Preschool Corner ~ The First Drawing
The big excitement of the week was that Kaleb started drawing with PURPOSE this week. He has been tracing the letters and lines over the last few weeks and coloring much more, but has never tried to create something on his own.
The last two weeks have been technology-void in our household {Mommy induced}. That has meant no tv, no Wii, no itouch…nada. Zilcho. Nothing.
As a result, the kids have been drawing and coloring up a storm and creating like crazy. Even though we’ve gone through a full ream of paper, I won’t complain! :)
Here is the result of Kaleb’s drawing and creating. Can you guess what it is?
Did you guess a helicopter? He’s just all excited to hang it on the fridge. :)
Interested in how our workboxes shaped up for the week? During the week I rotated between two different items in each of the boxes. The last box was our ‘special’ box that had he could play with AFTER he had finished his other boxes. Note: this workbox grid is a part of my free preschool planning forms.
We’re still going through the alphabet and reviewing the letters. This week we added F-K to the stack of letters. We continued to use our Grasshopper Preschool Prep Kit {ABC’s and Following Directions} for the gel tracing and letter fishing.
We have some acorns and Kaleb would roll the number die that we have {a 1” block with the number 1 through 6 written on the sides}. When he rolled a number, he tried to identify what number it was and then we worked on counting out that number of acorns using 1:1 correspondence.
Once the counting was finished, we had fun sorting the acorns by size {big/small}, by color and seeing which color we had more of.
Kaleb also had a BLAST participating in our science experiment with us this week. I had to print of his own personal copy of the recording sheet so he could color along with us. Ever since, he’s been asking to ‘do science’. :)
The weather was a little icky at the end of the this week, so on Thursday we played LOTS and lots of games. :)
Next week I’ll have the first half of my do-a-dot pages for you all ~ ready to share. Still working on the last half, but hang in there!
In Our Workboxes
Here are some of the things that were in Kaleb’s workboxes this week.
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21 Comments:
And a beautiful drawing it is =)
By Crisc, At October 1, 2010 at 5:42 AM
Sounds like a great week.
And, I did think 'helicopter' when I first saw the drawing. He did a good job drawing the details!
By Dorie, At October 1, 2010 at 6:54 AM
Kaleb did such a good job on the helicopter! Very impressive! I really love those gel packs for the letters ~ guess I might have to get one of the kits!
By Cindy, At October 1, 2010 at 7:07 AM
What a great helicopter!
By Lori, At October 1, 2010 at 7:12 AM
Love those first sweet little drawings. =)
By Michelle Gibson, At October 1, 2010 at 7:19 AM
ooo totally was going to guess helicopter!! Great job Kaleb!
By Anonymous, At October 1, 2010 at 8:41 AM
Love what you guys are working on! Having a preschooler, 1st grader and a toddler...so having suggestions for the preschooler is so helpful! so glad i found this site!
melis
http://just-starting-out.blogspot.com/
By Melissa N., At October 1, 2010 at 9:23 AM
Great site! My littlest just drew her first drawing this week, too! It was a little person. :-)
By Jen, At October 1, 2010 at 10:13 AM
That helicopter is awesome! I knew what it was right away - go Kaleb! :) I can't wait to see your do-a-dot pages!
By Nicole {tired, need sleep}, At October 1, 2010 at 10:21 AM
He did a great job on his drawing! Thanks for sharing!
By Anissa, At October 1, 2010 at 10:38 AM
That is an awesome helicopter!
By Katie, At October 1, 2010 at 1:41 PM
what a wonderful blog!
I am overseas in the UK and I have just started to homeschool my son so this page is a wonderful find. I am following you and will certainly be back for regular reading!
That is such an impressive helicopter! what a clever little man :D my son managed to paint a wonderful spider the other day which was his first purposeful drawing. it's so wonderful when they reach that stage :) it's all new to me with him being my first born so as you can imagine i'm beaming! :)
Best wishes
Nay x
By Moonangelnay Handmade Blog, At October 1, 2010 at 3:40 PM
His first drawing is precious, and I can definitely tell it is a helicopter!
OK, if you've got Do-A-Dot pages to share I am finally going to get some markers--they've been on my "list" for way too long!
By Susana, At October 1, 2010 at 6:42 PM
I find that creativity in my house goes way up when screen time decreases. Hurray for self-initiated drawings. I hope he continues to enjoy his artistic endeavors. They beat tracing someone else work anyday! :)
By Heather@Cultivated Lives, At October 1, 2010 at 7:40 PM
Yes, I thought it was a helicopter. I think he did a wonderful job.
By kewkew, At October 2, 2010 at 1:31 AM
I love the helicopter!! He did a great job.
By Anonymous, At October 3, 2010 at 2:51 AM
Oh yes, I did see a helicopter before you even said that it was one. He did a great job drawing one.
By Debbie, At October 4, 2010 at 10:54 PM
A excellent drawing!
By Donette, At October 5, 2010 at 10:36 AM
A excellent drawing!
By Donette, At December 15, 2010 at 12:55 PM
Oh yes, I did see a helicopter before you even said that it was one. He did a great job drawing one.
By Debbie, At December 15, 2010 at 12:55 PM
what a wonderful blog!
I am overseas in the UK and I have just started to homeschool my son so this page is a wonderful find. I am following you and will certainly be back for regular reading!
That is such an impressive helicopter! what a clever little man :D my son managed to paint a wonderful spider the other day which was his first purposeful drawing. it's so wonderful when they reach that stage :) it's all new to me with him being my first born so as you can imagine i'm beaming! :)
Best wishes
Nay x
By Moonangelnay Handmade Blog, At December 15, 2010 at 12:55 PM
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