Here at the Friedberg JCC Early Childhood Center, our favorite way to learn new things is through play! Children learn through play and “exploration” of their environment. Here’s what we did:
Learning Lots of Letters!
Both our Oceanside 3’s and our Merrick/Bellmore Pre-K found out that learning letters can be so much fun! In Oceanside, our 3’s studied the letter “Q” this week. We created some awesome art extension projects such as “Q”-Tip painting and “Q”uarter rubbings. We also read books that highlighted the letter “Q”; Giggle, Giggle, Quack by Doreen Cronin, Mr. Quiet by Roger Hargedues, and The Quilt Story by Tony Johnston.
The Merrick/Bellmore Pre-K celebrated the letter “T” this week! Our coolest art extension project was painting on “T”oast with milk and food coloring. Everyone got to watch as the colors “popped” when we toasted the bread! We also made “T”elephones and ate “T” snacks.
Do you have a favorite activity that helps you learn your letters? Here’s a fun idea from KraftCanada.com
Science is Fun!
Over in Long Beach, Ms. Fran’s class has fun learning science! “Fun learning science?” you may ask. “How is that possible?” Well, here at the JCC we can make everything fun! Ms. Fran helped learn how to churn our own butter! We got to watch as it changed from cream into a yummy, thick spread that we can now eat on our Challah for Shabbat!
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| Shaking the cream to make butter! |
Want to try this at home? Check out these simple instructions from scienceprojectideasforkids.com
We had such a great week learning through play (and exploration) at the JCC! Stay tuned next week to see what we’re doing to celebrate National Reading Month! We can’t wait to share all of our Author Studies and other reading projects with you!
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