday we met friends for lunch and play time in the mall (there is an indoor play area) then we went to the park for more running and climbing!