FUN DAY'S IN JULY - ICE CREAM DAY

Since we were taking a curriculum break during the month of July, we needed some fun activities to keep us busy.  I found a great book at Lakeshore Learning Center that helps turn an ordinary day into a fun-filled themed day!  The book is called Preschool Fun Days. There are 30 single-day themed celebrations in this book - each include circle time, centers, art, songs and rhymes, movement, snack time and story time. 

 

I let Stella look through the book and she picked out a few celebrations that she wanted to do.  Her first choice was "Ice Cream Day"  Here's a few pictures of our fun.

 

We got a Playdoh Ice Cream Treat Center and made ice cream cones and sundaes. (This was messy)

 

Next we pretended to scoop ice cream into our bowls.  We used large pom-poms for ice cream.

 

 

 

Then we designed our own ice cream cones on a flannel board

 

We played a game of drop the sprinkles on our ice cream.  We used small pom-poms as sprinkles and tossed them onto our ice cream scoops.  We then counted how many sprinkles landed on the scoops.

 

 

We got creative and did an ice cream craft project.  We used real cones to glue onto our tagboard cones and painted our ice cream scoops.

  

 

 

We also added a few "real" sprinkles.

 

And last, we ate some ice cream.  Yum.  Sorry, no pictures of that.  We were too busy enjoying our ice cream treat.  Well - that was our Ice Cream Day.  The first of our "celebration days".  Thanks for letting us share with you.

 

FINALLY.....WE'VE COMPLEETED OUR ALPHABET

It took us a few weeks longer than I had planned, but we finally finished going through the entire alphabet (uppercase).  Above is a picture of our completed Chicka Chicka Boom Boom tree.  Below is a picture of Stella's alphabet necklace.  Each week we strung our "letter of the week" letter and now it is completely full.  Great job, Stella!

 

To help celebrate our completion, we made "alphabet soup".  Both Stella and Lyla loved doing this activity.  Here's a few pictures.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

We have taken the month of July off from our preschool curriculum.  We will start back the beginning of August, and this time Lyla will be along side of us learning her colors, shapes, numbers and alphabet introduction.  We're going to be busy!!!!!

 

Thanks for letting us share with you!