This month on the Older Pod Patio we’ve been diving into all the fun that comes with this month’s winter theme. We’ve been targeting major skills and concepts from our January skills sheet—the colors blue and white, the shape square, knowledge of arctic animals and winter weather. Check out some of the awesome things we’ve been exploring!
Welcome to 2022! It’s a new year and we are enjoying our classroom. Play is what we do and we do it well. Here are a few pictures of the class at play.
Everyday we get a new chance to explore our environment and play with each other.
And we get to do it all again next week!
🥳 Happy New Year! 🥳
It is a brand new year and there have been so many changes that we have gone through together. One big change has happened to the physical classroom itself! We moved some areas around and the flooring is different.
We have had a fun time this week exploring the differences and seeing what things are still the same.
Here is a quick look at what the classroom looks like now.
While there have been many changes we hope that one thing stays the same. That the Room 3 friends still enjoy coming to school and playing with their friends. We know that we love seeing all of you.
We hope you have a great weekend and we will see you all soon!!
Happy New Year from your friends on the Older Pod Patio! Check out some of the fun and festive activities we did in December…
We enjoyed gingerbread playdough!
We worked our fine motor muscles using gel sensory bags!
We did some STEM building with cups and ornaments!
We read to our Christmas cats!
We built with magna-tiles and jingle bells!
We enjoyed making Christmas sticker creations!
We cut pine needles and explored snow dough in our sensory bin!
We worked with friends to decorate our Christmas tree using loose parts!
We mastered our gross motor skills for the month by practicing going over, under and through the jingle bells!
We enjoyed cheering on our friends as they made their way through our Christmas obstacle course!
Stone Soup is a tradition at the preschool that we have done for quite awhile. You bring what you got and you put it in the pot!
The children love chopping the vegetables for the soup and then during lunch we all get to try the soup. Along with some fruit and bread!
Stone Soup teaches us about sharing and what awesome things we can do when we all work together! Thanks for all the yummy ingredients.
Last week we had some special visitors! Animal visitors in fact. Usually this time of the year we go to a farm and this year the farm came to us.
We talked about what animals we might see and what sounds they make. We also made some cool headbands to wear while we pet them.
It was so much fun seeing farm animals and getting to touch them. We ended our farm day by making paper plate animals; pigs and sheep. Some friends made more than one ( you’re welcome!)
Happy Thanksgiving from Older Pod Patio! This week we’ve been exploring fall flowers, cranberries, oranges, lemons, leaves and gourds. Check out the beautiful sensory soup we cooked up on our fun and festive Stone Soup days.
Leading up to farm days, we’ve been having some fun with “chicken coops” on the older pod patio. Our friends are rolling eggs down the coop, collecting them and packaging them in egg cartons. Check out our little farmers hard at work!
In the month of November, we explore life on the farm. We also focus on the colors yellow and brown. This week’s Older Pod Patio sensory bin is set up to intentionally highlight these three major curricular concepts.
Friends from Rooms 1, 2 and 3 explore brown oobleck—a solid substance that quickly oozes into a liquid. Checkout our little piggies playing in this perfect pretend mud!
Yay October! Fall has come and it has brought a few cool days (and some really warm ones) but with it we have a few special celebrations. Apple/Pumpkin Day is one of those special times that we get to celebrate; not just once but two days!From special snacks to art and fun stories we have had a couple of busy days. Here are a couple of pictures of what we did.
We also made apple prints and did a fine motor activity with apple erasers and tongs.
We loved having the opportunity to have parents in our classrooms and we look forward to seeing more of you guys as the year progresses!
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