The Rad Letter R

We had so much fun doing R activities this week! (And I didn't forget to take photos this time!)
The week began with rainbow fun. We started the day off with matching colored pom poms to the colors of the rainbow and gluing them down.

Then we played in rainbow rice! They quickly became very preoccupied with scooping and digging around and finding all of the little treasures that were buried inside.

This is what it looked like before all of the little hands started exploring through it. 

We read this book during snack time and talked about how colorful this rooster is.

Another of our R activities included this one where we used play dough and straws to practice writing the letter. I liked this one a lot because it also helped them practice their fine motor skills - bonus!

 Max

 Lynlee

 Jessa

After that we took the straws out of the play dough and they rolled pieces of it into lines and formed it to the R that was written on the paper on the table.

We also talked about rockets this week!

We talked about how they fly high up into the sky and into outer space. Then they each colored their own little rocket and we attached that to a small cylindrical piece of paper. Using a straw, they put the rocket on the end of them and blew into the straw. Mini blastoff!

Jessa and Lynlee 

Calvin 

Lynlee 

We had a special guest launch a real rocket for us! Chris set up a rocket and explained to the kids what was going to happen before he launched it. Then we all stood back and counted down. 3, 2, 1 - blastoff!