I saw this experiment on Quirky Momma blog and definitely had to try it with my preschool students. They loved this experiment and said the glove was waving at them, so that’s why I titled this blog post this way.

I put 2-3 plastic regular-sized spoons of baking soda in a glass jar. I poured in a small amount of vinegar, about 2-3 teaspoons. I attached the rubber glove over the mouth of the jar and watched to see what happened as the fizz started rising in the jar.

As the students said: The glove is waving at us. It stood straight up on top of the jar.

The week of President’s Day offered a great chance to learn about the current and past U.S. presidents.

We did this penny experiment. Click here to see the experiment about how many drops of water fit on a penny before it spills over the edge. 

We talked about which president is on the penny. Then they experienced coin rubbings by placing the penny underneath their papers and coloring over the top of the paper. They were able to see the face of Abraham Lincoln come through the paper.

As we continue our Community helper themes in the preschool classroom, the students are learning about the Veterinarian.

They set up their own Veterinarian office using stuffed animal dogs. They set out small bowls and dishes to pretend to feed the dogs. They made crates and cages on the shelf for the dogs to sleep. They pretended to examine them.

They are excited for the end of the week when a real veterinarian comes to visit and brings her little dog to show.

The pre-kindergarten class at my school combined their Construction theme with their math lesson to learn their number of the week.

They cut out a dump truck and glued to another piece of paper. Then they cut out small black dots to represent rocks to fill the dump truck. The number of the week was 24, so they had to glue 24 rocks (black dots) either in the back of the dump truck or dumping out on the ground behind the truck.

This activity is a clever way of teaching how many as well as allowing the students to have fun with construction and trucks.

One of my co-workers at school did this art project with her preschool students.

She used black paper and cut out the shape of a tooth. Then she attached the black paper to white paper on the back so that the white paper shows through the cut out section of the black paper.

It looks like a tooth xray.

During Community helpers week in preschool, two days were devoted to the Post Office and mail carriers.

The students talked about mail boxes and how mail is delivered. They learned that each piece of mail must have a stamp and be correctly addressed with the name and full address, including city, state, and zip code. They practiced learning their own addresses.

Then we brought the Post Office lesson into the 21st Century by talking about a faster way to deliver mail: email. The students were very familiar with email and knew that it can be checked on the computer and on the phone.

They even got to send out some emails. Some of the students took turns typing emails on my phone to Susan (retired kindergarten teacher) in Texas and Jenny (and her preschool class) in Australia.

We received replies back from Susan with picture attachments of her horses and a chicken. The students loved seeing those real farm animals. Thank you for taking time out of your day to communicate with my preschool students.

We will wait until tomorrow to see replies from Jenny. We were able to talk about our daytime is her nighttime and our winter is her summer.

This is a great activity to teach mail carriers as community helpers and various ways of sending and receiving mail. It also allows students to learn geography and different cultures.