This week was the letter “A” at preschool. Baby A was taking a picture of herself,
wearing an Alabama sweatshirt. She drew
a picture of an airplane, and she colored pictures of an astronaut and an
alligator that I printed from the computer.
Baby B found apples and avocados from the grocery store sale
paper. She also thought about “ants”, but
we knew it would be tough to find a picture of ants in a magazine. I remembered seeing fingerprint ants once
upon a time. A quick Pinterest search
reminded me what to do.
The girls were tickled to play with the ink pad, and I let
them use my pen (which is always a big deal to them!) to draw the legs and
faces. [Our ants all had smiling faces,
of course.]
As we were constructing our ants, we talked about them
having three parts to their bodies…
…this led us to think about our book on butterflies and
moths…and our book on bees…both of which detail the parts of an insect’s body…
…that conversation turned to bees and ants both living in
colonies…
...and that morphed into a conversation about the 13
original colonies of the United States.
I think about this all the time, how one thing leads to
another. I just love being able to
follow the girls’ minds and spark their interests. Never underestimate the power of a
preschooler’s brain!
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