During our Nutrition week in preschool, the students learned about how the body works and why we must eat healthy balanced meals for healthy bodies.

We drew an outline of a body on a big sheet of paper. We drew a small circle in the middle of the chest to represent the heart. Then we drew red lines going from the heart to all other parts of the body. We drew blue lines all over the body going back towards the heart. We explained that the red lines represented the blood moving from the heart to feed the entire body and the blue lines represented the used blood going back to the heart for a fill up.

We talked about all body parts needing a healthy flow of blood to do their jobs in the body. We talked about how healthy foods and good exercise provides for healthy blood flow to keep the body healthy and growing.

March is Nutrition month. During Nutrition theme week in preschool, the students came up with a list of foods for every letter of the alphabet.

Some letters took a great deal of thinking, but we were able to think of foods for every letter except X. We decided to use X as a ‘not healthy’ item on the list. X stood for candy and sweets of which they are allowed to have only a little bit every once in awhile.

Some examples of ABC foods on our list: A is for apple, B is for banana, C is for corn… Try it and see what foods you can come up with.

For Dr. Seuss’ birthday, the preschool students made a simple Cat in the Hat hat to wear for the celebration. I saw this activity on Pinterest and thought it would be easy for the young preschool students to do.

We used a paper plate and cut a rectangle from the middle of it on three sides so that the rectangle was not completely cut out. One side was still attached to the middle of the plate, making a flap.

The students colored red and white stripes on the rectangle then stood it up on top of the plate so it stood straight up when they placed the plate on their heads as a hat.

For our preschool celebration of Dr. Seuss’ birthday, the students made Thing 1 and Thing 2 with their handprints.

I saw this activity on Pinterest and had to plan it for Dr. Seuss day.

The first handprint is in red paint printed upside down with the fingers pointing down to be the Thing’s shirt. The next handprint is in blue with the fingers pointing up. Only paint the fingers blue for the hair and paint the palm of the hand white for the face.

Allow the paint to dry. Paint a face on the white part of the Thing. Write Thing 1 or Thing 2 in black paint on the red handprint.

(The picture below does not show the Thing 1 printed on the red shirt. The red paint was not dry enough at the time of the picture.)

The preschool students focused on the sense of hearing today. They did many activities using their keen sense of hearing.

We sent two students out of the room and had one of those students say something. The class tried to guess who was talking.

The students painted to music. We turned on a CD of music and gave each student blank paper, paintbrushes, and paint. They were instructed to paint as to how the music made them feel. Most of them said fast, upbeat music made them feel happy and energetic while slower music made them feel like moving slower.

During Dr. Seuss week, I made a paper red and white striped hat from the Dr. Seuss books. I traced the letters of some of the sight words on the class word wall. The students had to find each letter to fill in each word. This was another activity to help the preschool students learn and recall their sight words. They enjoyed doing their words another way and learning about Dr. Seuss, too.