Tot Time Preschool Letter S

We've been busy around here lately, in fact I used our letter S preschool week as inspiration for another unit study you can view here. We have spent time exploring Shells, Starfish, Supermarkets, Ships, and had a super sensory experience. See how we learned all about the letter S.

Purposeful Play 

We started the week by having imaginative playtime with our Supermarket Duplo set. 

We also added in our Alphabet Duplo Blocks for added learning fun.

Little B really enjoyed Shopping at the Supermarket, this week.

Sensory Play 

We did it up big this week for Sensory play. I set up our beach(where we live) with families playing in the sand, a boardwalk with kids skateboarding, and of course shells, and a lifeguard.  

You'll notice in the pictures all of the S item's I added to our Sand Sensory play (shovels, signs, scorpions, sea shells, skateboards, and more). The boys have always been huge Playmobile fans.

We spent time reading wonderful books like Rainbow Sea , Sounds of the Wild and In the Ocean. We really enjoy reading as a family. 

Our Sea set up for day 1. included Sharks, Seals, Stingrays, Starfish, Shells, along with a submarine, and Scuba divers. I added a little blue food coloring to the water and a handful of blue glass beads. 

Next we added a little glitter to the sea to make it glisten like it does in real life and we added our Sea Salt, because the sea is salty (where does Salt come from?).

Here is the set up for day 1

All of the boys really enjoyed the Sensory play all week. 

Don't forget to add your Sea Life animals , Shovels, Surfboards and Sign's. 

I labeled the bins on the front, because I am working on Little B's reading skills. Plus I think it is important for children to see words and letters around them in everyday life. Helping them with word/letter recognition. 

Day 2 of Sensory play

Mommy added Sailboats. 

I made these sailboats by filling up 2 plastic containers with water, adding a straw to the middle of each of them, as well as a steering wheel/helm. Then I put them in the freezer overnight. We had a few Pirate ships I could use the wheel from already, like this one here. 

 I took the boats out of the freezer. I cut 2 pieces of card stock into triangles, hole punched them once about 1 inch from the top, and slid the sail onto the straw. 

This was a HUGE hit. The boys loved playing with their ice sailboats (ships).

Even as the ice melted, they played and played. 

Little B writing SAM (Sam was the cashier at the supermarket)

He played with the Squinky Cruise Ship, and all of the Squinky Friends.

I'm not a big liker of plastic toys, however we do love anything miniature in size. You can use anything miniature in so many different educational ways.  

We have almost completed our Letter of the week and Little B has learned so much. 

I have started preparing for the next step in Little B's schooling. We are all very excited. 

If you are looking for more activities for your young one's, I would love for you to check out my Pinterest Board here.

Are you having preschool at home? Do you include Sensory play into your learning? I would love to hear about it, leave a comment or visit me on Facebook so we can chat. 

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