Lakewood Child Care Center

It has been a busy week of St. Patrick’s Day themed activities. Monday in art the children painted shamrocks with a rolling pin and in language the children dug through green rice to find and identify letters. In math the children engaged in a visual discrimination activity to see which shamrock did not belong and why. Tuesday in art the children built a leprechaun by gluing all it’s parts together. In language the children dictated where they would hide their gold if they were a leprechaun and in math the children added orange pom poms to a leprechaun to build his beard! Qn Wednesday in art the children made a rainbow with fruit loops and mini marshmallow clouds. In language the children explored initial sounds by matching a picture to it’s beginning letter sound. In math the children added gold coins to a pot. Today in art the children worked on tearing paper and then gluing to a shamrock, In language the children practiced writing letters in trays of green sugar and salt. In math the children worked on color sorting while using their fine motor skills to sort fruit loops onto a pasta noodle. The fun part was the noodle was inside a pot! Tomorrow in art the children will glue together a scrap paper volcano and in language they will match color word to a rainbow. In math the children will engage in a leprechaun graph by rolling a picture die and adding a coin into each column it matches on the graph. This week in the block area the children worked with letter blocks. In science this week the children observed as we mixed colors by placing a red and purple ice cube in one container, a yellow and blue in another and a yellow and red in another. Also science the children explored gold rocks, textured shamrocks and pots. In the sensory table the children worked with small pots, plastic tweezers, green and gold coins and green rock crystals.