Thursday, September 17, 2009

Preschool Update

Andrew has had some fun at-home activities from preschool this month.

One big focus for this year is building fine motor skills to prepare for writing. We play with play-doh a lot at home, and he does at school too. Ms. Sharon sent home some Flubber for us to play with as well. Interestingly, I used to make flubber with my second graders when we talked about the states of matter. I didn't go quite that deep with Andrew while he enjoyed his flubber though.

Flubber is made from equal parts of glue and starch and then food coloring is added. It's really runny until you put pressure on it and then it forms into whatever you want. As soon as you turn loose, it's oozing all over again.




pretty sticky stuff


You can tell by his face that he's about had enough of flubber for one day!


We've also had our first homework project. Andrew brought home a poster board star that we had to decorate to tell about our family. We used photos and magazine pictures to make a collage. Here he is helping cut out a picture of a cat.




This was back when he had use of his right hand.





showing off the final project



Ms. Sharon also sent home a book about their class. She used photos she's made of the children doing various activities throughout the day. We got to see the faces of his new friends. We got to see them lining up for water, washing their hands and eating lunch, playing on the playground, and doing their centers in the class. It was great to see what Andrew has been up to. He's pretty good at telling us about his day, but I know he forgets things. Here he is reading the book to Daddy at night after bath.



We had to send the book back the next day so it could go home with another friend.
Andrew was very proud to show it to us.



1 comment:

Tina said...

Looks like lots of fun. Sounds like he has a great teacher.

Can you believe that I've never heard of flubber? I'll have to try this with the kiddos.