Preschool Parable of a Sower/Gardening Theme Wed 2/27/12

Wednesday was a very busy day here!  

J and K have just discovered the gardening tools from my gardening bag! They were very excited!

 Here they are at our sensory box, which still has the coffee grinds.  They brought many of the gardening tools over and put them in here!

 This is what the science center looked like after they had explored the tools and the bag! As you can see, the bag has almost nothing left in it!  The gloves are scattered all over the tools were in the sensory box - or else where!  They also thought it would be fun to have a "sword" fight with them!  I ended that quickly for everyone's safety!  :)

Although this is not part of our theme, I had to take a picture of J working so diligently at building with the Lincoln logs! These were actually my oldest two children's and I held on to them because I had planned to open my own daycare or preschool.  

 Here is another picture of  him building, he wanted to make sure I got another picture of him looking! You can also see our lovely little playroom, well about half of it!  I still have labeling to do in there, I'm hoping to get to this weekend.  Each time I add something to the room I then rearrange everything and end up needing to relabel.  It's needed relabeling for a while now!!

Here J and K are at our writing/literacy table cutting out pictures of seed packets and flowers.  They were so busy and very involved in this!  I also had our colored construction paper and tape, I think glue sticks too.  J cut out the seeds packets so very neatly and then glued four of them onto a small piece of brown construction paper.  I'll have to take a picture of it and add it to this post.

 The next two photos above is littlest little K sponge painting.  In the top one, I had only just set the paint out and she starting dumping it and sponging!  I had planned on pink and purple paint, but she had added red paint to the tray that was going to have purple, so I added a little white to the red and mixed it then I added some of that to the purple (at her request).  The other tray had just pink  :) Before I added white, she had used red alone.  She really enjoys painting!

Here J is using this paints I had picked up at Yankee One Dollar, which sadly, is closing!  A Joanne Fabric's is going in, in it's place.  Yankee One Dollar had so many craft items..for only a dollar! Going to miss them! Anyway - these look like a  pen or some sort, but have a brush tip at the end and liquid water color in them. I made sort of and oval shape with the paper (our shape of the week).  

Here is K painting at the easel.  The brushes do require some major fine motor skills because you also have to squeeze them, a little to get some paint out.   

Here is J "sponge" painting, which as you can see, turned quickly to "hand" painting!  Oh well, he got his art and sensory experience in one shot and had fun doing it!

This was our Wednesday!  The activities were enjoyed by the children and it was a busy and productive day.  In case you're wondering why no Tuesday, we have a co-op/playgroup we attend on Tuesdays which takes up a few hours of our day, we also usually grocery shop on Tuesdays.  The unfortunate thing, we didn't get to our circle time.  We got a late start both Monday and Wednesday.  That happens sometimes!  We're still working on getting back on track after a very sad and crazy January.