They Don't Just Build--They Create!

Preschool offers so many opportunities to learn.  This past week I wanted to let the children be creative and build 3D models of their choice.  We had lots of discussions of what they would build and how much their parents were going to love their creations.  We reviewed pictures of real buildings to see if they could make something similar.  They also spoke among themselves, being polite to pass the glue or hand over a small block that they couldn't reach.  And one by one you would hear a child say, "hey you like mine?"  then you would hear the reply, "yea, I do.  Do you like mine too?"  Each child respected each other's space while they built and even towards the end of the day, each child clearly knew not to touch their friend's creation.  Even our two year old knew how important these beautiful wooden masterpieces were to each child.   That all being said, let's take a tour of our week's preschooling:

Hi, I'm 2 years old.  I love gluing and making projects all the time.  See my cool creation I'm working on?

Thank you Miss Patty and Mr. A for letting me try all kinds of stuff.  

Keep moving along, you won't want to miss all about our creative buildings.

I'm kinda busy here as you can see.  This is very difficult work I'm doing.  I'm 3 years old.  I work hard every day on every preschool project I work on.  

Mr. A and Miss Patty always have something for us to do that is so cool.  


Keep moving along, there's more.

Hi, I'm 3 years old.  If I can just get this one little block to stay, oh great, there it goes.  

So, as I was saying, I'm 3 and I am as busy as any 3 year old can get.  

Miss Patty and Mr. A love me just the same!

Howdy there.  I love building and designing.  I often have to have some quiet time in the block area just so I can build and build and build.  This is what I love to do.  

I'm almost 5 (just a little while longer).  I will be going to kindergarten in a week or so and I know I'm going to miss Mr. A and Miss Patty so much. 

They have opened so many doors for me and let me be "just me". 

Howdy folks.  Ok, I need to start with I'm a big BIG laugher.  Everyone knows this and keeps us all smiling.

I also love love love to build and I am also going to be 5 years old.  I'm lucky though because I get to stay another year with Miss Patty and Mr. A.  

This building project was so very cool.  I love making things like this and showing my mom and dad!

Hold on a moment, now if I can just get this piece to plop right.....there!  Great, done.  

Ok, hello there everyone.  I am almost 4 years old.  I'm a big guy with a big heart.  

I love so many things in preschool, especially riding the big wheels in the front yard, or when we take them to the park.  

This project was very cool too. I hope my mom and dad like it.

Projects were left out to dry over night.  These little ones were so creative and I just loved listening to them talk about what they were doing with their friends. 

How about adding some paint now?

    

Let's document our work.

It's been a great week with these guys.  We not only spent our week building, designing, comparing, and sharing, we also did some preschool work.  Check out some of our work below:

 Well thanks for reading our blog everyone.  I hope it was fun to see the happenings of PattyKakesKidz.  Until next week.