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One Week of Lessons and Fun – Lace, Vinegar and Books

August 20, 2012 By Lil' Bebe Academy Leave a Comment

Our playschool started Monday the 13th.  The weather here in Lombard, Illinois is still good..not too hot or cold.  It’s  the right climate for many outdoor walks, play, and expeditions.  Until the weather changes, we will do many activities outdoors, including taking our daily walks.  This week they found a cricket and went searching for frogs…..

Our focus this week was getting the children back in a routine.  We all know that they had no regular bedtime, wake up time or even time to focus on learning…but the reality is – fun is over!!  At Lil Bebe Academy we have a schedule of activities and each hour is planned (unless someone gets sick or something).  Anyways this week we talked about how they enjoyed the summer, how to form friendships, who they are (self), and school roles.

Our sentence of the week was  ‘My favorite….belongs……’  Each child had to make up sentences daily using these words.  Our arts and craft were sewing and pasting.  We used foam art to paste on a square foam then we used ribbon to sew around the foam.  The children did not use needles instead they used their fingers – this is a good fine motor skill.  The science activity was using vinegar and baking soda to make a volcano.  We got a lot of oohs and aahs.  Our Friday movie was The Lion King.

Arts n Crafts – Lacing to help their fine motor skills

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See how their finger muscles are working to get this through

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All done

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The outdoors

They found a cricket

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Cricket desperately trying to make a run for it

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With all the commotion you would think this is the real Jiminy Cricket.  They were really into this cricket, or not.

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On our community walk they saw this construction…’Look those are like our toys!! ‘
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The truck that had them talking and counting

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Searching for Frogs..these children are always looking into the bushes for insects and animals

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Science – there can’t be a week long lesson without science

Baking Soda & Vinegar

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Wait for it….wait for it

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Pretty cool right?

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Movie Day…..The Lion King to end the week

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And that is how they have fun at Lil Bebe Academy!

Filed Under: Activities, Creative Learning, Outdoors, Science Tagged With: baking soda, cricket, fine motor skills, insects, lacing, mathematics, Outdoors, Science, vinegar

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