Team Ostler: Luke's First Day of Preschool

9.29.2010

Luke's First Day of Preschool

After a week of sickness in the Ostler household, we were finally able to start Luke's preschool last week. We are doing it with two of his little friends, Johnny and Bhargav and us moms take turns teaching. The first day was at our house and we had a great time. We learned all about the letter A and did lots of fun activities with apples.

I made these mats for the boys to sit on when we do our circle time and story time. Well that's the idea. We all know that 3 year olds can only sit so long, but these 3 actually did pretty good once they realized that the mats were for sitting on and not playing with.

For a snack they made scary mouths with apples for the lips, marshmallows for the teeth, and peanut butter for the the gums. They really liked this.

We read the story "Ten Apples up on Top" by Theo LeSeig (aka Dr. Seuss). If you haven't read it you should. The kids loved it. It's about some animals who like to balance apples on their heads and do tricks. After we read the book the boys balanced these cute apple bean bags that I made on their heads. They got to 2 apples but any more than that was just too hard for these little guys. It was cute to watch them try.

We made these fun apple trees with the letter A for the trunk and the apples finger painted on with red paint. (Sorry it's sideways. I couldn't get it to rotate the right way in the upload.)

2 comments:

Kristen: Cute ideas! The apple mouths are especially cute!!; September 29, 2010 at 5:14 PM
Amber: Could you be any more creative!? Love it! Also, in the picture of Luke in the bedroom balancing the beanbags he looks just like a picture of Jim when he was young and I was a baby. I'll have to find it.

The apple beanbags are darling.; September 29, 2010 at 11:32 PM

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9.29.2010

Luke's First Day of Preschool

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