Open House 24-25

 Everyone on my list came to the open house!

Did I get another child after the open house? Also, yes!  

 Read about past open houses here.

  2019 Open House

2023-2024 Open House

Signs and numbers from HERE.

My all about me sheet from HERE.

Getting to know you sheet from HERE.

The real wish list is found HERE.

This year, I grabbed these cute bee marshmallows $$$ at Walmart.  

After I bought them, then I looked at the price lol

I had no plan for them, so I needed a plan.  I found some tags HERE. 

I have used this setup for the last 5 years...

why have I NOT thought to 

add some cute frog cutouts on the side????

These props came from Dollar Tree several years ago.

I can't find my play dough tag or my clothes tag,

so I had some school-aged kids make some labels!

I need a slippers tag too lol

Those bins were like $2.62 for all 5!!!!!

I had the children sort their supplies.

May in Kinderpond- insect edition

 We kicked off our insect unit by getting a letter and a name tag for being entomologists in training!

This year, I added little paper critters that we are gluing in our bug collection.

Each day, we read a letter from that bug.

We draw that bug (we aren't doing the grasshopper or praying mantis- 

they are a little too difficult for all my children.)

We have school 4 days a week.  We journal all 4 days, 

but on the last day, we have totally free choice.

On regular days we have a two-page spread.

One side is for me and then the second side is for them.

They need to draw whatever they'd like using as many colors 

as they are old. Thank you Dr. Jean for that!

We did a directed drawing of a ladybug.

They can be four colors: black, orange, yellow, and red.

They can have spots or stripes!!

Bug stew from Pocket of Preschool

We took plastic bugs, nets, magnifying lenses, tongs, and a box.

We added them to grass ... Easter grass in the sensory bin.

Butterfly dominoes

Playdough stampers and mats.

The white ones came from Naier- check all my purchases. 

Fabric bugs

Flannel board pieces.

Here's a matching game.

Pick a toy bug and match it with the cardboard bug.

Magnet puzzle.

Pattern block bugs.

Ladybugs

I took a green craft stick with numbers on it.

The children clip that many clips on the green leaf.

Some clips are red and some I drew a ladybug on :)

These are for the light table.

The dragonflies are from Dollar Tree.

They were on a string of lights and I just popped them off lol

The creepy crawlies I think may glow in the dark.

The letters came from Target.

These bugs are HUGE. About the size of my hand!

They are in blocks area.

These are awesome for the insect unit- normally might put them in the calm down area.

These cutouts came from Dollar Tree.

I wrote a letter on each one.  

They made a match with a fly.

Then the partner would call out a letter and they would swat them!

This is a bottle drying rack lol

Children use tongs to pick up bugs and put them back in.

This is another sensory table.

Roll one of the number cubes.

Put that many bees (mini erasers) or pom-poms into the beehive.

This is our science center.

Here are more bugs and insects.

You can see our ladybug habitat.

There is paper and pencils to draw what they observe.