Fine motor skills provide the backbone to any preschool program.
Through these skills, students are able to access several areas of development
For this activity, students used tweezers to move rainbow-colored pom poms from one area to another.
While doing so, they matched each pom pom to its corresponding color.
Color has been an intense topic of interest for thousands of years. Mathematicians, philosophers, physicists, physiologists, poets, and other disciplines have all contributed to our understanding of color.
In the 1600s, English physicist and mathematician Isaac Newton began a series of experiments with sunlight and prisms. He demonstrated that clear white light was composed of seven visible colors. Throughout our Rainbow Week, we really enjoyed manipulating different colors to see what would happen when they were combined!
For this activity specifically, we really enjoyed using paint and Ziploc bags to combine different colors.
Our young students enjoyed it because of the squishy texture of the bags, and the teachers enjoyed it because it was easy to clean up!
We just love to count at our preschool!
We are engaging in all sorts of counting activities! As part of our Rainbow Week, we used a few different materials to not only count, but create rainbows as well!
To do so, each student was given three different rainbow cards, upon which a number was attached. In addition to this, a pipe cleaner was taped to each card. Students were encouraged to slides beads onto each pipe cleaner.
They counted and matched the number of beads with the numeral on the card!
Including art as an important part of any preschool program can have an enormous impact on your child’s growth. Not only will it prepare your child for academic success in school, but it will foster early emotional development and offer your child opportunity to express themselves creatively.
When kids engage in an art project, even from an early age, they explore size and shapes. Kids begin evaluating and comparing objects, strengthening early math skills. More importantly, drawing, painting, and other art activities help kids develop spatial reasoning skills. For this activity, we practiced our color recognition skills by creating these fun rainbow collages. This was a three-dimensional activity so students we able to create three-dimensional art! Using a variety of colorful materials, your little ones separated small items by color. The finished product was a beautiful rainbow!
misscarriescorner 