Preschool: R is for Rainbows

The downside of living in an apartment complex is that sickness spreads quickly here. So I helped a neighbor and watched her kids for two hours while her regular babysitter is sick with the flu. However, this meant I had 6 kids for preschool which was interesting but manageable.
After our welcoming song and our ABC songs, I read Minnie's Rainbow. I lost Robert's and Wyatt's attention before the story started and could tell Wesley was getting bored. At the end of this book it gives instructions about how to make a rainbow on your wall with a mirror (which the provided), a jar, a flashlight, and a dark room. So, after the story, everyone went up stairs to see a rainbow. The rainbow was hard to see because it was a small sliver on the wall but was still there and the kids pretended to see it at least. Then they each wanted a turn using the flashlight.

After everyone got a turn, we went down stairs and I blew bubbles since they also have a rainbow effect it to. They kids loved popping the bubbles.

For the final activity they were supposed to make a Rainbow R from notimeforflashcard. But with this many kids, it got simplified a lot. First I had them try to write an R on their paper. Audrey did very well. She drew a circle first, then the line straight down and finally the diagonal. I could tell it was an R. Then I gave everyone stripes of colored paper to make a rainbow.
Wesley, Hailey and Audrey glued all the stripes on. Hannah did most of the stripes while Robert and Wyatt made a mess and threw them on the floor. (Wyatt also colored his lips and the table.)

Hailey was the only one who did her Rainbow in the correct order. I was very impressed.

So, I survived preschool with six kids with very little difficulties but probably don't have enough energy to do that on a regular basis.

Color Review: Rainbow with Fredda Frog

Hailey loves playing with the computer. I found this lesson plan online and we had a good time with it.
We listen to Fredda the Frog go over the colors of the rainbow three times.

Then we colored the cards of the different colored objects. I had Hailey pick out which marker matched with the object. She did real well with yellow and blue.

Hailey wanted me to color some instead of herself. Then to finish it off we watched the video again.

R is for Rainbows

Since Rainbows is kind of hard to explain to a two year old, we started by reading "PowerKids Readers: Nature Books RAINBOWS" by Jacqueline Dwyer. It was simple enough with great pictures that Hailey could point out where the rainbows are.
I got the idea on how to make this rainbow from DTLK. Since I cut and traces the circles out, I wanted Hailey to cut the straps of paper and glue them on to the correct color. Hailey wasn't very interactive today so she wouldn't do a whole lot.

Here is how our rainbows turned out. Hailey did a good job gluing the half circles on.