February Preschool
News
We
are into our second week of our theme, The
World of Color. Some topics covered
in this unit will be color names, color mixing, stains, fading, camouflage, and
color patterns. Through the Story Time
books, the children will hear about a dog that stains his white coat, a lion
who paints pictures, a boy who gets special letters from his grandmother, and a
rabbit who wants to buy a special shirt.
We will continue to learn about letters and sounds, including rhyming words
and the children will participate in music, poetry, mathematics, science, and
art activities.
Theme Concepts
*Color
is one thing that makes our world beautiful, both in nature and through art.
*Color
can carry information.
*Paints
and dyes are used to color other things and are mixed to make new colors.
*Different
substances can cause stains of different colors.
*Sun
and washing often bleach colors-make them fade.
*Color
is an identifying feature of many natural things.
After
reading Max’s Dragon Shirt, the
children had fun designing their own special shirts like the rabbit in the
story. Some made dragons and others
designed their own favorite shirts.
Right now, our Dramatic Play area is a Laundromat, where the children
are sorting clothes by patterns and colors, and working with coins. Some other activities this month will be
finger painting, matching colored objects to the colored picture, using an eye
dropper to mix primary colors on paper towels, creating secondary colors, adding food coloring to our play dough, and predicting,
observing, and writing about paper that fades over a period of three
weeks. The unit will end with our dramatic play area
being turned into a post office. The
children will take turns playing different roles (e.g. customer, postal worker)
at the post office, buying stamps, mailing letters, making special deliveries,
and stamping letters. The writing center
will allow them to write their own letters and postcards. It will be a busy and fun unit.
