During their young age it is VERY important to work on those fine motor skills that are crucial throughout their development. Each week we work on many fine motor skills whether it's tearing tissue paper, using eye droppers, using paint brushes, markers and crayons, or plastic eggs. The kids are doing great with their fine motor skills as we practice them all week! We are currently seeing how many stickers we can get in our classroom for staying on the rug and doing music, being good listeners, and etc. I am using small stickers to help the hand/eye coordination as well as fine motor skills to put them on our paper. For some it started off to be tricky, but it has improved a lot since we started!
Below are pictures of us working on using eye droppers to create our eye dropper art! We used food coloring mixed with water and coffee filters to work on our squeezing of the eye droppers and then squeezing the food coloring water on to the coffee filters. The kids did great with this task and created awesome art projects too! It took a little while for the kiddos to work the eye droppers, but once they got it they were doing great!
During our Zoo Animals unit we learned about polar bears! We even watched live animal cams at the zoo in San Diego. The kids LOVED seeing the animals move and eat too! We were able to watch the polar bears, apes, koala bears, elephants, panda bears, and the giraffes at the zoo in Colorado Springs! Below is our polar bear art project we did using shaving cream and white school glue mixed together. This created a puffy paint texture to our polar bears once they dried!
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