L is for Love

As is appropriate with Valentine's Day in February, we are learning about love and families this month.  In addition to some fun math activities, today we talked a lot about how to show "Love" towards others.  

We started the morning off with handwriting practice at the table.  Then the children transitioned into a matching game on the floor.  They had to put broken hearts back together by matching a number to the correct number of hearts.  They did this quickly.  

We then moved back to the table for a little math lesson on sorting and graphing.  The children counted the different colors found in a conversation heart candy bag, and then sorted them all out by their different colors.  The children were making observations while sorting.  They could quickly tell that there were a lot of green hearts.  They were very engaged with this activity.  I was impressed with how hard they all worked on the task at hand.  Once we sorted the hearts, we counted each color.  

After our sorting and counting, we used our data to create a graph.  We talked about what color we have the most of, the least, and which colors were in the middle.  

After all their hard work, the kiddos got to sample one of each color heart.  

Finally we moved into circle time where we talked about the Good Samaritan and how he showed love.  We learned a cute rhyme and several songs about "Love".

Heart

I put my hands together,

This is how I start.

I curve my fingers right around,
And I can make a heart!

I then red them a story called  I Love You, Good Night.  In this book the characters compare their love to things like blueberry pancakes, how vines love trees, how boots love splashing in puddles, and like strawberry milkshakes.  So, guess what we made for snack?

Strawberry Milkshakes!

After snack we read another book called Franklin Says I Love You.  This lead us to a discussion of what we can do to show our love to others.  Then the children made gift certificates for their parents, for something they could do to show their love.  This is what they came up with... 

Max said he can show his love to him mom by "Changing Owen's Diaper".

Delainey said she can show her love to her dad by " Playing a game of animal match".

Joseph said he can show his love to his dad by "Helping him cut the grass and giving him lots of hugs".

We had a super fun day at preschool!  

Everyone did FANTASTIC!