Derby Time - Horses

 They're at the starting gate...and they're off!

Look at them go!

Giddyup and Whoa were the key words to a fun game of Derby racing around the track in our room.

 Thanks to Clarie's Aunt who gave us a box full of real horseshoes to handle.


We were able to trace them, lay a path with them, and incorporate them into our music time .

 We talked about horses wearing shoes (they're the only animal that we know to wear shoes of any kind!).











We used three different sizes of horses to sequence from smallest to largest.

Some new vocabulary included, Mare, Foal, and Yearling.

Practicing our scissor skills took place at the writing table and when we "fringed" the "grass" for our water-color horses.

Using cookie cutters, we made horse prints.

Tangrams are geometric-shaped pieces that form pictures when placed together.  This math activity is simple and gives experience to the many different shapes and their dimensions.

Horse week wouldn't be complete without a barn of "My Pretty Ponies" to arrange.

Finally, we spent some time talking about another very important holiday coming up this weekend - Mother's Day!





We decorated cards and make hand-prints on a poem page for our marvelous Moms.

We hope you each have a wonderful Mother's Day and enjoy all the homemade gifts and extra love from your preschoolers.

We really are grateful for all the Moms and Dad's who together, with their children, form our family at Lafayette Academy Preschool.

Thanks for all that you do for us.