Children's art

Process:  It's all about the engagement, the exploration, the experiment. Process is an open-ended experience. It's you and the media and there are no right or wrong answers. It's  go with the flow and  see what happens. It's quite possibly messy. Even TOTALLY messy! 

This week we learned all about penguins and polar bears, we had a lot of fun playing with snow, paint, numbers and books. Something that I really enjoy a lot is having art as part of our class. Here are some samples of what we did and the children's final products using their creativity  and not a pattern. Enjoy!

Literacy in the classroom

Story time is one of my favorite activities of the day. Having all of my little friends sitting in front of me, waiting to see what new story we are about to read is priceless. I love asking them questions about the story, and listen to their very clever answers. Today we read  "The mitten" by Jan Brett  in Spanish is "El miton" and the children were laughing so hard imaging all the little creatures getting inside a mitten. We pretended to be the animals in the story by getting one by one under a white bed sheet that I placed on the floor. One of the kids was pretending to be the bear at the end of the story, so when he sneezed all of the kids ran out  in all directions from under the  bed sheet. It was so funny! Later I saw two of them retelling the story to each other. What a fun day!

Fun pics from last month

 Learning and growing together is so wonderful. At My Happy Preschool we learned through play and hands on activities all the time. Look at our pics!

Cutting skills

How exciting is to begin a new year with new ideas and lots of fun things to share with my little friends. Today I had a cutting center inviting children to come and see what I was doing. The first reaction of course was "OHH"  Can I try? I love when children are interested in trying new things, and get curious about it. At the beginning it was hard to learn how to fold the paper, and then trying to cut through several layers, but at the end they did great and the most amazing. thing was that every single paper snowflake was different just like they are different and special. 
 " I did it all by my self " said one of the girls when her mom arrived to pick her up. What a great activity to help the children with their cutting skills and with their self esteem

Our Learning Enviroment

Amazing me week!

Today we invited the children to write their own names on their paper. Many of the children cannot actually write their own name yet and others are already well on their way. But as each child begins to get in the habit of writing his or her own name on their art work or "making their mark", soon their name will begin to take shape but for now, any mark they make is just perfect.

Colors Week

Colors are all around us. We used cereal this time to incorporate different skills such as sorting, counting, gluing and more. This was a very fun learning experience plus the children learn their colors in english and spanish. Try it at home!

Los colores estan a nuestro alrededor. Esta vez utilizamos cereal para incorporar diferentes areas de aprendizaje como clasificar, contar, probar, pegar, escribir y aprender los colores en ingles y espanol. Intentalo en casa!