Preschool: Pairs

We had a fun day of preschool earlier this week.  Our letters for the week are Q and U (because you know Q and U stick together like glue).  My 3 yo is such a girly girl so we had to make a Queen and a Unicorn for the QU pair.  Love it.

She practiced recognizing Q by finding Q and q written on sticky notes that I had hidden around the room.  That was super fun for her!

We read lots of stories about special friends who make great pairs.  Frog and Toad anyone?

And we had a fun sensory bin activity looking for pairs of things.  I put one set of items in foil bin and covered them all in rice.  Then I put a duplicate set of identical items in a clear Tupperware so she would know what she was looking for in the rice bin.  When she found an item in the rice, she paired it up with the item in the Tupperware and made a pair! (Yes, lots of rice to clean up afterwards. Totally worth it).

We also talked about things that go together like salt and pepper, peanut butter and jelly, forks and spoons, and a hammer and nail.

Then we practiced "hammering".  I gave her toothpicks and she hammered them into a piece of florist foam using a meat tenderizer from the kitchen!

                                          

These activities kept her busy for a really long time and she had a lot of fun learning about pairs.