Happy Earth Day!

We are getting ready for Earth Day!  To start off, we talked about Earth and what is looks like.  The children had fun making their very own!  I always love projects like this because as you can see, EVERY classroom made theirs in a different way!  It's so neat to see all the creativity!

Of course throughout the week, we learned about how to take care of our Earth.  Pre-K learned about the "3 R's"- Reduce, Reuse, and Recycle.  Even our 2 year old class did a sorting activity to determine which items we can reuse and which ones we should recycle.

"The Lorax" by Dr. Seuss is a great story for children when we are talking about taking care of Earth and making sure it is not polluted.  One class did an art project to go along with the story.

While recycling is important, at Sunflower Station Preschool, we are big on REUSING!  After all, "one man's trash is a teacher's treasure!"  The children made some recycled art by using shredded up paper to make a tree, circle (our shape of the week) containers and lids to decorate a fish, and odds and ends to make little creatures out of toilet paper rolls.

We also had some great sensory activities going on this week from planting flowers to making oceans in a bottle! 

What a great message for our little guys to take away from this week!  Even though they may be small, there is still a lot that we can all do with just our two hands!

Circles are our shape of the week!  One classroom made a circle collage, including part of their morning snack- a cheerio!

For the letter of the week, several classrooms made "l is for ladybug" and one classroom made their own lollipops!