Field trip to the BYU Planetarium

In order to schedule a preschool showing at the BYU planetarium, you have to have minimum 20 people.  So we combined with Jennifer Patterson's preschool and we even had a couple neighborhood friends join us, too!  

After the show and running all over campus, we decided to swing by the mall for the big Mervyn's demolition show!  

Zebras and zig-zags

Here we are at Z!

We talked about zebras and their stripes and then each of the kiddos got to glue the stripes on their letter Z zebras. It was so fun to see how different each of them turned out.

Zebras!

We talked about other things that start with the letter Z like zippers, zeros, and zig-zags.
There were 4 zig-zag racetracks set up for each of them to drive on. Lynlee and Jessa tied for the first race, and Calvin eventually upgraded to driving two cars at once!

Veggies, vases, and volcanoes

We started this letter off by talking about vegetables. We did some vegetable stamping with peppers, broccoli, carrots, and green beans.
Lynlee and Calvin really liked using their peppers, Max was partial to the broccoli, and by the end of this activity Jessa's paper had a bunch of little green bean dots.

Then they picked out pictures of vegetables and glued them inside a letter V.

Jessa

Max

Lynlee

Calvin

Next we did some vegetable taste-testing. Peppers, carrots, broccoli, and peas were on the menu!

They put some flowers in a V vase complete with stems and leaves.

We watched a couple of short videos about volcanoes so we could see how they erupt before the kiddos made their own out of construction paper and glue.

They then got to make their very own volcanoes erupt! Each kid got a jar with baking soda and red sprinkles in it. We took them out on the grass and some vinegar was poured into each of them so we could see the eruptions take place. So fun!

Field trip to Bridal Veil Falls

We went on a little field trip to Bridal Veil Falls.  We started our day with a picnic.  We ate our yummy lunches and when we finished he ventured toward the falls

 

Jessa, Lynlee, and Calvin were more than happy to pick dandelions for the moms.

 We made it to the falls and the kiddos were happy to see the pond full of fish and also had fun feeding the fish.

 Group pix before we head home after our fun adventure at the falls.

Xx is for xray and x marks the spot

We talked about the letter X and practiced making an "X" with our fingers.

We talked about going to the doctor and having the doctor take a picture of our bones. 

We colored and then added bones (q-tips) to our x-ray fish.

 We also put together a puzzle of a picture of what our bones look like in our body.

 

Calvin

 Jessalyn

 Max

 Lynlee

On our second day of school we pretended to be pirates and we followed clues to our pirate gold.

The clues took us all over the house and yard as well as in the flowers.

 "X" marks the spot.  Our clues led us to our yummy pirate gold nuggets.

 While we ate our pirate gold we colored a pirate and practiced writing the letter X

red light, green light, Yield...Letter Y

We did letter Y this week in wee school.  On the first day we talked about Yellow.  We read Living Color, a really cool book that talks about animals and their many different colors and what the colors mean--danger, warning, poison, camouflage, etc.  We read just the yellow pages, and learned about a spider that turns yellow when he crawls into a yellow flower to hide and catch his lunch, a yellow fish that hides in yellow seaweed, a yellow crab that lives in yellow sand, and many more!

We then went on a Yellow scavenger hunt and filled our bags with yellow things we found on our walk outside.  We used our scavenger hunt treasures to make crayon impressions on our paper.

On day two, I had no idea how to introduce a Yodeling Yak to the kids, so I decided to stick with Yellow.  We reviewed the Yellow animal book, and remembered that some animals were Yellow as a warning.  We read the Richard Scarry Building a New Road story from the What Do People Do All Day book, and tried to find all the yellow road signs.

We talked about all the different Yellow road signs that help us be safe when we're on the road.  There are so many!  Yield, railroad crossing, people crossing, cows crossing, tractors crossing, merging, watch for icy roads, wet roads, etc.  We also talked about the street lights that have red for stop, green for go, and Yellow for Yield, or slow down.

Then we went outside for a fantastic game of Red Light, Green Light, Yield.  Red and Green were stop and go, respectively, and if I held up a Yellow Yield sign, the kids had to pay attention and do what the sign said--make a train choo-choo sound, run around in a circle, go slow, moo for a cow crossing, make a tractor noise, squiggle run...  What fun!